Proud to wear my @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social gannet t-shirt today at Bury St Edmunds Pride.
With LGBTQ+ rights diminishing in the UK and elsewhere Pride seems particularly important just now.
Love is love, people are people, be kind. It's not complicated.
Lucy Wright
Worrying news from Mousa in #Shetland with sightings of rat on the island. #Mousa is home to the largest population of European Storm Petrel in the UK, a sparrow sized ground nesting #seabird particularly vulnerable to invasive predators.
@rspbscotland.bsky.social
www.shetnews.co.uk/2026/04/30/w...
www.shetnews.co.uk
The uninhabited island hosts the UK’s largest breeding population of storm petrels
important work continues from this group monitoring HPAI and its downsteam impacts in gannets!
I feel privileged to have made a small contribution to this excellent new paper by @heyjooode.bsky.social showing the effects of the recent HPAI on gannet mortality and predicting population recovery times! #seabirds #science
One of the (many) reasons that I recently left mainstream university life, was that I didn't want the rest of my career to be taken up with marking "work" produced using AI. This is a great article about the challenge...
Rob Thomas
Liam Langley
Liam U. Taylor
It will be 2040 before the Grassholm gannet colony is expected to recover from the effects of HPAI #birdflu (even assuming it isn't hit again by the disease or other threats).
#BirdingWales
Non-breeding birds form a large proportion of #seabird populations, yet they are often overlooked in research & difficult to account for in environmental assessments.
A new #OWSMRF report highlights why this matters & how we can close evidence gaps 👇
jncc.gov.uk/news/new-rep... 🧵
EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Individual acoustic monitoring and colour-ringing yield comparable estimates of male annual survival in a migratory songbird, but differ in breeding season detectability | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Niall H. K. Burton et al | #ornithology 🪶
Julian Hughes
JNCC
Wonderful to work with such a great group of co-authors including
@jwejeglinski.bsky.social @jasonmatth.bsky.social @keithchamer.bsky.social @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social @claudiatapiah.bsky.social @liamlangley1.bsky.social @gannetrocks.bsky.social @lucy-wright.bsky.social
@rspbscience.bsky.social
