Updates from BirdLife International Marine Programme - @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social & @rspb.bsky.social - on our work saving seabirds & marine wildlife across the globe.
BirdLife Marine
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We are looking for Marine Sites Science Officer to support our Marine Programme by analysing seabird tracking data to identify important areas
⏱️Deadline: 03/07/2026
🐧Fixed term 2 years, 35 hrs/pw
📌Cambridge/ Hybrid
Come join our fantastic team!
Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/marinesitesj...
Today is #WorldOceanDay ! 🌊
Seabirds navigate vast, predictable marine flyways – superhighways in the sky – across the open ocean, linking nations, ecosystems and hemispheres.🌏
Six marine flyways are used by more than 150 migratory seabird species.🗺️📍
Find out more👉 www.seabirdtracking.org
🧪 #albatross & #petrel conservation - 2026 #ACAP #seabird meeting this week & next in #Namibia Research updates on heavy hooks, LEDs & line weighting, tracking studies & #fishery overlap +++ #bycatch See www.bmis-bycatch.org/references?s...
📖 New Policy Direction
Using the marine flyways concept to accelerate ocean conservation🌍
This paper identifies 151 migratory and pelagic seabird species that use all or part of the marine flyways, of which almost half are globally threatened 🕊️
🔎 buff.ly/HBA61VN
Beyond protected areas: where Juan Fernández Petrels meet global fisheries 🎣
Our latest blog post by @tommyclay.bsky.social and Michael Brooke
➡️ www.seabirdtracking.org/beyond-prote...
full paper ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/0158...
Beyond protected areas: where Juan Fernández Petrels meet global fisheries 🎣
Our latest blog post by @tommyclay.bsky.social and Michael Brooke
➡️ www.seabirdtracking.org/beyond-prote...
full paper ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/0158...
Long-term time-depth recorder dataset reveals individual energetics as a crucial link between sea-ice dynamics and Adélie penguin reproductive success 🐧❄️
Our latest blog post by @bendps.org
➡️ tinyurl.com/STDBblogMay26
full paper ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1365...
New blog post by BirdLife Senior Policy Advisor Aline Kühl-Stenzel
Aline details seabird conservation successes at #CMSCOP15 and what's next after the successful adoption of the marine flyways and seabird resolution
➡️ tinyurl.com/STDBblogApr26
Latest marine flyways paper ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1365...
If you missed our latest paper in @animalecology.bsky.social, we just published a blog post in @birdlifemarine.bsky.social to summarize its main findings! 🐧
Safeguarding Fiji’s elusive seabirds!🏝️
Fiji’s Gau Island hosts two Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas, with communities engaged in protecting the seabirds that live there – Collared Petrel and perhaps the mysterious Fiji Petrel…🐦
Read the full article here 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2026/05...
We are looking for a Marine Sites Science Officer to support the implementation and progression of BirdLife’s Marine Programme.
Long-term time-depth recorder dataset reveals individual energetics as a crucial link between sea-ice dynamics and Adélie penguin reproductive success 🐧❄️
Our latest blog post by @bendps.org
➡️ tinyurl.com/STDBblogMay26
full paper ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1365...