We focus on the benefits to #seabirds of keeping #islands free of invasive non-native mammalian predators but removing invasive predators from islands or ideally using #biosecurity to prevent them reaching islands in the 1st place benefits the entire #ecosystem
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
For decades, researchers have measured #PlasticPollution by counting individual pieces. But those numbers don’t tell the whole story: internal damage caused by plastic (eg. inflammation) is largely invisible
Cis folks - this is what I mean when I say allyship is having skin in the game.
www.sciencedirect.com
In long-lived socially monogamous animals, pair bonds play a crucial role in breeding success. In many predominantly socially monogamous animals, howe…
Laurianne has joined our Leach's Storm-petrel research team! This summer she is conducting field research on Kent Island. In September she will begin a Master's degree, co-supervised by myself and Dr. Ingrid Pollet. Welcome to our team Laurianne!
@ingridpollet.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social
Biosecurity for LIFE
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
For our new study of acoustic communication in Leach's Storm-petrels, Laurianne and I deployed Song Meters at the entrances of birds nests to sample their vocal behaviour during incubation. A collaboration with Ingrid Pollet @ingridpollet.bsky.social, Patty Jones, and an A+ group of colleagues.
Adrift Lab (Marine Science)
Dr Ingrid Pollet
Dr Ingrid Pollet
Dan Mennill
THE CHAFF PROJECT
Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!
How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.
Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.
Dr Alex Bond
Dan Mennill
Finally published, is the outcome of surveys and HPAI detections in skua species in 2024/25. Detections as far south as Marguarite Bay.
👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
