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Dr Joanne Morten
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Seabird ecologist interested in #biologging, #migration and foraging behaviour | Marine Science Officer @BirdlifeMarine

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · 17d
BirdLife are hosting a workshop on a project we are leading to identify #KBAs in the Lord Howe Rise and South Tasman Sea region on the 6th Nov at 07:00 UTC.

For more details and registration visit: www.seabirdtracking.org/lord-howe-ri...

#HighSeas #seabirdtracking #Tasman
Lord Howe Rise and South Tasman Sea seabird tracking data call for KBA assessment - Seabird Tracking Database
BirdLife International are leading a project to support efforts to delineate marine Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) in the Lord Howe Rise and South Tasman Sea
www.seabirdtracking.org

Reposted by Brendan J. Godley, Keith C. Hamer, Joanne M. Morten

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Ruth Dunn @ruthedunn.bsky.social · Aug 7
New research led by @alicetrevail.bsky.social combines tracking data to show the value of large marine protected areas in encompassing diverse megafauna movements 🐢

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

@jappliedecology.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social
Photos of a reef manta ray, red-footed booby, and a hawsbill turtles with biologging devices attached to them. The journal logo is also featured, alongside the article title and author list. Some text reads: "Tracking data reveal that very large marine protected areas offer protection for mobile marine megafauna including benthic foragers (turtles), pelagic planktivores (manta ray), and oceanic predators (seabirds)".

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Aug 1
It's Marine Protected Areas Day🌊

MPAs are vital to protect marine habitats & biodiversity

Analysing seabird tracking data led to the designation of NACEs in 2021💙600,000km2 protected & the first high seas MPA identified from tracking data

➡️ www.seabirdtracking.org/case-studies/naces-mpa/

#MPADay
map showing the location of the NACEs MPA and all of the seabird species that use the area.

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Jun 19
Happy #WorldAlbatrossDay 2025!

To celebrate we are highlighting some of the dedicated work of many, that has positively impacted the world’s 22 albatross species

Check out our new blogpost:
➡️ tinyurl.com/yu5x6s8z

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World Albatross Day 2025 ACAP logo

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · May 6
📢New blog is out!

Joshua Coste shares details about his research on Red-footed Booby homing behaviour in the Indian Ocean 🌊

➡️ tinyurl.com/RFB-navigation

Full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

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Nesting Red-footed Booby

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · May 2
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗻𝘀😎

Last year, the EU challenged the UK’s decision to close sandeel fishing in English and Scottish waters of the North Sea.

Sandeels are small, but they’re a key food source for #Puffins, Kittiwakes, and many other seabirds.

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Apr 25
📢Let’s keep protecting penguins and marine ecosystems!

If you want to contribute or request tracking data, check out the Seabird Tracking Database guidelines:

www.seabirdtracking.org/instructions/
Database Instructions - Seabird Tracking Database
Instructions for researchers on how to participate in this extraordinary collaborative project by contributing your tracking data to the Seabird Tracking Database.
www.seabirdtracking.org

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Apr 25
🐧Happy World Penguin Day!

These species offer more than just their charisma! Their study and protection benefit whole ecosystems 🌎

Did you know that...?
🧵👇

#WorldPenguinDay
Picture of a Gentoo penguin in the shore with waves behind and a rainbow on top. Picture by Jonathan Handley.

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Mar 26
Tracking Ascension Island’s seabirds across borders:

Learn how our Darwin+ project will help us understand how seabirds & fisheries overlap in the High Seas 🌊

Led by Ascension Island Gov with @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social, GFW, MMO & @cefasgovuk.bsky.social

www.seabirdtracking.org/tracking-asc...
Tracking Ascension Island's seabirds across borders - Seabird Tracking Database
Protected areas are a vital tool for safeguarding marine wildlife, but seabirds and other marine species often travel beyond these havens.
www.seabirdtracking.org

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Mar 20
📢New blog is out!

@joanne-morten.bsky.social shares details of the collaborative research project to identify marine flyways using seabird tracking data

seabirdtracking.org/delineating-marine-flyways-from-seabird-tracking-data/

Full paper here: doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004
Delineating Marine Flyways from Seabird Tracking Data - Seabird Tracking Database
The detailed methods developed to identify marine flyways from seabird tracking data have been described in a new paper published in Global Ecology and
seabirdtracking.org

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Dr Tammy Davies @tammyedavies.bsky.social · Mar 19
Excited to participate in the MoveBON strategy workshop (led by @smithsonianmag.bsky.social @wildlabs.bsky.social)

Looking forward to sharing the work we do at @birdlifemarine.bsky.social with the #SeabirdTrackingDatabase to support knowledge brokering at the science-policy interface 🧪🐧
The broad themes (community, threats, sites, policy) associated with how seabird tracking data can contribute to global policy frameworks and indicators

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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · Mar 18
Great news for the Critically Endangered African Penguin! 🐧

South Africa has agreed to establish no-fishing zones around six major breeding colonies, a huge victory thanks to the relentless efforts of our National Partner @birdlifesa.bsky.social 🌍💙

Read more: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa
Deal will restrict fishing near colonies on Robben Island and Bird Island for 10 years, after long debate between industry and conservationists
www.theguardian.com

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Dr Tammy Davies @tammyedavies.bsky.social · Feb 17
🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways applying a novel approach onto #seabird #tracking data: doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪

See the short animation via: www.seabirdtracking.org/case-studies... explaining how the marine flyways can be a framework to support #conservation

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Dr Joanne Morten @joanne-morten.bsky.social · Feb 17
So excited that the #MarineFlyways paper is finally out - what an incredible and exciting project to be a part of!
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🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways using #seabird #tracking data & novel analytical methods

➡️ doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004

🧪 #ornithology #migration #BLScience
@birdlifeglobal.bsky.social

We are grateful to GOBI @iki-germany.bsky.social for funding the project

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Infographic map showing the six marine flyways (Atlantic Ocean Flyway, North Indian Ocean Flyway, East Indian Ocean Flyway, West Pacific Ocean Flyway, Pacific Ocean Flyway, Southern Ocean Flyway) in a spilhaus projection, and the general direction of travel by migratory seabirds

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Feb 17
The Seabird Tracking Database seabirdtracking.org provided an opportunity to identify the marine flyways

A MASSIVE THANK YOU 👏to all data contributors, collaborators & GOBI @iki-germany.bsky.social who supported this work

More info, including a beautiful animation ➡️ tinyurl.com/yek8dwt4

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image of the seabird tracking database homepage

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Feb 17
The marine #flyways concept can help coordinate collaborative #conservation efforts for migratory #seabirds, building on the successes of the existing flyways for land and waterbirds

➡️ birdlife.org/europe-and-central-asia/our-work/flyways/

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infographic of the Atlantic Ocean Flyway and the migratory routes of an Arctic Tern and South Polar Skua using the flyway infographic of the North Indian Ocean Flyway and the East Indian Ocean Flyway, and the migratory route of a Barau’s Petrel using the East Indian Flyway infographic of the West Pacific Ocean Flyway and the Pacific Ocean Flyway, and the migratory routes of an Antipodean Albatross and Buller’s Shearwater using the Pacific Ocean Flyway infographic of the Southern Ocean Flyway, and the migratory route of a Grey-headed Albatross using the flyway

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Feb 17
The six marine #flyways cover extensive areas of the world’s oceans and illustrate the broad-scale movements and connectivity of multiple #seabird populations and species during their annual cycle

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photograph of arctic tern in flight

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Feb 17
Tracking data from 48 long-distance pelagic #seabird species, shared by >100 collaborators, were analysed to reveal the consistent & repeatable #migratory routes, including a circumpolar navigation of the Southern Ocean & transhemispheric ‘figures of 8’ in the Pacific & Atlantic oceans

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Figure 1 from the paper showing a world map centred over the Pacific Ocean, with the colony locations of tracked seabirds and the six delineated marine flyways

Reposted by Niels Martin Schmidt, Joanne M. Morten

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Feb 17
🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways using #seabird #tracking data & novel analytical methods

➡️ doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004

🧪 #ornithology #migration #BLScience
@birdlifeglobal.bsky.social

We are grateful to GOBI @iki-germany.bsky.social for funding the project

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Infographic map showing the six marine flyways (Atlantic Ocean Flyway, North Indian Ocean Flyway, East Indian Ocean Flyway, West Pacific Ocean Flyway, Pacific Ocean Flyway, Southern Ocean Flyway) in a spilhaus projection, and the general direction of travel by migratory seabirds