Alice Edney
@aliceedney.bsky.social
Seabird Ecologist at @n-t-s.bsky.social | Treasurer of The Seabird Group | Enjoys birds, nature, & outdoor adventures 🐣🌊⛰️ | she/her
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(PDF) The first drone census of the Gannet colony on St Kilda, 2023
PDF | An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (hereafter drone) survey of Gannets at St Kilda was carried out in June 2023. The survey was the first census at St... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
www.researchgate.net
The first drone census of the St Kilda gannet colony is now published in Scottish Birds!
We counted 59,205 AOS in 2023 - similar to previous years. The overall impact of #HPAI appears less than at some other colonies, with notable declines in flatter areas 🧮
#ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds
We counted 59,205 AOS in 2023 - similar to previous years. The overall impact of #HPAI appears less than at some other colonies, with notable declines in flatter areas 🧮
#ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds
Reposted by Alice Edney
We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project.
Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
January 5, 2026 at 10:09 AM
We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project.
Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
Reposted by Alice Edney
Out now in ‘Evolutionary applications’, the last chapter of Anna’s PhD thesis, in which she used whole genome sequencing data of contemporary and historic European gull-billed terns to assess whether the population decline in part of their range has had genetic consequences: doi.org/10.1111/eva....
January 5, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Out now in ‘Evolutionary applications’, the last chapter of Anna’s PhD thesis, in which she used whole genome sequencing data of contemporary and historic European gull-billed terns to assess whether the population decline in part of their range has had genetic consequences: doi.org/10.1111/eva....
Reposted by Alice Edney
Grab a cuppa and read our Seabird Poo comic! ➡️ http://www.bto.org/S... ☕📖
Discover how seabird scientists collected bird poo and analysed its DNA contents to determine the types of prey consumed by Shags and Kittiwakes! 😮 #Ornithology
✏️ Illustrations by Anna Dupont-Crabtree
Discover how seabird scientists collected bird poo and analysed its DNA contents to determine the types of prey consumed by Shags and Kittiwakes! 😮 #Ornithology
✏️ Illustrations by Anna Dupont-Crabtree
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Grab a cuppa and read our Seabird Poo comic! ➡️ http://www.bto.org/S... ☕📖
Discover how seabird scientists collected bird poo and analysed its DNA contents to determine the types of prey consumed by Shags and Kittiwakes! 😮 #Ornithology
✏️ Illustrations by Anna Dupont-Crabtree
Discover how seabird scientists collected bird poo and analysed its DNA contents to determine the types of prey consumed by Shags and Kittiwakes! 😮 #Ornithology
✏️ Illustrations by Anna Dupont-Crabtree
Reposted by Alice Edney
New Year, new job. Come and join the @ukceh.bsky.social team on the Isle of May
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...
Avian Ecologist
Salary - £31,942 - £33,898 Depending on experience Hybrid working (50/50) Location: Edinburgh Closing date: 16th January 2026 We are looking for an enthusiastic Avian Ecologist to join our team in Edi...
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
New Year, new job. Come and join the @ukceh.bsky.social team on the Isle of May
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...
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Fantastic to see this outcome of Francis’ internship at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk being out now
Increased foraging effort in poor-food years is related to nutritional state (fat metabolism) in Peruvian Boobies
#seabirds #ornithology
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
Increased foraging effort in poor-food years is related to nutritional state (fat metabolism) in Peruvian Boobies
#seabirds #ornithology
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Fantastic to see this outcome of Francis’ internship at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk being out now
Increased foraging effort in poor-food years is related to nutritional state (fat metabolism) in Peruvian Boobies
#seabirds #ornithology
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
Increased foraging effort in poor-food years is related to nutritional state (fat metabolism) in Peruvian Boobies
#seabirds #ornithology
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
Reposted by Alice Edney
New large-scale study based on SEAPOP data shows that #ocean #warming threatens #seabirds in the North Atlantic
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
Ocean warming threatens seabirds in the North Atlantic
Climate change is causing ocean warming, acidification and loss of sea ice. This, in turn, is leading to shifting biogeographic distribution and in some cases species extinction.
seapop.no
December 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
New large-scale study based on SEAPOP data shows that #ocean #warming threatens #seabirds in the North Atlantic
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
The first drone census of the St Kilda gannet colony is now published in Scottish Birds!
We counted 59,205 AOS in 2023 - similar to previous years. The overall impact of #HPAI appears less than at some other colonies, with notable declines in flatter areas 🧮
#ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds
We counted 59,205 AOS in 2023 - similar to previous years. The overall impact of #HPAI appears less than at some other colonies, with notable declines in flatter areas 🧮
#ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds
(PDF) The first drone census of the Gannet colony on St Kilda, 2023
PDF | An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (hereafter drone) survey of Gannets at St Kilda was carried out in June 2023. The survey was the first census at St... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
www.researchgate.net
December 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The first drone census of the St Kilda gannet colony is now published in Scottish Birds!
We counted 59,205 AOS in 2023 - similar to previous years. The overall impact of #HPAI appears less than at some other colonies, with notable declines in flatter areas 🧮
#ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds
We counted 59,205 AOS in 2023 - similar to previous years. The overall impact of #HPAI appears less than at some other colonies, with notable declines in flatter areas 🧮
#ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds
Reposted by Alice Edney
Can GPS tracking reveal how #seabirds make use of tidal mixing fronts when foraging? 🧪
New research shows a bird’s use of ocean fronts may relate to its regular foraging areas
Read on for more
Or read the full paper: doi.org/10.1007/s002...
@ellingbry.bsky.social
New research shows a bird’s use of ocean fronts may relate to its regular foraging areas
Read on for more
Or read the full paper: doi.org/10.1007/s002...
@ellingbry.bsky.social
Fine-scale behavioural responses to mixing fronts are linked to variation in geographic space use in a medium ranging seabird - Marine Biology
Marine predators forage in dynamic, heterogeneous environments, where resources are unevenly distributed. Consequently, predators often concentrate foraging activity in areas where oceanographic proce...
doi.org
December 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Can GPS tracking reveal how #seabirds make use of tidal mixing fronts when foraging? 🧪
New research shows a bird’s use of ocean fronts may relate to its regular foraging areas
Read on for more
Or read the full paper: doi.org/10.1007/s002...
@ellingbry.bsky.social
New research shows a bird’s use of ocean fronts may relate to its regular foraging areas
Read on for more
Or read the full paper: doi.org/10.1007/s002...
@ellingbry.bsky.social
Reposted by Alice Edney
Such a cool bird to be included in our chiffchaff genomics project ☺️ very exciting!
Super excited to have caught a Belgian ringed chiffchaff in Chesire this morning!! 🇧🇪 🗺
Looking forward to learning more about where & when it was ringed 📍
@btobirds.bsky.social #birdringing
Looking forward to learning more about where & when it was ringed 📍
@btobirds.bsky.social #birdringing
December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Such a cool bird to be included in our chiffchaff genomics project ☺️ very exciting!
Super excited to have caught a Belgian ringed chiffchaff in Chesire this morning!! 🇧🇪 🗺
Looking forward to learning more about where & when it was ringed 📍
@btobirds.bsky.social #birdringing
Looking forward to learning more about where & when it was ringed 📍
@btobirds.bsky.social #birdringing
December 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Super excited to have caught a Belgian ringed chiffchaff in Chesire this morning!! 🇧🇪 🗺
Looking forward to learning more about where & when it was ringed 📍
@btobirds.bsky.social #birdringing
Looking forward to learning more about where & when it was ringed 📍
@btobirds.bsky.social #birdringing
Reposted by Alice Edney
New #OpenAccess in #BirdStudy
When and how to automate image analysis for wildlife monitoring? Guidelines and lessons from a worked example of seabirds in a dynamic coastal environment (Carrington et al.): doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
When and how to automate image analysis for wildlife monitoring? Guidelines and lessons from a worked example of seabirds in a dynamic coastal environment (Carrington et al.): doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
December 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
New #OpenAccess in #BirdStudy
When and how to automate image analysis for wildlife monitoring? Guidelines and lessons from a worked example of seabirds in a dynamic coastal environment (Carrington et al.): doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
When and how to automate image analysis for wildlife monitoring? Guidelines and lessons from a worked example of seabirds in a dynamic coastal environment (Carrington et al.): doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
Reposted by Alice Edney
Coming to the end of your studies and thinking about career options? We've got another exciting ECR talk lined up, this time on #Seabird Careers 🦢💼
📆 Fri 12 December
🕥 9.30 - 11 am (UK)
📍 Online
Sign up HERE to attend ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
And stay tuned for who's on our panel! 👀
📆 Fri 12 December
🕥 9.30 - 11 am (UK)
📍 Online
Sign up HERE to attend ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
And stay tuned for who's on our panel! 👀
![Two people wearing coloured coats, sitting on a cliff overlooking the sea. They are using binoculars to watch birds in the distance. [Photo: Danni Thompson]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wvb4iczed4vztwh6wsn5fsb2/bafkreic7uzxotmlxo2s2bq2q7zmod45jchkupz3ohzmspzmz3ro7zc72w4@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Coming to the end of your studies and thinking about career options? We've got another exciting ECR talk lined up, this time on #Seabird Careers 🦢💼
📆 Fri 12 December
🕥 9.30 - 11 am (UK)
📍 Online
Sign up HERE to attend ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
And stay tuned for who's on our panel! 👀
📆 Fri 12 December
🕥 9.30 - 11 am (UK)
📍 Online
Sign up HERE to attend ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
And stay tuned for who's on our panel! 👀
Reposted by Alice Edney
The Seabird Tracking Database has been updated!
With lots of new features, these updates improve user experience and ensure dataset legacy
To learn more visit
➡️ seabirdtracking.org/seabird-trac...
and go to data.seabirdtracking.org to try out the new search and mapping features!
With lots of new features, these updates improve user experience and ensure dataset legacy
To learn more visit
➡️ seabirdtracking.org/seabird-trac...
and go to data.seabirdtracking.org to try out the new search and mapping features!
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Seabird Tracking Database has been updated!
With lots of new features, these updates improve user experience and ensure dataset legacy
To learn more visit
➡️ seabirdtracking.org/seabird-trac...
and go to data.seabirdtracking.org to try out the new search and mapping features!
With lots of new features, these updates improve user experience and ensure dataset legacy
To learn more visit
➡️ seabirdtracking.org/seabird-trac...
and go to data.seabirdtracking.org to try out the new search and mapping features!
Reposted by Alice Edney
Another piece of research from team #Shag on Sklinna. Strongly recommended for all researchers working with #biologging data
#biologging #research is booming - but do #loggers actually impact the birds? Yes, they do - depending on the mass and attachment location. If you work with biologging, you should read our latest publication seapop.no/en/2025/11/l...
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social #seabirds
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social #seabirds
Loggers attached to birds can affect foraging behaviour
Loggers have become a central part of research on seabirds and other groups of animals over the past 20 years. In seabird research, loggers provide very useful documentation of diving behaviour…
seapop.no
November 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Another piece of research from team #Shag on Sklinna. Strongly recommended for all researchers working with #biologging data
Reposted by Alice Edney
🪿"Moving to colder areas allows arctic geese to reduce negative effects of climate change (trophic mismatch), but this comes at a price for parents as they face harsher nesting conditions, which only parents capable of large investments can cope with"
➡️ buff.ly/vx6i1ic
➡️ buff.ly/vx6i1ic
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🪿"Moving to colder areas allows arctic geese to reduce negative effects of climate change (trophic mismatch), but this comes at a price for parents as they face harsher nesting conditions, which only parents capable of large investments can cope with"
➡️ buff.ly/vx6i1ic
➡️ buff.ly/vx6i1ic
Reposted by Alice Edney
More work linking irregular iris pigmentation in gannets to prior HPAI infections: likelihood of NP antibody increased with iris pigment irregularity. Moderate correlations for H5 antibodies.
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
More work linking irregular iris pigmentation in gannets to prior HPAI infections: likelihood of NP antibody increased with iris pigment irregularity. Moderate correlations for H5 antibodies.
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Alice Edney
Our final speaker for session 3 is Joe Wynn bringing us “Whole-genome resequencing reveals the origin of a rapidly emerging ‘reverse’ songbird migration” 🐦🧬
@joewynnbirds.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology
@joewynnbirds.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Our final speaker for session 3 is Joe Wynn bringing us “Whole-genome resequencing reveals the origin of a rapidly emerging ‘reverse’ songbird migration” 🐦🧬
@joewynnbirds.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology
@joewynnbirds.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology
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#Seabirds at risk: Common Guillemots concentrate for moulting where wind farms are planned in the German North Sea: see latest aerial suveys by #DDA in September 2025: www.dda-web.de/downloads/ma...
November 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
#Seabirds at risk: Common Guillemots concentrate for moulting where wind farms are planned in the German North Sea: see latest aerial suveys by #DDA in September 2025: www.dda-web.de/downloads/ma...
Reposted by Alice Edney
My first PhD paper is now out! We calculate overlap intensity between African penguins and the local purse seine fishery 🐧🐟
Check it out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Check it out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Spatial overlap alone downplays the level of interaction between a central place forager and the local fishery
While spatial overlap is commonly used to quantify interactions, it may underestimate the true degree of competition between foraging predators and fishing vessels. Our alternative population-level m...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
My first PhD paper is now out! We calculate overlap intensity between African penguins and the local purse seine fishery 🐧🐟
Check it out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Check it out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Alice Edney
Needing to model impacts on seabird populations in Northwest Europe?
Not sure where to find useful values for demographic variables?
Look no further! In this new paper, we provide model-derived values for age-specific survival of 25 species.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Not sure where to find useful values for demographic variables?
Look no further! In this new paper, we provide model-derived values for age-specific survival of 25 species.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Demography of marine birds in the Northeast Atlantic: Informed parameter values for population modelling
We developed matrix population models for 54 regional populations of 25 marine bird species in the north-east Atlantic, based on 30 years of monitoring data. In Step 1, we parameterised the models wi...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Needing to model impacts on seabird populations in Northwest Europe?
Not sure where to find useful values for demographic variables?
Look no further! In this new paper, we provide model-derived values for age-specific survival of 25 species.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Not sure where to find useful values for demographic variables?
Look no further! In this new paper, we provide model-derived values for age-specific survival of 25 species.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Alice Edney
Super excited to share the first paper from my PhD! 🎉
We found that rivers don’t just matter for wetland birds - they also help support terrestrial insectivores, thanks to the flow of energy and nutrients from aquatic insects. 🌊🦟
Read more here: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We found that rivers don’t just matter for wetland birds - they also help support terrestrial insectivores, thanks to the flow of energy and nutrients from aquatic insects. 🌊🦟
Read more here: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cross-system transfer of fatty acids from aquatic insects supports terrestrial insectivore condition and reproductive success - Oecologia
Cross-system fluxes of aquatic insects rich in omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω-3 LC-PUFAs), specifically eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), may subsidise ins...
link.springer.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Super excited to share the first paper from my PhD! 🎉
We found that rivers don’t just matter for wetland birds - they also help support terrestrial insectivores, thanks to the flow of energy and nutrients from aquatic insects. 🌊🦟
Read more here: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We found that rivers don’t just matter for wetland birds - they also help support terrestrial insectivores, thanks to the flow of energy and nutrients from aquatic insects. 🌊🦟
Read more here: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Alice Edney
It's tomorrow! Remember to join us at 12 midday (GMT)
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It's tomorrow! Remember to join us at 12 midday (GMT)
Reposted by Alice Edney
New study on factors influencing collisions of Red Kite Milvus milvus with wind turbines: findings suggest that turbines with rotor diameters <90m and clearances > 60m may pose a lower relative threat to Red Kites. Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
New study on factors influencing collisions of Red Kite Milvus milvus with wind turbines: findings suggest that turbines with rotor diameters <90m and clearances > 60m may pose a lower relative threat to Red Kites. Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Reposted by Alice Edney
If you're a Seabird Group member, remember to check your inbox for the link to join our #AGM next Weds (12th Nov) at 12 noon 📅🕊️ Come along and hear what we've been working on this past year.
You can also vote for the incoming Executive Committee members using the link in the email! 👥🗳️
#seabirds
You can also vote for the incoming Executive Committee members using the link in the email! 👥🗳️
#seabirds
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reposted by Alice Edney
Out now in Behavioral Ecology.
We built weigh bridges that allow us automatically to track the energetics of a sensitive, nocturnal seabird. We show how these devices can help answer fundamental questions about parental care.
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
We built weigh bridges that allow us automatically to track the energetics of a sensitive, nocturnal seabird. We show how these devices can help answer fundamental questions about parental care.
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
November 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Out now in Behavioral Ecology.
We built weigh bridges that allow us automatically to track the energetics of a sensitive, nocturnal seabird. We show how these devices can help answer fundamental questions about parental care.
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
We built weigh bridges that allow us automatically to track the energetics of a sensitive, nocturnal seabird. We show how these devices can help answer fundamental questions about parental care.
doi.org/10.1093/behe...