Eleanor Gnam
@ejgnam2.bsky.social
PhD candidate studying pre-breeding behavior in Leach's storm-petrels. Mediocre birder. I also like cool pens.
Another #superseabirdsunday and now it's almost the end of the field season... This is a juvenile captured in a burrow who will probably fledge in the next couple of days.
September 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Another #superseabirdsunday and now it's almost the end of the field season... This is a juvenile captured in a burrow who will probably fledge in the next couple of days.
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New study finds river otters 🦦 prey on seabirds across 73 North American islands!
🔹 Otters prefer small burrow-nesting seabirds
🔹 They’ll swim up to 8 km across open water to reach colonies
🔹 Most attacks occur on nearshore islands
Full study: bit.ly/4mhJZCz
🔹 Otters prefer small burrow-nesting seabirds
🔹 They’ll swim up to 8 km across open water to reach colonies
🔹 Most attacks occur on nearshore islands
Full study: bit.ly/4mhJZCz
bit.ly
September 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New study finds river otters 🦦 prey on seabirds across 73 North American islands!
🔹 Otters prefer small burrow-nesting seabirds
🔹 They’ll swim up to 8 km across open water to reach colonies
🔹 Most attacks occur on nearshore islands
Full study: bit.ly/4mhJZCz
🔹 Otters prefer small burrow-nesting seabirds
🔹 They’ll swim up to 8 km across open water to reach colonies
🔹 Most attacks occur on nearshore islands
Full study: bit.ly/4mhJZCz
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Vote for the Subantarctic skua in this year's Bird of the Year www.birdoftheyear.org.nz/subantarctic... #teamskua #seabirds 🌍
Vote for Subantarctic skua in this years Bird of the Year
Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year recognises our unique birds and with each vote you give them a voice.
www.birdoftheyear.org.nz
September 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Vote for the Subantarctic skua in this year's Bird of the Year www.birdoftheyear.org.nz/subantarctic... #teamskua #seabirds 🌍
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🚨 Gull Drama
Seagulls - love em? Hate em? Shoot em? All of the above?
😇/😈
Our original paper about gulls in the Gulf of Maine in Cons Biol:
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Reply: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Rejoinder: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Don't hesitate to DM to chat, or for PDFs!
Seagulls - love em? Hate em? Shoot em? All of the above?
😇/😈
Our original paper about gulls in the Gulf of Maine in Cons Biol:
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Reply: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Rejoinder: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Don't hesitate to DM to chat, or for PDFs!
Interspecies conflict, precarious reasoning, and the gull problem in the Gulf of Maine
Contemporary conservation science requires mediating conflicts among nonhuman species, but the grounds for favoring one species over another can be unclear. We examined the premises through which wil....
doi.org
September 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
🚨 Gull Drama
Seagulls - love em? Hate em? Shoot em? All of the above?
😇/😈
Our original paper about gulls in the Gulf of Maine in Cons Biol:
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Reply: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Rejoinder: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Don't hesitate to DM to chat, or for PDFs!
Seagulls - love em? Hate em? Shoot em? All of the above?
😇/😈
Our original paper about gulls in the Gulf of Maine in Cons Biol:
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Reply: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Rejoinder: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Don't hesitate to DM to chat, or for PDFs!
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#SuperSeabirdSunday
An unusual one from yesterday.
A herring gull enjoying a slice of pizza at the beachfront restaurant.
An unusual one from yesterday.
A herring gull enjoying a slice of pizza at the beachfront restaurant.
September 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
#SuperSeabirdSunday
An unusual one from yesterday.
A herring gull enjoying a slice of pizza at the beachfront restaurant.
An unusual one from yesterday.
A herring gull enjoying a slice of pizza at the beachfront restaurant.
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Providence Petrel defending its burrow to all comers at the world’s 2nd only breeding island, Red Knoll, Phillip Island Norfolk. #SuperSeabirdSunday#Seabirds🪶
July 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Providence Petrel defending its burrow to all comers at the world’s 2nd only breeding island, Red Knoll, Phillip Island Norfolk. #SuperSeabirdSunday#Seabirds🪶
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How about a gorgeous Imm Belchers Gull photographed in Peru for #SuperSeabirdSunday
May 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
How about a gorgeous Imm Belchers Gull photographed in Peru for #SuperSeabirdSunday
It's #superseabirdsunday and our Newfoundland field season has just begun! A razorbill and some other alcids on Great Island, Witless Bay (NL).
May 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It's #superseabirdsunday and our Newfoundland field season has just begun! A razorbill and some other alcids on Great Island, Witless Bay (NL).
Happy national puffin day to the best alcid, the razorbill (it's been a great week already for terrorizing everyone with my binocular photography)
April 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Happy national puffin day to the best alcid, the razorbill (it's been a great week already for terrorizing everyone with my binocular photography)
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A peculiar male petrel (and Storm-petrel) habit is the courtship growl- I’ve often heard it from burrows but didn’t realise it involved inflation of the throat. Some species can have a very low register for their body size. Here a White-necked Petrel gives it his all. #SuperSeabirdSunday🪶
April 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A peculiar male petrel (and Storm-petrel) habit is the courtship growl- I’ve often heard it from burrows but didn’t realise it involved inflation of the throat. Some species can have a very low register for their body size. Here a White-necked Petrel gives it his all. #SuperSeabirdSunday🪶
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Splicing DNA sequenced from Rev. Thomas Bayes's crypt into a wolf embryo to make Canis parameterensis, the priorwolf
splicing random eDNA from a peat bog into a wolf to make canis sphagnumis, or the quagmire wolf
Splicing pipeweed DNA into wolves to make canis hobbitus, or the shire wolf.
April 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Splicing DNA sequenced from Rev. Thomas Bayes's crypt into a wolf embryo to make Canis parameterensis, the priorwolf
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Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution; a pair of Razorbills on the cliff ledges #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds
April 6, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution; a pair of Razorbills on the cliff ledges #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds
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A Yellow-legged Gull from Fuerteventura last week for #SuperSeabirdSunday
March 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
A Yellow-legged Gull from Fuerteventura last week for #SuperSeabirdSunday
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Kermadec Petrel ‘606’ has done a great job as a first-time parent on Phillip Island, Norfolk. However, nest placement means every blowy day is a bad-hair-day! #SuperSeabirdSunday#Seabirds🪶
March 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Kermadec Petrel ‘606’ has done a great job as a first-time parent on Phillip Island, Norfolk. However, nest placement means every blowy day is a bad-hair-day! #SuperSeabirdSunday#Seabirds🪶
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Just wonderful :)
Wilson's storm petrels, feeding in shallow waters (on amphipods, I think). Watch closely to see some fully submerging. This is the second time I've seen them diving. At Melchior Islands. #seabirds
March 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Just wonderful :)
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New preprint on why we should care about young seabirds (a.k.a. juveniles, immatures, subadults, prebreeders)
that you!☝️ might find interesting for marine conservation, future movement ecology studies, life history, etc.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#seabirds #conservation
that you!☝️ might find interesting for marine conservation, future movement ecology studies, life history, etc.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#seabirds #conservation
February 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
New preprint on why we should care about young seabirds (a.k.a. juveniles, immatures, subadults, prebreeders)
that you!☝️ might find interesting for marine conservation, future movement ecology studies, life history, etc.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#seabirds #conservation
that you!☝️ might find interesting for marine conservation, future movement ecology studies, life history, etc.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#seabirds #conservation
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Hello from Crystal Palace Park. A classic face-off this morning: ‘Plesiosaurus’ macrocephalus vs Gallinula chloropus
February 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Hello from Crystal Palace Park. A classic face-off this morning: ‘Plesiosaurus’ macrocephalus vs Gallinula chloropus
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A calling Yellow-legged Gull for #SuperSeabirdSunday
February 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
A calling Yellow-legged Gull for #SuperSeabirdSunday
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February 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Ross's Gull, Fraserburgh March 2023. #superseabirdsunday
February 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Ross's Gull, Fraserburgh March 2023. #superseabirdsunday
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It’s #SuperSeabirdSunday so here’s one of the best seabirds on the planet. A juvenile Long-tailed Skua showing all the salient ID features.
Sadly, not even a description species in Norfolk now, despite their scarcity. 🤷♂️😬
Photo from BTO.
Sadly, not even a description species in Norfolk now, despite their scarcity. 🤷♂️😬
Photo from BTO.
February 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
It’s #SuperSeabirdSunday so here’s one of the best seabirds on the planet. A juvenile Long-tailed Skua showing all the salient ID features.
Sadly, not even a description species in Norfolk now, despite their scarcity. 🤷♂️😬
Photo from BTO.
Sadly, not even a description species in Norfolk now, despite their scarcity. 🤷♂️😬
Photo from BTO.
Reposted by Eleanor Gnam
Quiet contemplation
#SuperSeabirdSunday
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social
#ukwildlife #seabirds #photography
#SuperSeabirdSunday
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social
#ukwildlife #seabirds #photography
February 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Quiet contemplation
#SuperSeabirdSunday
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social
#ukwildlife #seabirds #photography
#SuperSeabirdSunday
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social
#ukwildlife #seabirds #photography
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February 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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#SuperSeabirdSunday Cormorant in reflective mood, David @steelyseabirder.bsky.social #nebirding #birdsoftheworld
February 2, 2025 at 8:39 AM
#SuperSeabirdSunday Cormorant in reflective mood, David @steelyseabirder.bsky.social #nebirding #birdsoftheworld