Sarah Gutowsky
halibirdnerd.bsky.social
Sarah Gutowsky
@halibirdnerd.bsky.social
#Wildlife #Biologist with Canadian Wildlife Service #CWS, Environment and Climate Change Canada #ECCC focused on #seabird and #waterbird #conservation status and #trends.
Views are my own. She/Her.
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I guess it's time to introduce myself! I'm Sarah Gutowsky, a #Quantitative #Wildlife #Biologist with #Environment and #ClimateChange Canada, based in #Halifax, #NovaScotia.

My specialty is #seabird and #waterbird #ecology - I help to monitor and assess the status and trends of #birds in #Canada!
#motmot

Need I say more?

My fav group from #costarica, we managed to find 3 species: turquoise-browed, lesson's & broad-billed.
March 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
1st time on a non-work #birding trip and 1st time in #CostaRica has been a dream come true, including delivering this mega #lifer today along with >100 others so far! the thriving #ecotourism here gives me hope for the world...
February 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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naturecounts.ca/nc/socb-epoc... In case you missed it last Fall when this was released. I'd never posted it here before. Super informative: pick your fave species and see how it has been trending.
The State of Canada’s Birds Report
Canada’s birds have stories to tell. See how they are doing, how their populations have changed, and what you can do to help.
naturecounts.ca
January 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Hey bird people! Join us in Saskatoon for SCO-SOC 2025 Conference in Aug 13-16. Symposia and workshop submissions are open now until Jan 31!

conferences.usask.ca/sco-2025/ind...
January 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Ok #superseabirdsunday, I'll play! Here are some northern #fulmars doing what they do best at the flow edge of Admiralty Inlet in #Nunavut #Arctic #Canada
February 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Really important read about the extinction of experience among ecologists - and the barriers to doing fieldwork - both in teaching & research. @kevinjgaston.bsky.social Likely to hinder our efforts to address the biodiversity crisis doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 🌏🧪
January 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Looking for a #bird related volunteer opportunity to kick off 2025? Help us count our #fulmar survey photos to update our population estimates! Email me if you're interested.
#seabirds
#conservation
#arctic
January 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New article from Davidson et al. explains the need and pathways for improving tracking data archiving and sharing tools @movebank.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Animal-borne electronic tags, or bio-loggers, are increasingly used for research and wildlife conservation. This Perspective discusses the importance of standardization, long-term archiving and sharin...
www.nature.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Using model-based distance sampling to estimate decadal population change in Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) across periods spanned by different at-sea survey methods | onlinelibrary.wiley....

T.J. Clark-Wolf et al | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
January 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Where are all the field studies?

This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.

A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Extinction of experience among ecologists
Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the ecology community, as it could have widespread consequences for science and education, ultimately hindering efforts to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis.
www.cell.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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New in #BirdStudy
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.

Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
January 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I guess it's time to introduce myself! I'm Sarah Gutowsky, a #Quantitative #Wildlife #Biologist with #Environment and #ClimateChange Canada, based in #Halifax, #NovaScotia.

My specialty is #seabird and #waterbird #ecology - I help to monitor and assess the status and trends of #birds in #Canada!
January 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM