Dr A.M.T. Labbé
@amtlabbe.bsky.social
Marine ornithologist. Southern Hemisphere. 🇦🇺🇷🇪🇲🇫
WASCN- Western Australian Seabird Conservation Network Inc.
WASCN- Western Australian Seabird Conservation Network Inc.
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#Glyphosate - how much damage done in those 25 years, to #PublicHealth and #biodiversity.
We have to stop this #pesticide merry-go-round of new-wonder-chemical, concerns, then obvious disaster.
We need #agroecology
www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
We have to stop this #pesticide merry-go-round of new-wonder-chemical, concerns, then obvious disaster.
We need #agroecology
www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
A 2000 study that concluded the well-known herbicide glyphosate was safe, widely cited since then, has just been officially disavowed by the journal that published it. The scientists are suspected of ...
www.lemonde.fr
December 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
#Glyphosate - how much damage done in those 25 years, to #PublicHealth and #biodiversity.
We have to stop this #pesticide merry-go-round of new-wonder-chemical, concerns, then obvious disaster.
We need #agroecology
www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
We have to stop this #pesticide merry-go-round of new-wonder-chemical, concerns, then obvious disaster.
We need #agroecology
www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
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PSA!!!!!! 🚨
White tern chick!!!!!! 🪶
White tern chick!!!!!! 🪶
December 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
PSA!!!!!! 🚨
White tern chick!!!!!! 🪶
White tern chick!!!!!! 🪶
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Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
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#CriticallyEndangered Penguins (Spheniscus demersus) 🐧 vs. Fisheries in South Africa 🇿🇦
- Penguins lose 🌍
#Birds #Ornithology #MarineEcology
phys.org/news/2025-11...
- Penguins lose 🌍
#Birds #Ornithology #MarineEcology
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Species in crisis: Critically endangered penguins are directly competing with fishing boats
A new study led by the University of St Andrews has found that critically endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) are significantly more likely to forage in the same areas as commercial fish...
phys.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
#CriticallyEndangered Penguins (Spheniscus demersus) 🐧 vs. Fisheries in South Africa 🇿🇦
- Penguins lose 🌍
#Birds #Ornithology #MarineEcology
phys.org/news/2025-11...
- Penguins lose 🌍
#Birds #Ornithology #MarineEcology
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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Honestly, when will unis and other research orgs collectively say enough is enough, and invoice them for all our unpaid labour that drives publishers MASSIVE profits?
The Money in Scientific Publishing danielroelfs.com/posts/the-mo... @danielroelfs.com
#KnowledgeSlavery
The Money in Scientific Publishing danielroelfs.com/posts/the-mo... @danielroelfs.com
#KnowledgeSlavery
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Honestly, when will unis and other research orgs collectively say enough is enough, and invoice them for all our unpaid labour that drives publishers MASSIVE profits?
The Money in Scientific Publishing danielroelfs.com/posts/the-mo... @danielroelfs.com
#KnowledgeSlavery
The Money in Scientific Publishing danielroelfs.com/posts/the-mo... @danielroelfs.com
#KnowledgeSlavery
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HUGE outbreak of HPAI in Norwegian seabirds, w "environmental contamination" of sheep grazing areas. 1/220 sheep tested positive by serology.
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
HUGE outbreak of HPAI in Norwegian seabirds, w "environmental contamination" of sheep grazing areas. 1/220 sheep tested positive by serology.
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Sometimes I pay attention to birds that are not seabirds!
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Sometimes I pay attention to birds that are not seabirds!
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"A formal cockatoo survey report was not prepared...length of time spent in the burn block assessing the area was...not logged by the department...Asked if...staff...assessed...nests or hollows on foot...DBCA did not respond & declined to provide...data & assessments." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Conservationists say endangered cockatoos killed by prescribed burn
Environmental and conservation experts in Western Australia challenge claims by Environment Minister Matthew Swinbourn that two endangered bird species were not present in a patch of Great Southern bu...
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"A formal cockatoo survey report was not prepared...length of time spent in the burn block assessing the area was...not logged by the department...Asked if...staff...assessed...nests or hollows on foot...DBCA did not respond & declined to provide...data & assessments." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Unsurprisingly, the suspected cases of HPAI H5N1 in elephant seals on Australia's subAntarctic island (Heard Island) have been confirmed.
👉 minister.agriculture.gov.au/collins/medi...
👉 minister.agriculture.gov.au/collins/medi...
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Unsurprisingly, the suspected cases of HPAI H5N1 in elephant seals on Australia's subAntarctic island (Heard Island) have been confirmed.
👉 minister.agriculture.gov.au/collins/medi...
👉 minister.agriculture.gov.au/collins/medi...
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Proximity to seabird colonies and water availability shape moss distributions in Antarctica vist.ly/4fqxk #SDM #Mosses #Biogeography
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Proximity to seabird colonies and water availability shape moss distributions in Antarctica vist.ly/4fqxk #SDM #Mosses #Biogeography
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Studying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project?
We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣
🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology
We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣
🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Studying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project?
We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣
🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology
We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣
🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology
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#SuperSeabirdSunday Magnificent Frigatebird in Costa Rica. @steelyseabirder.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
#SuperSeabirdSunday Magnificent Frigatebird in Costa Rica. @steelyseabirder.bsky.social
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Common Noddy at Christmas Island in 2023. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Common Noddy at Christmas Island in 2023. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds
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🌊🧵 1/ Vanderford Glacier, holding more than half-a-metre of global sea level rise, is retreating faster than any other in East #Antarctica (18.6 km of grounding line retreat 1996-2020!) It’s one of a number of glaciers in Vincennes Bay melted by deep warm water getting underneath.
📸 P. Harmsen/AAD
📸 P. Harmsen/AAD
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
🌊🧵 1/ Vanderford Glacier, holding more than half-a-metre of global sea level rise, is retreating faster than any other in East #Antarctica (18.6 km of grounding line retreat 1996-2020!) It’s one of a number of glaciers in Vincennes Bay melted by deep warm water getting underneath.
📸 P. Harmsen/AAD
📸 P. Harmsen/AAD
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Every once in a while, I write a paper that is not about #seabirds! Data from 2012, published today!
rdcu.be/eQJkK
rdcu.be/eQJkK
Seasonal phenology, diversity, and relative abundance of macroinvertebrate waterfowl foods in a coastal wetland landscape in Maritime Canada
rdcu.be
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Every once in a while, I write a paper that is not about #seabirds! Data from 2012, published today!
rdcu.be/eQJkK
rdcu.be/eQJkK
November 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. To get us started here are some fearless Arctic Terns attacking as I move through their colony #SuperSeabirdSunday
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. To get us started here are some fearless Arctic Terns attacking as I move through their colony #SuperSeabirdSunday
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Winter tightens its hold in Lapland. At the moment -28.3 °C in Savukoski Tulppio with > 20 cm of snow. The coldest so far this winter in Finland.
However, much like in 2023, large parts of the northern hemisphere are unusually warm again (except Fennoscandia).
However, much like in 2023, large parts of the northern hemisphere are unusually warm again (except Fennoscandia).
November 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Winter tightens its hold in Lapland. At the moment -28.3 °C in Savukoski Tulppio with > 20 cm of snow. The coldest so far this winter in Finland.
However, much like in 2023, large parts of the northern hemisphere are unusually warm again (except Fennoscandia).
However, much like in 2023, large parts of the northern hemisphere are unusually warm again (except Fennoscandia).
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I spent my final evening in Florida at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park watching royal terns hunt at sunset 🪶🌞🦑🌿
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I spent my final evening in Florida at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park watching royal terns hunt at sunset 🪶🌞🦑🌿
Fledging cuteness 🥰🩵🩵🩵
November 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Fledging cuteness 🥰🩵🩵🩵
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There’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
There’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142
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In Rouzic, France, 1 year post HPAI outbreak, the breeding gannet population 🔻 by 38 %, 22.3% of surviving breeders were had black eyes. black eyes birds not associated with differences in foraging behaviour + habitat use
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
In Rouzic, France, 1 year post HPAI outbreak, the breeding gannet population 🔻 by 38 %, 22.3% of surviving breeders were had black eyes. black eyes birds not associated with differences in foraging behaviour + habitat use
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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SAD news, almost beyond words!! But I will use them …. The #bird the slender-billed curlew is now #extinct @davegoulson.bsky.social
Officially extinct yesterday, RIP slender-billed curlew
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
SAD news, almost beyond words!! But I will use them …. The #bird the slender-billed curlew is now #extinct @davegoulson.bsky.social