Sometimes I pay attention to birds that are not seabirds!

I'll be talking about all this at #AOC2025 tomorrow afternoon.
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Fledging cuteness 🥰🩵🩵🩵

Spots the crested tern chicks!
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Crested tern breeding season now playing.
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The tough life of Australian sealions on a sunny day...

Dr Erin Clitheroe will be giving a presentation on the dwindling population of little penguins in Shoalwater. Free entry, and refreshments provided.
Saturday 30th Aug, 9.30am in Rockingham.
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Light mantled sooty albatross washed up in Perth today. 😢 obviously a bit out of its usual range

Everyone is sick of WA's election talks, but our little WA Seabird Conservation Network got a 1 pager in the newspaper today! 🙂
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Nesting Pelicans obliterating the vegetation that other seabirds rely on to breed. The big guano producers were displaced from Mandurah and now have nowhere else to nest. A bit of a conservation headache... 🤔
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Occasionally, a stupid bird decides that nesting under steps is an excellent idea, and they need some extra help to stay safe until the chick can relocate.
Pretty sure this pair has been photographed by every visitor to the island...

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Well, there are two types of seabirds, the ones that carry fish in their bills, and the ones that .... errr... don't... and regurgitate instead. This breeding season has been pretty good so far in Western Australia for the terns and noddies. Ocean conditions are 👍🌊🐟🐟🐟
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Fieldwork has been pretty sweet lately.
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The good news is that so far this breeding season, there does not appear to be any HPAI H5Nx in Western Australia. But we did have a few scares with botulism strain B!

Happy to see more people on BlueSky. I'm still wondering how much of my seabird work to share on this platform however.