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Bernard Cadiou
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Seabird monitoring programme in Brittany, France. #stormpetrel biology
And also cooking, juggling, drawing...
Older #stormies are close to fledge in Brittany, Western France, youngest are fluffy, and a few adults are still brooding their chick or incubating their egg #seabirds #stormpetrels
August 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
on the other side of the Channel, in the Molene archipelago (Brittany), respectively 293, 191 and 96 #stormies mist-netted during 3 consecutive nights 2 weeks ago
July 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
1st jumps of the oldest young guillemots at cap Frehel, Brittany
June 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Hatching time for gulls in Brittany #TeamGull
May 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
1st #stormies of the season with a Portuguese ring in #molene archipelago
January 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
here is the smallest egg of storm petrel ever recorded in the #Molene archipelago: about 16x13mm instead of 28x21mm!
small eggs regularly seen in clutches of gulls or oystercatchers but not in #stormies
January 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Catching guillemots and razorbills for GPS tracking at cap Frehel, Brittany #ailesmarines #MIGRATLANE
January 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
1st ringing session of #stormies in Molene archipelago: strange result... only 356 captures during 3 consecutive nights; mainly breeders, wandering prebreeders aged 2-3 years old were absent!
January 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
1st razorbill and guillemot chicks at cap Frehel, Brittany 🐣
not on the photo but one of the few briddled individuals (about 1% of the breeders are briddled
January 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
1st chicks yesterday for GBB and H Gulls at cap Frehel, Brittany
in recent years always beetween 5 and 9 May, a few days earlier than before
January 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
1/2 breeding success expected to be low or very low for #stormies in #Molene archipelago: abandonned eggs and dead chicks recorded, probably effect of warmer SST and additionnal impact of storm 'Patricia' with submersion of tens of breeding sites...
January 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
new longevity record for #stormies in #Molene archipelago: 1 mist-netted in 1989 and retrapped in 2023, 34 years since ringing and at least 36 years old! 😃
January 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
funny fact: a british or irish ringer still don't know that french (as well as spanish) rings on #stormies are above the knee... look carefully before fitting a ring😅
does anyone know bird 2780813?... also known as SE44879 ringed in July 2022 in #Molene archipelago
January 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
2/2 - and 1st chicks ringed, smelly fluffy #stormies 😃
January 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
1/2 - 494 #stormies mist-netted during 3 nights in #Molene archipelago: 1 Spanish ring, 1 Jersey, 1 British
January 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
#HPAI #avianinfluenza on the largest tern colony in Brittany, France
ca 2500 breeding pairs sandwich, 150 common and 30 roseate terns
mass mortality of chicks at various age, from hatching to fledging, as well as some adults
January 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
and first GLS (Intigeo Migrate Technology Ltd) deployed on breeding #stormies in #Molene archipelago, hoping to see them again in 2024 after their trip during the non-breeding period
January 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
first ringing session of #stormies in #Molene archipelago: 657 captures during 3 consecutive nights with 2 mist-nest and without tape-lure, out of which 4 UK/Irish birds
January 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
A strange death in shags... an adult and its chick seem to have die of suffocation during feeding! I've never seen anything like this before...
January 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
January 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
1st eggs recorded for #stormies in #Molene archipelago 😃, as well as birds in pair or alone in nest-sites
January 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Barn owls in #Molene archipelago are specialised in predation on #stormies during the breeding season: here is a sample with at least 77 #stormies (and a few rings), 3 passerines, 350 (!) lesser white-toothed shrews, 4 house mice, 1 wood mouse
January 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Most of the late breeders have failed and only a few #stormies chicks are still in their nest-site in #Molene archipelago, close to fledge
January 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
After a week with #corkseabirds @theseabirdgroup back in the #Molene archipelago to ring as many #stormies chicks as possible before they fledge
Already about 200 ringed
January 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
1st #stormies chicks ringed in #Molene archipelago, tiny fluffy and smelly balls 😃
January 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM