Dr Joanne Morten
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Dr Joanne Morten
@joanne-morten.bsky.social
Seabird ecologist interested in #biologging, #migration and foraging behaviour | Marine Science Officer @BirdlifeMarine
Reposted by Dr Joanne Morten
📢Let’s keep protecting penguins and marine ecosystems!

If you want to contribute or request tracking data, check out the Seabird Tracking Database guidelines:

www.seabirdtracking.org/instructions/
Database Instructions - Seabird Tracking Database
Instructions for researchers on how to participate in this extraordinary collaborative project by contributing your tracking data to the Seabird Tracking Database.
www.seabirdtracking.org
April 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reposted by Dr Joanne Morten
The Seabird Tracking Database seabirdtracking.org provided an opportunity to identify the marine flyways

A MASSIVE THANK YOU 👏to all data contributors, collaborators & GOBI @iki-germany.bsky.social who supported this work

More info, including a beautiful animation ➡️ tinyurl.com/yek8dwt4

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February 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Reposted by Dr Joanne Morten
The marine #flyways concept can help coordinate collaborative #conservation efforts for migratory #seabirds, building on the successes of the existing flyways for land and waterbirds

➡️ birdlife.org/europe-and-central-asia/our-work/flyways/

@migratoryspecies.bsky.social

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February 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Reposted by Dr Joanne Morten
The six marine #flyways cover extensive areas of the world’s oceans and illustrate the broad-scale movements and connectivity of multiple #seabird populations and species during their annual cycle

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February 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Reposted by Dr Joanne Morten
Tracking data from 48 long-distance pelagic #seabird species, shared by >100 collaborators, were analysed to reveal the consistent & repeatable #migratory routes, including a circumpolar navigation of the Southern Ocean & transhemispheric ‘figures of 8’ in the Pacific & Atlantic oceans

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February 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM