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Seasonal migration across the north-western Pacific and Indian Oceans in Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel Hydrobates monorhis | doi.org/10.1017/S095... | Bird Conservation International | #ornithology 🪶
Seasonal migration across the north-western Pacific and Indian Oceans in Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel Hydrobates monorhis | Bird Conservation International | Cambridge Core
Seasonal migration across the north-western Pacific and Indian Oceans in Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel Hydrobates monorhis - Volume 35
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November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I’ve updated my website with more photos of Bannerman's Shearwater. Please take a look🐥🌊! I tried to include different individuals, angles, and views. #Seabirds
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September 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We gave a poster presentation at the Ornithology Society of Japan 2025 annual meeting in Hokkaido; sharing our observations of seabirds off Ogasawara Islands, Japan. #OSJ2025
September 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Scientists found seabirds poop once every four minutes – excreting 5% of their body mass per hour: talker.pub/46ZrG1a

#birds #seabirds #animals #poop #science #studies #research
Study finds seabirds only poop while flying
Scientists found in a new study that seabirds poop once every four minutes – excreting 5% of their body mass per hour.
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August 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Thank you Bob! What a great image👍! I'm looking forward to your footages too!
One last look at Swinhoe’s before tying-up the species account for our new guide, hopefully out next year. Tx to Shoko & Hiro Tanoi. (Photo Kirk Zufelt). #seabirds
June 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
HPAI is impacting seabirds in Hokkaido, Japan.
Since April, deaths have been confirmed in Ancient Murrelet, Rhinoceros Auklet, Common Murre, Crested Auklet, and Spectacled Guillemot — and even in a Harbor Seal.
#avianinfluenza #seabirds #Hokkaido
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野鳥の高病原性鳥インフルエンザ情報 - 環境生活部自然環境局
高病原性鳥インフルエンザとは カモなどの野生の水鳥の多くが無症状のままウイルスを運搬する一方、家きん(ニワトリなど...
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April 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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New Article: Flood, R. L. 2025. Melanistic Cory’s Shearwater off Scilly in August 2024 and notes on confusion species. British Birds 118: 208–213. #seabirds
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(PDF) Melanistic Cory’s Shearwater off the Isles of Scilly in August 2024 and notes on confusion species
PDF | This short paper reports the occurrence of a melanistic Cory’s Shearwater Calonectris borealis off the Isles of Scilly in August 2024, summarises... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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April 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
New paper in Marine Ornithology!
Amazing seabird diversity around Raivavae Island — ten tubenose species breed there.
It also it points out the growing concerns about the impact of introduced feral cats, pigs, and the recently arrived Black Rat. 🐦🌍
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April 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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First U.S. Atlantic record of Nazca Booby Sula granti, with implications for vagrancy by Pacific seabirds into the Gulf of Mexico | http://www.marineorn... | Marine Ornithology | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶 🧪
April 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Happy #WorldPenguinDay 🐧🎉!!
Visiting New Zealand and the Ross Sea in 2019 and seeing so many penguins in those amazing landscapes is still one of the most unforgettable memories of my life. #Seabirds
April 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Short-tailed Albatross spotted off Chichijima Island, Japan. 3rd Apr. 2025.
This individual has a white colour ring marked "Y25". According to records, it was ringed on Torishima Island, Japan, in 2022 as a nestling. #seabirds
April 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Just got back from the Ogasawara Islands last week.
We were lucky enough to see a Bryan’s Shearwater—just one individual though.
Before I share anything else, I wanted to post this video from the ferry as we were leaving Chichijima. The farewell from this island always touches my heart🌺
April 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Listen up anyone working in the Irish Sea this summer! We tagged a bunch of kitts in Liverpool Bay and want to gather as many resightings as we can. If you spot these yellow colour rings please give me a shout (dla205@exeter.ac.uk) 🐦💍💛

(Modelled by our very own VIP 😌👑)

#Seabirds #IrishSea
April 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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EDEC SA works for #CaboVerde govern and changed Brava street & port lights from yellow to strong white LED. A few days later >150 Cape Verde, Leach and WF #StormPetrels & Boyd's #shearwaters collisioned and died. Despite #ProjectoVito warned DNA, 3d later lights are on m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
March 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Modeling breeding habitat preferences of Tahiti Petrel Pseudobulweria rostrata on Ta‘ū, American Samoa | http://www.marineorn... | Marine Ornithology | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
February 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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New research post at #EcoLightsForSeabirds:
Understanding light preferences of #seabirds
This pioneering study evaluates behavioural differences as a function of the light emission spectrum
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Paper
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#lightpollution #ornithology
Understanding light preferences of Procellariiformes
A novel paper investigates the behavioural preferences of both fledgling and adult Cory’s shearwaters ( Calonectris borealis ) to different light stimuli and evaluates this behaviour against the...
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February 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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"Melting Away" - snipe illustration by Chris Rose
#sciart
January 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
We counted 29 Long-billed Murrelets today! That's the highest number ever!! #SeabirdSaturday #Seabirds
February 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🚨 Concerning news 🚨
Sub-Antarctic Amsterdam Island is evacuated following a fire-Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels
#seabirds
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Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels - Sub-Antarctic Amsterdam Island is evacuated following a fire
A fire that that started on France’s sub-Antarctic Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean on 15 January has led to all 31 personnel occupying the Martin-de-Viviès scientific station being evacuated the next day “in the face of the flames that were out of control”.  The fire broke out near Pointe-Bénédicte 2.5 km from the station and was quickly spread by strong winds to threaten the buildings.  “The personnel first “tried to fight the fire but the weather conditions were very unfavourable, with strong gusts, so they were overwhelmed”.  The island’s scientists and military personnel were first removed to the French crayfishing boat Austral early in the day after the fire commenced and then transferred to France’s polar supply and research vessel, Marion du Fresne, the following day, following its diversion from the French Kerguelen Islands to the east.  According to reports, it is not yet known whether any buildings at the Martin-de-Viviès Station escaped the flames.
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January 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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New to Bluesky. Usually posting about birds, nature, or my artwork. Say 👋
Just for fun here are some #hiddengems pieces.
Spot the odd one out!
Marsh tits/willow tit, black-headed gulls/Bonaparte's gull, snipe/jack snipe, golcrests/firecrest
#birds #nature #art #hiddengems
January 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#SuperSeabirdSunday The comparison of Short-tailed Albatross: Torishima-type vs. Senkaku-type.
The purple arrows indicate the Senkaku-type. They are smaller than Torishima-type and are almost the same size as Black-footed Albatross.
For more details, 🔗 doi.org/10.3354/esr0...
January 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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A Black-winged petrel stockpiling leaves towards its burrow entrance, for nesting material. Phillip Island off Norfolk- South Pacific. #SuperSeabirdSunday#Seabirds🪶
January 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Happy #SeabirdSaturday from Japan!!
Long-billed Murrelet, Feb. 2024.
January 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM