The Seabird Group
@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social
Promoting the study & conservation of seabirds via conferences, grant provision, newsletters & our open access, free-to-publish journal 🐧🕊️🌊
If you're a Seabird Group member, remember to check your inbox for the link to join our #AGM next Weds (12th Nov) at 12 noon 📅🕊️ Come along and hear what we've been working on this past year.
You can also vote for the incoming Executive Committee members using the link in the email! 👥🗳️
#seabirds
You can also vote for the incoming Executive Committee members using the link in the email! 👥🗳️
#seabirds
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Do you like using social media? 🗣️ Are you a bit of a TikTok Queen (or King)? 🤳 Do you want to help support #seabirds? 🕊️
We are still looking for someone to run our Social Media! You will have creative content control + an assistant to help 🧑🤝🧑 A great role for your CV & future jobs in conservation 💚
We are still looking for someone to run our Social Media! You will have creative content control + an assistant to help 🧑🤝🧑 A great role for your CV & future jobs in conservation 💚
October 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Do you like using social media? 🗣️ Are you a bit of a TikTok Queen (or King)? 🤳 Do you want to help support #seabirds? 🕊️
We are still looking for someone to run our Social Media! You will have creative content control + an assistant to help 🧑🤝🧑 A great role for your CV & future jobs in conservation 💚
We are still looking for someone to run our Social Media! You will have creative content control + an assistant to help 🧑🤝🧑 A great role for your CV & future jobs in conservation 💚
Another day, another #auk. The Black guillemot (Cepphus grylle) is born black+fluffy, with several years before developing its bright red feet fully. These are associated with sexual maturity @2-4 y/o 👣
Black guillies are widespread in the N.hemisphere and are arguably the best #seabird 😉 #Auktober
Black guillies are widespread in the N.hemisphere and are arguably the best #seabird 😉 #Auktober
October 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
An #auktober pair of Razorbills (Alca torda) 🖤🤍🖤🤍
These tuxedoed little friends share nesting responsibilities equally between both parents. To avoid conflict on the rocks outside their nests they mirror the body language of their neighbours in a peaceful display! 🤝
#seabirds #razorbill #gentlemen
These tuxedoed little friends share nesting responsibilities equally between both parents. To avoid conflict on the rocks outside their nests they mirror the body language of their neighbours in a peaceful display! 🤝
#seabirds #razorbill #gentlemen
October 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
An #auktober pair of Razorbills (Alca torda) 🖤🤍🖤🤍
These tuxedoed little friends share nesting responsibilities equally between both parents. To avoid conflict on the rocks outside their nests they mirror the body language of their neighbours in a peaceful display! 🤝
#seabirds #razorbill #gentlemen
These tuxedoed little friends share nesting responsibilities equally between both parents. To avoid conflict on the rocks outside their nests they mirror the body language of their neighbours in a peaceful display! 🤝
#seabirds #razorbill #gentlemen
This is the last issue from our fabulous Editor @islandamy21.bsky.social 😢❤️ We're really sad to see her go, so we hope you'll join us in giving her a huge thanks for all the news and #seabird stories she has brought to us over the last few years 👏👏👏👏👏
October 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is the last issue from our fabulous Editor @islandamy21.bsky.social 😢❤️ We're really sad to see her go, so we hope you'll join us in giving her a huge thanks for all the news and #seabird stories she has brought to us over the last few years 👏👏👏👏👏
We hear from our Chair @thelabandfield.bsky.social on the upcoming AGM & Group vacancies, get new ECR papers from @jacquiglencross.bsky.social & an update on Roland Arnison's 'Call of the Loon' Expedition 🦆
On top of this - a note for those on Instagram to follow us over at @theseabirdgroup 📲🤩📸
On top of this - a note for those on Instagram to follow us over at @theseabirdgroup 📲🤩📸
October 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We hear from our Chair @thelabandfield.bsky.social on the upcoming AGM & Group vacancies, get new ECR papers from @jacquiglencross.bsky.social & an update on Roland Arnison's 'Call of the Loon' Expedition 🦆
On top of this - a note for those on Instagram to follow us over at @theseabirdgroup 📲🤩📸
On top of this - a note for those on Instagram to follow us over at @theseabirdgroup 📲🤩📸
By now issue #60 of our newsletter should've hit your inbox! 📩
This time is a hefty one, inclu. round ups from many #seabird breeding colonies around the UK! 🐣
We've got herons predating kittiwakes, brood patches in stormies & we spotlight Lindsay Young - VP. Research for Pristine Seas (NatGeo) ⭐
This time is a hefty one, inclu. round ups from many #seabird breeding colonies around the UK! 🐣
We've got herons predating kittiwakes, brood patches in stormies & we spotlight Lindsay Young - VP. Research for Pristine Seas (NatGeo) ⭐
October 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
By now issue #60 of our newsletter should've hit your inbox! 📩
This time is a hefty one, inclu. round ups from many #seabird breeding colonies around the UK! 🐣
We've got herons predating kittiwakes, brood patches in stormies & we spotlight Lindsay Young - VP. Research for Pristine Seas (NatGeo) ⭐
This time is a hefty one, inclu. round ups from many #seabird breeding colonies around the UK! 🐣
We've got herons predating kittiwakes, brood patches in stormies & we spotlight Lindsay Young - VP. Research for Pristine Seas (NatGeo) ⭐
Continuing our #AUKTOBER theme, here's a Common guillemot (or Common murre) with its beak full 🐧🐟
These little guys are incredible freedivers - recorded diving at depths of up to 180m in pursuit of prey 🤿 They have even been spotted through the window of submarines! ⚓
#Seabirds #SuperSeabirdSunday
These little guys are incredible freedivers - recorded diving at depths of up to 180m in pursuit of prey 🤿 They have even been spotted through the window of submarines! ⚓
#Seabirds #SuperSeabirdSunday
October 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Continuing our #AUKTOBER theme, here's a Common guillemot (or Common murre) with its beak full 🐧🐟
These little guys are incredible freedivers - recorded diving at depths of up to 180m in pursuit of prey 🤿 They have even been spotted through the window of submarines! ⚓
#Seabirds #SuperSeabirdSunday
These little guys are incredible freedivers - recorded diving at depths of up to 180m in pursuit of prey 🤿 They have even been spotted through the window of submarines! ⚓
#Seabirds #SuperSeabirdSunday
Website Manager position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Websit...
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Common tern image: Debs Allbrook]
#seabirds #teamtern #WebManager
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Common tern image: Debs Allbrook]
#seabirds #teamtern #WebManager
October 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Website Manager position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Websit...
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Common tern image: Debs Allbrook]
#seabirds #teamtern #WebManager
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Common tern image: Debs Allbrook]
#seabirds #teamtern #WebManager
Newsletter/ Social Media Support position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Newsle...
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[White tern image: Hayley McLennan]
#seabirds #teamtern #AssistantEditor
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[White tern image: Hayley McLennan]
#seabirds #teamtern #AssistantEditor
October 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Newsletter/ Social Media Support position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Newsle...
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[White tern image: Hayley McLennan]
#seabirds #teamtern #AssistantEditor
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[White tern image: Hayley McLennan]
#seabirds #teamtern #AssistantEditor
Social Media Manager position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Social...
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Humboldt penguin image: Ahmet Yüksek]
#seabirds #penguins #SocialMedia
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Humboldt penguin image: Ahmet Yüksek]
#seabirds #penguins #SocialMedia
October 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Social Media Manager position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Social...
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Humboldt penguin image: Ahmet Yüksek]
#seabirds #penguins #SocialMedia
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Humboldt penguin image: Ahmet Yüksek]
#seabirds #penguins #SocialMedia
Assistant Journal Editor position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Assist...
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Arctic skua egg image: Danni Thompson]
#seabirds #SEABIRDJournal #science
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Arctic skua egg image: Danni Thompson]
#seabirds #SEABIRDJournal #science
October 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Assistant Journal Editor position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Assist...
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Arctic skua egg image: Danni Thompson]
#seabirds #SEABIRDJournal #science
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Arctic skua egg image: Danni Thompson]
#seabirds #SEABIRDJournal #science
Secretary position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Secret...
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Bridled guillemot image: Andreas Trepte, www.avi-fauna.info]
#seabirds #guillemot #auktober
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Bridled guillemot image: Andreas Trepte, www.avi-fauna.info]
#seabirds #guillemot #auktober
October 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Secretary position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Secret...
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Bridled guillemot image: Andreas Trepte, www.avi-fauna.info]
#seabirds #guillemot #auktober
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Bridled guillemot image: Andreas Trepte, www.avi-fauna.info]
#seabirds #guillemot #auktober
Have you signed up for the World Seabird Conference yet? 7-11 Sept 2026, Hobart, Australia 🐦🦘
Registration is open now, with abstracts accepted until 15 Jan 👩🏫🌊
A fantastic opportunity for #seabirders! Runs every 5 years. Accessible, inclusive, global 🌍 #WSC4
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir...
Registration is open now, with abstracts accepted until 15 Jan 👩🏫🌊
A fantastic opportunity for #seabirders! Runs every 5 years. Accessible, inclusive, global 🌍 #WSC4
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir...
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Have you signed up for the World Seabird Conference yet? 7-11 Sept 2026, Hobart, Australia 🐦🦘
Registration is open now, with abstracts accepted until 15 Jan 👩🏫🌊
A fantastic opportunity for #seabirders! Runs every 5 years. Accessible, inclusive, global 🌍 #WSC4
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir...
Registration is open now, with abstracts accepted until 15 Jan 👩🏫🌊
A fantastic opportunity for #seabirders! Runs every 5 years. Accessible, inclusive, global 🌍 #WSC4
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir...
We have vacancies available on our committee! 🕊️👨👨👧👩👩👦
We are recruiting for 5 roles:
Secretary 👩🏫
Assistant Journal Editor 📉
Social Media Lead 🤳
Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝
Website Officer 🧑💻
Feel free to DM for details & email secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥
We are recruiting for 5 roles:
Secretary 👩🏫
Assistant Journal Editor 📉
Social Media Lead 🤳
Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝
Website Officer 🧑💻
Feel free to DM for details & email secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥
October 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
We have vacancies available on our committee! 🕊️👨👨👧👩👩👦
We are recruiting for 5 roles:
Secretary 👩🏫
Assistant Journal Editor 📉
Social Media Lead 🤳
Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝
Website Officer 🧑💻
Feel free to DM for details & email secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥
We are recruiting for 5 roles:
Secretary 👩🏫
Assistant Journal Editor 📉
Social Media Lead 🤳
Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝
Website Officer 🧑💻
Feel free to DM for details & email secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥
Welcome to #AUKTOBER! 🐧🎃
(we know penguins aren't #auks but no emojis!)
Throughout the month we'll be posting pictures, cool facts & generally celebrating the world of the auk ♥️
To start: the clown-faced, people's choice.. the puffin 🤡. Jazzy beak by day, UV disco beak by night 💃 What a bird!
(we know penguins aren't #auks but no emojis!)
Throughout the month we'll be posting pictures, cool facts & generally celebrating the world of the auk ♥️
To start: the clown-faced, people's choice.. the puffin 🤡. Jazzy beak by day, UV disco beak by night 💃 What a bird!
October 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Exciting news!! The World Seabird Union @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social 4th World #Seabird Conference is now open for registration! 🕊️🌏
🏢Hobart, Tasmania. 📅7-11 Sept 2026
Click the link for all the info 🤓
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir... #WSC4
🏢Hobart, Tasmania. 📅7-11 Sept 2026
Click the link for all the info 🤓
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir... #WSC4
October 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Exciting news!! The World Seabird Union @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social 4th World #Seabird Conference is now open for registration! 🕊️🌏
🏢Hobart, Tasmania. 📅7-11 Sept 2026
Click the link for all the info 🤓
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir... #WSC4
🏢Hobart, Tasmania. 📅7-11 Sept 2026
Click the link for all the info 🤓
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir... #WSC4
The last (but not least!) paper from our journal's latest issue - #Seabird 37 - is online now! doi.org/10.61350/sbj...
This one is all about mortality & aspergillosis (a fungal infection 🍄 & silent killer) in rescued gannets #northerngannet #wildliferehabilitation #seabirdhealth
This one is all about mortality & aspergillosis (a fungal infection 🍄 & silent killer) in rescued gannets #northerngannet #wildliferehabilitation #seabirdhealth
September 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The last (but not least!) paper from our journal's latest issue - #Seabird 37 - is online now! doi.org/10.61350/sbj...
This one is all about mortality & aspergillosis (a fungal infection 🍄 & silent killer) in rescued gannets #northerngannet #wildliferehabilitation #seabirdhealth
This one is all about mortality & aspergillosis (a fungal infection 🍄 & silent killer) in rescued gannets #northerngannet #wildliferehabilitation #seabirdhealth
On Friday we had an insightful panel chat about #peerreview. We heard different ways of getting involved & how it benefits your own science + our industry. Thank you @thelabandfield.bsky.social @ingridpollet.bsky.social @tashgillies.bsky.social & Dr. Sherley, & ofc @jacquiglencross.bsky.social! 😊
September 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
On Friday we had an insightful panel chat about #peerreview. We heard different ways of getting involved & how it benefits your own science + our industry. Thank you @thelabandfield.bsky.social @ingridpollet.bsky.social @tashgillies.bsky.social & Dr. Sherley, & ofc @jacquiglencross.bsky.social! 😊
September 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
As autumn begins & seabird season ends for another year, we've been reminiscing about the summer! We'd love to share images of #seabird fieldwork throughout September to celebrate our diverse seabird species ✨🪶
If you have one you'd like to share pls include a description & use #SeabirdSeptember! 🐦
If you have one you'd like to share pls include a description & use #SeabirdSeptember! 🐦
September 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
As autumn begins & seabird season ends for another year, we've been reminiscing about the summer! We'd love to share images of #seabird fieldwork throughout September to celebrate our diverse seabird species ✨🪶
If you have one you'd like to share pls include a description & use #SeabirdSeptember! 🐦
If you have one you'd like to share pls include a description & use #SeabirdSeptember! 🐦
The next in our series of ECR talks is coming up on Fri 5th September - this time on Peer Review 👀📃
The panel will be our own @thelabandfield.bsky.social & @ingridpollet.bsky.social, @tashgillies.bsky.social & Dr. Richard Sherley ✒️✨
Time: 9.30 am (BST). Sign up now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The panel will be our own @thelabandfield.bsky.social & @ingridpollet.bsky.social, @tashgillies.bsky.social & Dr. Richard Sherley ✒️✨
Time: 9.30 am (BST). Sign up now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The next in our series of ECR talks is coming up on Fri 5th September - this time on Peer Review 👀📃
The panel will be our own @thelabandfield.bsky.social & @ingridpollet.bsky.social, @tashgillies.bsky.social & Dr. Richard Sherley ✒️✨
Time: 9.30 am (BST). Sign up now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The panel will be our own @thelabandfield.bsky.social & @ingridpollet.bsky.social, @tashgillies.bsky.social & Dr. Richard Sherley ✒️✨
Time: 9.30 am (BST). Sign up now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Early career researcher who'd love a mentor? Or mid-career (onwards) looking to give back AS a mentor?
Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧
Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb...
Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA...
Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩👩👦👦
Pls share! #seabirds
Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧
Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb...
Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA...
Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩👩👦👦
Pls share! #seabirds
August 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Early career researcher who'd love a mentor? Or mid-career (onwards) looking to give back AS a mentor?
Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧
Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb...
Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA...
Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩👩👦👦
Pls share! #seabirds
Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧
Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb...
Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA...
Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩👩👦👦
Pls share! #seabirds
We have awarded our Research Grants of £500 for this round 🏆👏
Congrats to all the well-deserved recipients - more to follow on them! This time we are supporting projects on kittiwake nest conditions, parental care in petrels, using eDNA to locate cryptic petrel species & Kenyan gull monitoring! 🙌🕊️.
Congrats to all the well-deserved recipients - more to follow on them! This time we are supporting projects on kittiwake nest conditions, parental care in petrels, using eDNA to locate cryptic petrel species & Kenyan gull monitoring! 🙌🕊️.
July 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We have awarded our Research Grants of £500 for this round 🏆👏
Congrats to all the well-deserved recipients - more to follow on them! This time we are supporting projects on kittiwake nest conditions, parental care in petrels, using eDNA to locate cryptic petrel species & Kenyan gull monitoring! 🙌🕊️.
Congrats to all the well-deserved recipients - more to follow on them! This time we are supporting projects on kittiwake nest conditions, parental care in petrels, using eDNA to locate cryptic petrel species & Kenyan gull monitoring! 🙌🕊️.
Couldn't let #WorldSeabirdDay go past without a nod from us and the best UK #seabird there is! Here's to another year where we will advocate and fight for our beautiful, wonderful #seabirds ❤️❤️❤️
What's your favourite seabird?? [Photo: Debs Allbrook]
What's your favourite seabird?? [Photo: Debs Allbrook]
July 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Couldn't let #WorldSeabirdDay go past without a nod from us and the best UK #seabird there is! Here's to another year where we will advocate and fight for our beautiful, wonderful #seabirds ❤️❤️❤️
What's your favourite seabird?? [Photo: Debs Allbrook]
What's your favourite seabird?? [Photo: Debs Allbrook]