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troydeclan.bsky.social
Many of us learned this bird as the Cape Petrel but now it goes by the name Pintado Petrel. Some birders prefer QR code Petrel. By any name they're striking seabirds that love to visit ships to make sure their beauty is easy to observe. At sea west of South Georgia 🪶🦑
February 4, 2026 at 5:55 PM
bou.org.uk
EARLY VIEW in IBIS

A half century of monitoring reveals contrasting survival responses of Icelandic seabirds to climate and fisheries pressures | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Sarah E. Gutowsky et al | #ornithology 🪶
Bird with colourful bill flying low over water.
February 2, 2026 at 5:42 PM
j-dunning.net
Our article, a birder’s guide to HPAI, was published today in @britishbirds.bsky.social - it’s open access this month.

We explain how bird-flu infected seabirds in 2021/22 and the importance of citizen science to montoring future outbreaks in the wild. 🪶🧪

britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
BB eye: A birder’s guide to High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza
High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI, bird flu) virus infections have historically been most commonly associated with wild Eurasian waterfowl with...
britishbirds.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 9:50 AM
wildfozzy.bsky.social
Another gull filled #SuperSeabirdSunday!

A mid-week visit to Redcar Tarn, Yorkshire to see what was about.

A good selection of gulls; Black-Headed, Common, Herring and Lesser Black-Backed.

@steelyseabirder.bsky.social #Seabirds #GullsoftheWP #UKBirding #YorkshireBirding #GullsoftheWorld 🪶
Chroicocephalus ridibundus ridibundus Larus canus canus Larus argentatus argenteus Larus fuscus graellsii
January 25, 2026 at 10:46 AM
catiecreating.bsky.social
Day 4 of #BirdArtWeek2026 with a Great Cormorant for #SpectacularSeabirds

#birdart #cormorant #seabirds #wildlifeart #ballpoint #charcoal #pendrawing #sciart 🪶 @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
A Great Cormorant perching on rock is drawn in pen and charcoal on grey paper.
January 22, 2026 at 4:44 AM
rowankuminski.bsky.social
Recorded another fun and exciting podcast in Spanish, this time on seabirds! I highly recommend checking out Ignacio's recently published paper! 🪶
animalecology.bsky.social Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 17d
🚨 new podcast episode!
🐧 this episode explores the story behind the paper, "record phenological responses to climate change in three sympatric penguin species".
🎙️ listen to the episode in english here: buff.ly/oUyixWX
🎙️ Escucha el episodio en español aquí: buff.ly/Kfb2bkH
January 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM
wildfozzy.bsky.social
It's been a while since I've posted so why not come back with a #SuperSeabirdSunday post.

On Boxing Day we went to see the Newburn bridge Mediterranean Gull. At this point there was 2 but this has increased to 3!

#GullsoftheWorld @teesbirds.bsky.social #UKWildlife #Seabirds #GullsoftheWP 🪶
Ichthyaetus melanocephalus
January 18, 2026 at 3:56 PM
oceanauk.bsky.social
⚠️🌊 'Forever chemicals' & mercury, which can be released into the sea by oil & gas activity, are disrupting energy production in seabirds at a cellular level, potentially affecting reproduction & flight ability - new research finds 🪶

#EndOffshoreDrilling
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...
Marine 'forever chemicals' disrupt energy production in seabirds
New study finds marine pollutants are disrupting energy production at the cellular level in wild seabirds, potentially affecting fitness
oceanographicmagazine.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:30 AM
wildlifejewels.bsky.social
Wildlife Jewels Rescue Crew in Action: Training to Save Coastal Birds 🪶

🔗 See the recap + learn how to apply here:
www.wildlifejewels.org/wildlife-jew...

🎥 © Wildlife Jewels #Birds #SeaBirds #WildlifeRescue #BirdRescue
January 13, 2026 at 4:44 AM
jocelyngould.bsky.social
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdsInFlight.

I’ve chosen #seabirds for today’s theme.🪶❤️

#birds #ukbirds #birding
Northern Gannet Morus bassanus, Bempton Cliffs RSPB, 7th June 2023. Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis with Sand Eel, Cemlyn Bay, Angelsey, 18th June 2025. Black-legged Kittewake Rissa tridactyla, Bempton Cliffs RSPB, 11th June 2025. European Herring Gull Larus argentatus argenteus Bempton Cliffs RSPB, 2nd Oct 2024.
January 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
awallner.bsky.social
Great frigatebird (‘iwa) – Fregata minor
A flying artist for #BirdOfTheDay and #BirdsInFlight

#birds 🪶 #photography #frigatebird #birdphotography #hawaii #naturephotography #BirdLife #sony
Great frigatebird (‘iwa) –Fregata minor 81”-91” wingspan. Large with fork-in tail. Agile flyers. Females have a white breast and throat. Constructs their nests in shrubs or sometimes in piles of sticks that have been gathered together. Unlike other seabirds, this species does not land on water as it isn’t “waterproof” like other seabirds. This bird is flying away from us, but it has turned its head backwards in flight to preen its feathers; the sea is below it. ©Aw
January 12, 2026 at 4:23 PM
bou.org.uk
EARLY VIEW in IBIS

UAV-based terrain metrics reveal species-specific nest-site preferences in Pygoscelis penguins | doi.org/10.1111/ibi....

Małgorzata Korczak-Abshire, Katarzyna Ewa Jaworska, Piotr Pabjanek, Marlena Kycko, Anna Zmarz | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
Penguin chick surrounded by adults.
January 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM
harkthorn.bsky.social
More birds along the shoreline, Hull 🪶
A photo looking out to sea, of seabirds resting on small rocks along the shoreline in the late afternoon light. The sea is calm, blue, and reflective, and the sky is a pale blue, with white clouds from distant refinaries on the horizon
January 11, 2026 at 5:22 PM
harkthorn.bsky.social
Birds along the shoreline, Hull 🪶
A photo of seabirds resting among the rocks and wooden wreckage of the shoreline somewhere in Hull. A paved sloped bank leads down to the small beach/shoreline, where the tide is beginning to go out. Small rocks and the odd bit of old wooden wreckage lines the shore, from one side of the photo to the other. The sea is calm, blue, and reflective, and the sky is deep blue with some white clouds
January 11, 2026 at 5:19 PM
prehistoricwirral.bsky.social
#SuperSeaBirdSunday is a brilliant idea for brightening up timelines weekly on a Sunday and also encouraging us to take more of an interest in our seabirds throughout the rest of the week...🪶🌊📷
steelyseabirder.bsky.social David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 26d
Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten timelines (it’s needed!). Here is my contribution; a crèche of Eider ducks marching to the sea #SuperSeabirdSunday
January 11, 2026 at 2:10 PM
foxmental.bsky.social
Marine pollutants disrupt cellular energy production in seabirds. Via @sciencex.physorg #MarineBiology 🌊 🐟 #ClimateChange 🌎♨️ #Ornithology 🪶
Marine pollutants disrupt cellular energy production in seabirds
Common pollutants are disrupting energy production at the cellular level in wild seabirds, potentially affecting fitness, new research reveals. The study, published in Environment & Health, focused…
phys.org
January 11, 2026 at 5:00 AM
davidst999.bsky.social
The theme for today’s #BirdOfTheDay set by Alan @alan678.bsky.social is #FoodFinds. Any bird with food in its mouth. Atlantic Puffin, Eurasian Kestrel, Common Cormorant and a Bohemian Waxwing. More info in ALT. #Birds 🪶
Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) with a beak full of sand eels to feed it's single chick. Taken on the Isle of May National Nature Reserve. In recent years it was clear that their staple diet of sand eels were becoming harder to catch. Most shots saw them with sprats. UK has banned commercial sand eel fishing and stocks are now recovering. Good news for Puffins and other seabirds around our coasts. Eurasian Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) with a vole. Taken in The Scottish Wildlife Trusts' Bawsinch and Duddingston Nature Reserve, Edinburgh. Common Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) betting ready to swallow a brown trout on Bavelaw Marsh, west of Edinburgh. A Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) harvesting berries on an Edinburgh street a couple of years ago. Some years huge numbers of these birds migrate across the North Sea from Scandinavia to feast on our berries. Some years almost none make the journey. This year there appears to be only one small flock of a half dozen birds in the city.
January 7, 2026 at 1:44 PM
adammarkham.bsky.social
Summer will inevitably come and then so will gannets.🪶
Large black and white seabirds againts a blue sky with a sheer cliff in the right bottowm corner. There is one wispy cloud at left.
January 2, 2026 at 6:09 PM
egen.bsky.social
Counting down the days til bird banding starts up again!

Band-Tailed Pigeons have migrated away.
Golden-Crowned Sparrows and gobs (that's a technical birding term) of seabirds have moved in for the winter. I suck at IDing them.

Time to install the heated feeder for the Anna's hummingbirds.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
darkwaterphotos.bsky.social
This is a Royal Canadian Air Force maneuver called a Tern and Burn!🦉🪶🌿🦅🐦

#Birds #Art #TopGunTern #TernForTakeoff #OhMyDouglas #InFlightTernertainment #Terninating #Wildlife #BiF #RCAPTern #TernOfTheTide #Photography #TernUpTheHeat #ComingAboutTern #FeelingFlyAsATern
Terns are slender, medium-sized seabirds belonging to the gull family. Adult terns in breeding plumage, as pictured, typically have a black cap, grey and white body, long slender wings, and a deeply forked tail. The bird's bill is red with a black tip, which is characteristic of a breeding adult Common Tern. Common Terns have darker outer primary wing feathers, creating a dark wingtip, which is a key identifier. Arctic Terns are known for their extraordinary long-distance migration, traveling from the Arctic to Antarctica and back each year.
December 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
grrlscientist.bsky.social
Monterey Bay is home to Plastic-Filled Seabirds And Fish

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#Plastic #Pollution #Birds🦉 #Seabirds🪶 #MarineWildlife🐠 #wildlife #MontereyBay medium.com/@grrlscienti...
Monterey Bay is home to Plastic-Filled Seabirds And Fish
Microparticles recovered from the guts of some seabirds living in Monterey Bay exhibited estrogen-like effects that have the potential to…
medium.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
lyndadonaldson.bsky.social
RSPB seasonal positions @rspbscience.bsky.social are live & we are ready for applications!

🌱🪶🌊⛰️🐣 Huge variety of posts available for 2026: seabirds, veg surveys, visitor questionnaires, upland monitoring, wader chick tracking... all listed on the attachments via the link 👇

Deadline 11th Jan 2026 📆
rspbscience.bsky.social RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · Dec 11
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Deadline: 11th Jan 26

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December 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
stacebird.bsky.social
The Red-billed Tropicbirds of Isla de Pajaros are a majestic sight with that long streaming tail. Bird Island is out in the more turbulent seas past the protection of the Bocas del Toro archipelago. An uninhabited island like this is perfect for nesting seabirds to nest away from land predators. 🪶
December 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
adammarkham.bsky.social
That would be great! & I look forward to reading your article. So much fascinating bird-lore & fowling tradition in the Faroes! I trust you have this 2005 book? The photo of named seabird ledges on a Suðuroy cliff is intriguing. I wonder what some of the names were & if still used? 🪶 #archaeobirds
Book cover for "Traditions of seabird fowling in the North Atlantic region", published by The Islands Book Trust (Isle of Lewis) in 2005. The cover shows two men in yellow waterproofs plucking white feathers from seabirds on a stony hilltop near a cairn and with a glimpse of sea and sky in the background A black-and-white picture of a cliff from the same book. The cliff has many numbered small white circles on it labelling named ledges known to fowlers.
December 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
seaghosts-biodv.bsky.social
🌊 Follow us for updates as we continue uncovering the secrets of these incredible 🪶 seabirds and their ocean world! #SeabirdEcologyLab #MarineConservation #Seabirds #CanaryIslands
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM