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Alice Edney

@aliceedney.bsky.social

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Seabird Ecologist at NTS #NTSseabirds | Treasurer of The Seabird Group | Enjoys birds, nature, & outdoor adventures 🐣🌊⛰ | she/her

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Alice Edney @aliceedney.bsky.social · Aug 1

Really pleased to have contributed to this epic survey of >59,000 pairs of gannets! The St Kilda colony was less impacted by HPAI than other colonies, perhaps because steep cliffs reduced disease transmission. Flatter areas of the colony suffered greater losses.

#ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds

St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS @stkildawhs.bsky.social · Jul 31

Results from the 2023 #StKilda Gannet census are to be published in the December issue of #ScottishBirds, revealing relative stability in what is once again the world's largest colony, despite fears that #HPAI may have had a greater impact on the population
#NTSSeabirds
@scottishbirding.bsky.social

A bird’s-eye view of the gannet colony at St Kilda

The first drone census at St Kilda has revealed the islands are now home to the world’s largest gannet colony.

www.nts.org.uk

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Devi Satarkar @devisatarkar.bsky.social · 1d

New preprint! 🪶

We analysed 60 years of data on 83,000+ great tits to show how extreme climate impacts on nestling growth and survival are stage-specific and context-dependent 🐣 🌍🔥❄️

With @davididiaquez.bsky.social @iremsepil.bsky.social @sheldonbirds.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

a 14 day old great tit nestling, ringed for individual identification

Figure from the paper showing that extreme climatic events interact with ambient climatic conditions and breeding timing within a season, in a developmental stage-specific manner, to influence nestling growth in great tits

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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 1d

Job vacancy 🧪
Principal Conservation Scientist, RSPB Cymru

Can you provide the evidence needed to save and restore the iconic species and landscapes of Wales?

Deadline: 3rd Nov
Location: Flexible within Wales
Duration: Permanent

Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

📷Jake Stephen

A Chough sits on a rocky cliff edge at South Stack Nature Reserve, North Wales.

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 1d

Large citizen science datasets are powerful tools for biodiversity science, but they may have biases. Nice new paper from @louisbackstrom.bsky.social et al. showing that for eBird and Birdtrack lists there is a tendency for rare species to be over-represented
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 2d

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) ⭐

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Sophie Bennett @bennett-sophie.bsky.social · 4d

Hooray! I hope folk find this useful, my last #seabird PhD-linked paper 🐧

Marine Ornithology @marineorno.bsky.social · 5d

New paper!! Geolocator error decreases with an increase in the number of days of data. By @bennett-sophie.bsky.social et al.

www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_...

#seabirds #OpenAccess #biologging

Data and predictions from non-linear least squares models of the relationship between the number of days with location data and
the distance between centroids derived from global location sensor loggers and platform terminal transmitters deployed on Black-browed
Albatrosses Thalassarche melanophris

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Dave Ewing @daveewing.bsky.social · 6d

A nice thread highlighting key findings from our new paper estimating parameters of #HPAI in subsequent outbreaks in common terns. We developed a Bayesian inference approach to infer parameters from just carcass counts. #seabirds #statisticalecology #diseaseecology

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Common Tern Project @commonternproject.bsky.social · 6d

Out @animalecology.bsky.social today - a paper with David Ewing in which we explore the #HPAI outbreak in the terns. We find bird-to-bird transmission to be the main driver of infection and estimate the probability of mortality to drop from 0.26 to 0.14 from 2022 to 2023: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Marine Ornithology @marineorno.bsky.social · 6d

New paper: Females Red phalaropes arrive at wintering ground before males. By Yerko Vilina et al.
#seabirds #OpenAccess

www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_...

Violin plot (half of a continuous histogram) and boxplot
of the days of arrival of Red Phalaropes Phalaropus fulicarius in
non-breeding plumage at Mejillones Bay for each sex.

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to be helping with this! Always love working with ringing data, and great to do so working on such an interesting question ☺️

Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 Master’s project!
Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦
Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology

www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

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St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS @stkildawhs.bsky.social · 8d

This collar-ringed European White-fronted Goose (T7Z) was ringed in Netherlands in Nov 2024 and had previously been reported at 2 other sites in Netherlands before turning up on #SKilda today. Reported to cr-birding.org. Incredible what we can learn about birds' movements from ringing projects!

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 9d

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 [email protected] to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 12d

Temporal Variation in Early-Life Conditions Impacts on Later-Life Levels of Infection in Sex Specific Ways | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 11d

Important date for your diaries ‼️

Our AGM is Wed 12 Nov - 12 midday (online) 📔👩‍💻

ALL our members are welcome & we'd love you to join us if you can. A number of roles have also come up within the committee - details on how to apply to follow.

Not yet signed up? www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/membership

Membership - Seabird Group

The Seabird Group was founded to promote and co-ordinate the study and conservation of seabirds. We organise conferences and publish the journal SEABIRD.

www.seabirdgroup.org.uk

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 11d

Many lichen species are sensitive to nitrogen pollution, making them natural indicators of air quality.

📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.

buff.ly/AmWAOQB

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Side by side photos of a person looking at a picture of lichen on an app and comparing it to lichen on a tree trunk

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 12d

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UKCEHseabirds @handle.invalid · Sep 9

Just launched, spmapper is a new marine spatial planning tool from UKCEH! By estimating where and how much seabirds eat, spmapper can help with siting new offshore windfarms and protection areas. nerc-ceh.github.io/spmapper-pkg...

spmapper

A spatial planning tool to indicate the foraging value of marine areas to breeding seabirds.

nerc-ceh.github.io

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 16d

A great outcome from a workshop at our #seabird conference last year in Portugal, this review paper collab has been selected as Editor's choice at ICES Journal of Marine Science! 💪👏

⤵️ academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

#seabirdmonitoring #newtechnology #remotecameras #acoustic #biotelemetry #UAVs 🛰️🌊

Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring

Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu

academic.oup.com

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 16d

1/ New study! #Seabirds are among the most threatened groups of birds globally, and a new study looked at how emerging technologies can be optimally harnessed in seabird monitoring. ➡️ www.bto.org/new-tech-seabird-monitoring #Ornithology

Guillemots together on the top of a rock face. Wording above reads: New Study. Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring. www.bto.org/new-tech-seabird-monitoring

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · 17d

Been great fun visiting @flamboroughbird.bsky.social last week, and am super excited to be back in a few days! Awesome start to the project with 4 birds sampled in the last 4 days, we're hoping to use #genomic data derived from feather samples to see where these enigmatic birds come from ☺️

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Flamborough Bird Observatory @flamboroughbird.bsky.social · 17d

We’ve been delighted to host @joewynnbirds.bsky.social this week at FBO as part of the
Trans-Siberian
genoscape project
tracing geographic
origins of vagrant birds with 3 Yellow-browed Warbler sampled.

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Endangered Species Research @esr-ir.bsky.social · 19d

🌐🧪🦤 Automated cameras in remote field sites captured breeding data for at-risk #doublecrestedcormorant in #StraitofGeorgia #BritishColumbia. Multievent capture-recapture models were used to understand negative effects on nest success across entire breeding season. bit.ly/esr_58_85

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 20d

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Effect of a previous high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAIV) infection on the breeding success of Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Sue Lewis et al | #ornithology 🪶

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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 21d

New technology may aid seabird monitoring in difficult to access populations but managing high volumes of data output is essential 🪶

Read the new paper here:
doi.org/10.1093/ices...

Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring

Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu

academic.oup.com

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ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · 21d

📡 New insights for seabird monitoring
New tech could reshape how we track seabird populations in a changing world.

✍️ New Editor’s Choice in #IJMS
www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...
👉 Read the paper doi.org/10.1093/ices...

📸 @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social

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