🐧 Penguins! 🦐 Krill foraging! 🎧 Acoustic data! 🤿 Diving bouts!

Our August #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Bout time for krill: contrasting Adélie penguin foraging behaviour during years of high and low krill availability”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123260

📣Announcing the launch of SealMAP: Seal Mapping & Analysis Platform. This SMRU app allows you to explore & download the latest grey & harbour seal distribution maps for Scotland. You can also get estimates of density for your area of interest. Happy mapping! arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/shiny/smru/s... 🦭🗺️

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨

We put decades of effort in collecting this massive dataset on movement and diving behaviour of northern elephant seals and now we make it available! 🦭🦑🌎
Check it out here 👉

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1️⃣ A new multi-disciplinary study identifies eight potentially cascading ‘tipping points’ that span physical, biological, chemical, and governance systems and highlight #Antarctica’s critical role in global #climate stability.

South American fur #seals tagged in the Falkland Islands 🦭 Females, males and pups showing extensive use of the Patagonian Shelf and providing valuable insights into their movements throughout the year 📊 🧪 🌎

#MovementEcology #SAERI

Save the date! The next BES Movement Ecology SIG annual meeting is taking place on the 2nd-3rd of September 2025 in Norwich. More details to come in the new year! 🌍🧪👩‍🔬
@britishecolsoc.bsky.social

Postdoc opportunity to study tropical seabird connectivity & population genetics in the Indian Ocean!

With @malcnicoll.bsky.social & collaborators as part of the @iomarinescience.bsky.social seabird project

📍University of La Reunion
Apply by Jan 15th

#jobopportunity #seabird #ornithology

SEATRACK got a new website with better functionality and better access to documents: seatrack.net Click yourself through and learn more about the non-breeding distribution of north-Atlantic seabirds!
seapop.no/en/2024/12/n...

New paper from Exeter Marine researchers finds that Montserrat's nesting sea turtles migrate and feed in multiple countries, highlighting the need for conservation without borders! 🐢

Well done team!

Read in full: doi.org/10.3354/esr0...
🦑🦤🧪🌐🌍

#AcademiaSky #ExeterCEC @mcsuk.bsky.social

🐧BirdLife needs seabird tracking data!

We're looking for Humboldt Current region data for assessing fisheries bycatch risk🎣
seabirdtracking.org/humboldt-cur...

This project with Global Fishing Watch is funded by @nfwfnews.bsky.social.

@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social

Overall, this study shows the power of combining fisheries observer records, long-term catch data & environmental information to build understanding of a widespread #conservation & management challenge 🦭🦑🐟🌊
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SEDs have effectively reduced seal moralities, but what’s behind the increase in interactions? 🦭🦑 Using 20 years of #fisheries catch data, we show how historical fishing practices & changes in finfish 🐟 communities could be driving #seals to compete with the #squid fishery for resources
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🚨 New research! 🚨 Seal-fishery interactions in the #Falklands Islands have surged since 2017 🦭 Using 5 years of observer data 👀, we found fur #seals interact with 1/3 of trawls, mostly in high-yield & productive areas 🦑

📊 Graphical abstract & @icesmarine.bsky.social link: tinyurl.com/5fcrkju7
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Latest work on Atlantic bluefin #tuna tagged off the coast of Norway showing their extensive annual migrations, high site-fidelity and dynamic vertical diving behaviour in the Atlantic #Ocean & Mediterranean Sea: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#fisheries #oceanography #movementecology

The #Falkland Isl are a high-use, critical habitat for southern right #whales! 🐳 Our new paper w Falklands Conservation studies local #whale habitat use & long-range movements @bas.ac.uk @hslesser.bsky.social #MarMam

Ten whales were satellite tagged in July 2022 1/3

www.int-res.com/articles/esr...

Hi Josh! Could you add me please? 🙏🏽

Super helpful Emma! Thanks ☺️ Could you add me as well please 🙏🏽

Our new paper outlines methods to ID albatross and petrel species using DNA from feathers. This provides tools to determine which #seabirds species are threatened by fisheries bycatch
#ConservationGenetics 🧬🧪🌏🦑
Here's a news story on our research:
www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2024/us...

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

And they’re off! Marine predator chaos over the Patagonian Shelf...and some fur seal pups going rogue and doing their own thing - venturing out towards South Georgia 🦭🐧

Such an amazing dataset to be working with! 📊👏

#FalklandIslands #animalmovement #penguin #seal #seabird

Hi folks! 👋 I’m Javed Riaz, a marine ecologist at the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute. My research focuses on using different kinds of animal tracking data to learn more about foraging behaviours, habitat use, and how wild populations interact with their environment 🐧