Why are Procellariiform seabirds most diverse in the Southern Hemisphere?

Our study found that wind patterns and time since evolutionary origin best explain the extratropical peak in breeding species richness of these remarkable seabirds. 🐦💨

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【📢 Now available in Chinese and Japanese!】 We invite all shorebird practitioners to share their conservation efforts along the EAAF. Your insights are invaluable in understanding what works and what doesn’t. Contribute by completing our survey tinyurl.com/shorebirdsur...

Call for input from shorebird practitioners to document conservation actions along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. Your insights will help assess what actions works and what doesn’t! You may share your efforts via a survey tinyurl.com/shorebirdsur... or contacting [email protected]

Beautiful Firetail for the bird of the week 😎💁‍♀️

Early bird catches, a bird?

Superb Fairywren snuck into my office

Please ignore my horribly messy desk

📢 NEW PAPER: Using genome wide loci to detect the shift in sources of Zosterops species in the illegal cagebird trade.

Highlighting the application of genomic methods to trace and uncover illegal trade routes

Found this Australasian Gannet on Squeaky beach in late July, but regretfully did not check its ABBBS band.

Turns out its 33 years old since it was banded as a chick at Pope's Eye, Port Phillip.

With many thanks to Stephen Powell for getting the ABBBS and tracing the records.

Setting up my inaugural bluesky post featuring the Apostlebirds which are not the most colourful but definitely full of character! 😍

PS: What are bluesky posts called? Blues? 😂