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Jeff White
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Postdoctoral Researcher at Cornell and with the Tawaki Trust. Seabird foraging ecology. Stable isotopes. Diving physiology. Population dynamics. he/him 🏳️‍🌈 #firstgen
A couple of weeks ago I had a great chat with Mary from the All About Penguins podcast about crested penguins, conservation, and field work. The episode is now available! Check out her website at www.lifeguin.com

open.spotify.com/episode/1pOr...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
September 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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The #PSG2026 Scientific Program Committee is accepting proposals for workshops, symposia & round-tables!

🗓️ Deadline: Sept 1, 2025
📅 Virtual meeting: Feb 23–27, 2026
📧 [email protected]

🔗 Submit: bit.ly/4oYWq93

#Seabirds #Ornithology
August 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New open access paper out! We evaluated the population structure and conservation needs for 3 crested penguin species in NZ. Read it here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
August 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Excited for the first day of presentations at #AOS2025. Looking forward to hearing about all the great science that's happening!
August 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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A Tawaki Project double-whammy! 🎉 After Myrene’s paper came out last week, we’ve now got a follow-up study highlighting just how adaptable tawaki are finding food at sea - a huge advantage in our rapidly changing world.

As always, Open Access and free to read:
peerj.com/articles/196...
July 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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After three years of hard work, @myrene_ventures has published her first scientific paper! 🎉 It suggests Tawaki might handle our changing world better than many other penguins.

It’s Open Access - go have a read! doi.org/10.7717/peer...
July 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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NEW PAPER: Same-sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more data.

➡️ vist.ly/3n99bk6

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July 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Happy World Penguin Day!
April 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Steeple Jason Island. Home to the largest Black-browed Albatross colony in the world. I spent a week in March sampling albatrosses, penguins, giant petrels, shags, and more as part of our work to understand the dynamics of HPAI in the Falklands seabird community
April 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Penguin counts, elephant seal harems, Canada goose sightings, and more!

Check out the report from the 2024 Bounty-Antipodes Expedition to see what all we were up to this season.
The big Bounty-Antipodes Expedition 2024 report is finally out!

It's jam packed with the info about the work we've been doing on the sub-antarctic Bounty and Antipodes Island including penguins (obviously), albatross, elephant seals - and more archaeological discoveries!

-> bit.ly/bounty-antip...
April 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
After over 5 months in the field I'm back in Ithaca and ready to begin processing samples for #stableisotopes and other dietary analyses. Stay tuned for field recaps from the Falklands/Malvinas and updates from the lab!
April 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Another day and another tagged seabird… this time a Brown Skua at Saunders Island, Falkland. Ring ABU and with a geolocator (?). Anyone know anything about it? Also great to see it with a recently fledged chick. Survivors of the HPAI wave across the isles.
@scottishseabird.bsky.social? #Seabirds
March 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
In the Falklands/Malvinas my focus is understanding food web dynamics for native predators/scavengers and their interactions with both native seabirds and introduced mammals through tracking, stable isotopes, and fecal DNA. Looking forward to a great season over the next few months.
February 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Spent some time sampling and admiring the penguins of Saunders Island last week.
February 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Of course I wouldn't be me if I didn't also post about all the fantastic penguins and shags I'm seeing (and also sampling) including a Northern Rockhopper that seems to have made a friend with one of the local Southern Rockhoppers. All this from just one island.
January 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Last week I arrived in the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas for field campaign #2 of the season. This time I'm focused on the foraging ecology of scavengers on islands +/- introduced mammals. Lots of GLS to deploy on skuas and of course lots of stable isotopes to come!
January 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Just a week ago we were packing and prepping for pick up from Antipodes Island. 2.5 months of exhausting field work flew by with this amazing team. Couldn’t ask for better people to study penguins with. Thanks for another great season @tawaki-project.org
December 21, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Somehow 2.5 months on Antipodes has come to an end. We said goodbye to that stunning island and the incredible birds that call it home, and sailed back to the South Island. Hopefully expanding the work to other islands next season. 🐧🇳🇿#seabirds
December 18, 2024 at 6:52 AM
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Last day of streaming from the Antipodes Islands. We're going home tomorrow.

tawaki.cam/antipodes
December 13, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Ever wonder what a penguin colony sounds like at night? This is from our southern study colony on Antipodes. Our camp is located about 50 ft away so we get to hear (and smell) them all night long.
December 13, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Crèching is imminent for the erect-crested penguin chicks. But being too big to fit under dad means that they are now exposed to the sun. On bright sunny days the colonies can get very warm, so the chicks resort to rather dramatic panting to stay cool. I’m sure they are relieved when night comes.
December 12, 2024 at 8:35 PM
This big erect-crested penguin chick has figured out how to game the system. That’s not its dad beside it. This chick belongs to a neighbor. Over several days we watched it get fed by its mom and then waddle over to the neighbor and successfully get fed a second time by another chick’s mom.
December 10, 2024 at 6:16 PM