Breaking: APVMA suspends sale of persistent owl poisons in Australia! We have fought tirelessly for years and after meeting with them last week this is not an outcome we had anticipated! www.apvma.gov.au/news-and-pub...
Native plant restoration provides habitat for #Birds on Kuaihelani. Loulu, naio, mili and nehe are propagated and outplanted year-round by USFWS staff and volunteers. Mahalo to volunteer Sophie Elliott for photos.
requiem for vanished birdsong
Now online in Journal of #Ornithology
Seasonal dynamics of urban bird communities: impact of habitat on breeding and wintering bird communities in a northern temperate region
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#ornithology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Outrageous. Alcoa has just been granted a Federal exemption to allow it to continue to mine Jarrah forest. It already has a State exemption.The exemptions allow Alcoa to ignore environmental approval processes. Most clearing has occurred since 2010. Rehab has failed is excessively behind schedule
π The CSIRO Marine National Facility (MNF) invites Australian
researchers to apply for sea time on RV Investigator in 2028-29, to deliver research, innovation & training projects supported by MNF infrastructure, equipment & expertise. Applications close 19 May 2026.
Get onboard at www.csiro.au/mnf
#ornithology
r2rbirds.org/news-and-eve...
A dead Puffin lies on wet sand, its black and white feathers darkened and slick against the beach. The bird rests on its side, wings folded, with its distinctive orange bill clearly visible against the pale sand.
Heartbreaking: Right now, thousands of Puffins are washing up along our coasts and further afield.
It is devastating to see.
These birds are Red-listed in the UK and already under serious pressure.
Mass deaths like this, known as a βseabird wreckβ, can take years for colonies to recover from...
Massive wreck of #puffins #seabirds in France, Spain and Portugal after successive storms (same period as the 2014 event)
All age classes founded: 1st winter, immature and adults
After some research, from 1869 to 2016, one third of European #seagrass area was lost due to disease, deteriorated water quality, and coastal development
The highest decline was the 1970s and 1980s
#GES4SEAS #MOOC #oceanoptimism
#MarineEcology #Research
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11340-4
How has HPAI affected population level declines? In 2023/23 resulted in drastic decrease in adult survival, a driver of dynamics in long lived seabirds. Resilience analysis revealed HPAI outbreaks couls cause long lasting demographic impacts.
π besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
On the Falkland Islands Rockhopper penguins often nest with Imperial Shags intermingling closely nests side by side in places. On Sea Lion Island there is a mixed colony like this at the top of a steep and forbidding cliff with a gully that the waves crash into with ferocity. A few years ago a freak wave came over the top of the cliff and all but wiped out the imperial shag's nests and chicks there. The next year very few returned and the penguin colony dwindled as well to try and encourage their return the Island managers placed concrete models in the stones on the top of the cliffs to try and attract the birds - the plan, or just nature, has worked and although the colony is still not as big as it was once it has increased in number each year since - there were a good number of shag nests just out of shot. Photo of an adult rockhopper penguin, standing on rocks, showing the characteristic white front, black head face and neck with yellow eyebrows and black and yellow head tuft feathers. On one side is a half reclining brown fluffy chick and on the other a concrete model of a sitting Imperial Shag.
Rockhopper and chick next to.... hang on, is that a petrified shag???
Story in Alt
Sea Lion Island #FalklandIslands Jan 2026
200mm f9 1:1000 ISO800
#BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples #birds #EastCoastKin #penguin #Twosday #Wildlife #ArtYear #Travel
Dr Beth Cookson , Delegate to WOAH and Chief Veterinary Officer of Australia, informed WOAH that a simulation
exercise, Parks Australia ANBG1, on #H5N1 high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) will be conducted in Canberra, ACT, on 20 February 2026.
www.woah.org/app/uploads/...
The white-backed swallow survives the extreme temperatures of inland Australia by reducing its body temperature to save energy.
π Read the full story: theconversation.com/tiny-ra...
#ornithology
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
!πNew paperπ!
My 2nd PhD paper is out in @animalecology.bsky.social ky.social !
Using a unique 25-year #biologging and population monitoringπ§ dataset , we uncover how environmental changes π§ scale up from individual to population responses.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#move
2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
β¬οΈ Warmest ocean heat content
β¬οΈ Tied as second warmest surface temps
β¬οΈ Second warmest troposphere
β¬οΈ Record high sea level and GHGs
β¬οΈ Record low winter Arctic ice
New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
WSC4 Abstract Submissions β Now Open
Abstract submissions for WSC4 are currently open and have been extended until 23 January 2026 (23:59 UTC-12).
Submitting an abstract is easy via our Abstract Portal.
Check out our website for full guidelines and submission details.
π bit.ly/4qRZd44
#WSC4
Abstract submission has been extended until 23rd January π£
Good luck to all those applying!
Last years field assistant holding a Manx Shearwater on the isle of Rum (under a towel), retrieving a GPS device after a bird has returned from a foraging trip!
We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project.
Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
Moonrise last night, from the heli deck of RSV Nuyina at Heard Island #subantarctic #MarineScience π§ͺπ§¬
ππ°ππππ§ π‘ππ¬ π₯π¨π¬π ππ‘π ππ§π¨π°π² ππ°π₯. π
For the first time in 20 years, a bird species has disappeared from the country.
Iceberg earthquakes in #Antarctica 2/3rds detected at Doomsday glacier β 245 out of 362 β were located near the marine end of Thwaites. Most of these events are likely glacial earthquakes due to capsizing icebergs.
Same π₯²π«
#Glyphosate - how much damage done in those 25 years, to #PublicHealth and #biodiversity.
We have to stop this #pesticide merry-go-round of new-wonder-chemical, concerns, then obvious disaster.
We need #agroecology
www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
A fluffy precious little white tern chick laying on a branch
PSA!!!!!! π¨
White tern chick!!!!!! πͺΆ
Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
#CriticallyEndangered Penguins (Spheniscus demersus) π§ vs. Fisheries in South Africa πΏπ¦
- Penguins lose π
#Birds #Ornithology #MarineEcology
phys.org/news/2025-11...
