Katherine Booth Jones

A pair of Black Guillemots perching in the Bangor harbour by Katherine Booth Jones / BTO

Three Black Guillemots by Daniel Johnston / BTO

Black Guillemots (also known as Tysties) are a species of Auk found in urban coastal areas & offshore islands

Find out how you can help increase our understanding of Black Guillemots through the document below 👇
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Black Guillemot by Daniel Johnston / BTO

Would you like to contribute to important science work on one of our most iconic seabirds? Get involved in the All Island Black Guillemot survey this spring, a partnership survey between BTO NI & @npwsireland.bsky.social!
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#ornithology #ConservationScience🌍 #seabirds

The image contains a header at the top reading "Wanted: Shag resightings". Below this is a picture of a Shag weraing a blue colour ring with the code "UXE" and a text box of the information needed if you see a colour ringed Shag. This information is: date, location, colour of the ring, three letter code, and a photo if possible. All the information can be emailed to shags@ceh.ac.uk

Lots of reports of dead seabirds in the aftermath of recent storms. Please keep an eye out for any dead colour ringed Shags and send details to shags@ceh.ac.uk

#seabirds #ornithology #winterstorm

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 “seabird wreck”, can take years for colonies to recover from...

Honoured to appear among these amazing women scientists for #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
Check out the variety of work we get up to 👇

And the best thing? There are many more women scientists working for @rspbscience.bsky.social who are also doing incredible things! 👏

#WomenInScience

Two Black Guillemots perch on rocks. White wording on a purple background reads: Work with us! Science & Engagement Intern in Northern Ireland. www.bto.org/jobs. The BTO Northern Ireland logo is in the top right corner.

We're looking for an intern in our @bto-ni.bsky.social team to focus on Science and Engagement! Apply at www.bto.org/jobs

📆 Full time, Temporary (6 months)
📝 £25,888 per annum pro rata
📌 Deadline for applications: Sunday 15 February

🐧 Record phenological responses to climate change in three sympatric penguin species

"We deployed 77 cameras across Antarctica and the Sub Antarctic islands to monitor three different species of penguins". @penguinacho

📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/5myREFf

🔊 KEYNOTE NOMINATIONS

Who would you like to see deliver a keynote at #BOU2027 ?

#BOU2027 | Avian disease ecology | 6 - 8 April 2027 | Nottingham, UK & Zoom & Bluesky

Nominate via link ⬇️

bou.org.uk/event/avi...

#ornithology 🪶

An incredible opportunity to work with the @rspb.bsky.social and Storm petrels as part of your Master's degree! 🕊️

#research #seabirds

Bio-bead pollution at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Sussex Wildlife Trust CEO Chris Corrigan speaks to ITV Meridian about how bio-bead pollution from Southern Water's wastewater treatment plant is impacting wildlife at Rye Harbour Nature…

Sussex Wildlife Trust CEO Chris Corrigan speaks to ITV Meridian about how bio-bead pollution from Southern Water's wastewater treatment plant is impacting wildlife at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.

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

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 🛰️🌊

Graphic displays a Black Guillemot photographed by Edmund Fellowes/BTO with a thought bubble extending from its head and the internal text 'Just one month to submit your breeding seabird data to the SMP!'. The SMP logo is positioned in the top left hand corner. The caption reads: 'Yes, that's right! You have until October 31st to submit your breeding seabird data to the SMP so that it can be utilised in understanding how species have faired this year! #seabirds'

Yes, that's right!
You have until October 31st to submit your breeding seabird data to the SMP so that it can be utilised in understanding how species have faired this year! #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Absolutely this 👇

This lekking season, please don’t go out looking for Capercaillie.

Instead, stay at home and watch them on the live dust bath camera at our Abernethy nature reserve!

Tune in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRR2...

#LekItBe

🎥 Male Capercaillie at the dust bath

Anthropogenic solid waste is ubiquitous in bird nests in coastal multiple use protected areas | Marine Pollution Bulletin | www.sciencedirect.co... | #ornithology 🧪🪶 #seabirds #shorebirds

Our #CormorantCams are up and running to explore how our breeding Cormorants are doing on Sheep Island and Strangford Lough!

Few sites in the UK and Ireland are consistently monitored for Cormorant productivity, so we’re excited to see what our nest cameras capture! 🌊📸

Find out more ⬇️ #ornithology

It's time to say goodbye until next winter to some of Northern Ireland's wetland wonders.

Find out why NI is so special for this winter waterbird ⬇️

#ukbirding

⚠️ Passionate about making #ornithology inclusive and diverse?

Join our team! We are looking for the next Equality and Diversity support officer to advance our work in ornithology.

🔗 bou.org.uk/about-the...

⏰ Deadline 25 April 2025

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Relax in a local greenspace and make your birdwatching count with our new Birds in Greenspaces survey - for all experience levels, anywhere in NI!

If you're in Derry-Londonderry we'd especially love your feedback to help us improve this programme.

More here ➡️ www.bto.org/greenspaces-... #ukbirding

⚠️ Passionate about science communication?

Join our team! We are looking for the next Social Media support officer

🔗 bou.org.uk/about-the...

⏰ Deadline 25 April 2025

Get in touch with our current officer if you have questions @natbzielonka.bsky.social

#ornithology 🪶

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Good boy or bad dog? Our 1 billion pet dogs do real environmental damage We don’t want to admit it, but our beloved pet dogs do a lot of environmental damage, from killing or terrifying wildlife to emissions from pet food.

"Dogs catch many types of wildlife and can injure or kill them. Their scent and droppings scare smaller animals. Then there’s the huge environmental cost of feeding these carnivores and the sheer quantity of their poo. We love our pet dogs, but they come with a very real cost."
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A good Friday afternoon read 📙 on how @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social Seabird Tracking Database has changed the face of marine conservation! MPAs, bycatch, policy and more 🕊️📈 #Seabird #SeabirdTracking

Do you have hours of videos📹with animals? Speed up your watching by using BEHAVE - a user-friendly, open-source, free, zero-install tool for coding animal behaviour in video recordings!
Try BEHAVE here: behave.claude-apps.com

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The Christian right has set the US on the road to Gilead. Without a fight, other nations may follow | Deborah Frances-White Women’s rights – especially abortion – are truly at risk, says writer and broadcaster Deborah Frances-White

The US Christian right's agenda is arriving on UK shores with alarming momentum. Over $50m from US Christian right foundations flowed into Europe between 2008-2017. Now, in 2025, these groups – emboldened by evangelism in the White House – are upping their game. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A juvenile kittiwake in the hand, wearing a 3-digit coded yellow colour ring, a red plastic ring and a metal ring.

Listen up anyone working in the Irish Sea this summer! We tagged a bunch of kitts in Liverpool Bay and want to gather as many resightings as we can. If you spot these yellow colour rings please give me a shout (dla205@exeter.ac.uk) 🐦💍💛

(Modelled by our very own VIP 😌👑)

#Seabirds #IrishSea

The 2024 Northern Ireland Seabird Report by the @btobirds.bsky.social alongside a wonderful team of volunteers and conservation groups, gives an insightful look at seabird breeding trends in the area. The report underscores encouraging recoveries and worrying declines. bit.ly/41ZTcsx

NEW BLOG in #ornithology shows why we need dedicated people on #islands to count #seabirds - we can't do it from space: buff.ly/fmntPtk The corresponding paper is here: buff.ly/0D2gi1F

1/7 Variation between individuals is important as it determines how adaptable to change a population might be. Even generalist spp are often comprised of specialist individuals, but specialisation is often only studied across single traits which is limiting.
#BOU2025 #ornithology #seabirds #ecology

🧵1/8 Welcome to #BOU2025 Frontiers in ornithology, our annual conference.

Over the next 3 days, we’ll be in-person in Nottingham, and here on Bluesky

Follow the #BOU2025 for conference threads and to join in!

#ornithology 🪶🧪

Map showing the three field sites with the breeding and wintering range of Long-tailed ducks in Europe.

It's finally out.
The migration of Long-tailed ducks from 3 Russian breeding sites.
Is the observed decline in the Baltic because ducks are staying further north? Read to find out!
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
#OpenAccess