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Dr A.M.T. Labbé

@amtlabbe.bsky.social

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Marine ornithologist. Southern Hemisphere. 🇦🇺🇷🇪🇲🇫 WASCN- Western Australian Seabird Conservation Network Inc.

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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Silhouette of a darter drying its wings on a limestone rock against a sparkling blue background of sea and sky

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Easterly winds apparently!

Photo shows crested terns lined up in the same direction on a jetty above cristal clear water and a bright blue sky with ciro-stratus clouds

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Sometimes I pay attention to birds that are not seabirds!

Photo looking up inside a Jacarandah canopy where 3 tawny frogmouts stand close together on a branch. The adult looks down at the camera while the two chicks snooze with their heads tucked in their feathers

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I'll be talking about all this at #AOC2025 tomorrow afternoon. #seabirds

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Fledging cuteness 🥰🩵🩵🩵

Photo showing an ornithologist holding a shearwater fledgling in her gloved hands. The background is bright blue skynand dull-gree bushes.

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Spots the crested tern chicks! #seabirds

Close up of crested terns laying low on the sand and plants sheltering their fluffy chicks under their wings and beneath their bodies.

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Crested tern breeding season now playing. #seabirds

3 crested tern pairs copulating on a beach with small waves in the background. Very bright sunlight flooding the photo

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The tough life of Australian sealions on a sunny day...

Two sealions sprawling in the sand, on the beach near the water, with a lot of weeds on the foreground.

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Dr Erin Clitheroe will be giving a presentation on the dwindling population of little penguins in Shoalwater. Free entry, and refreshments provided. Saturday 30th Aug, 9.30am in Rockingham. #seabirds

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Light mantled sooty albatross washed up in Perth today. 😢 obviously a bit out of its usual range

Dead light mantled sooty albatross laying on beach sand

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Everyone is sick of WA's election talks, but our little WA Seabird Conservation Network got a 1 pager in the newspaper today! 🙂 #Seabirds

Picture of newspaper article which shows 3 seabird photos, one of a fairy tern colony near 4WD on the beach, one of a fledgling little penguin in a researcher's hands, and one of a parent fairy tern feeding its fledgling a fish on the beach

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Nesting Pelicans obliterating the vegetation that other seabirds rely on to breed. The big guano producers were displaced from Mandurah and now have nowhere else to nest. A bit of a conservation headache... 🤔 #Seabirds #ornithology #WesternAustralia

Photo showing barren land under lots of Pelicans at sunset, with the Indian Ocean in the background. Only a few patches of struggling vegetation remain.

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Occasionally, a stupid bird decides that nesting under steps is an excellent idea, and they need some extra help to stay safe until the chick can relocate. Pretty sure this pair has been photographed by every visitor to the island... #seabirds

Bridled tern incubating its egg under footsteps, with added fence cover over it so it does not get crushed by visitors and two bright orange witches hats

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Well, there are two types of seabirds, the ones that carry fish in their bills, and the ones that .... errr... don't... and regurgitate instead. This breeding season has been pretty good so far in Western Australia for the terns and noddies. Ocean conditions are 👍🌊🐟🐟🐟 #seabirds

A pair of bridled terns sitting on a fence, one regurgitates a fish to its mate.

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Fieldwork has been pretty sweet lately. #seabirds

Crested tern landing in bushes along the coast

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The good news is that so far this breeding season, there does not appear to be any HPAI H5Nx in Western Australia. But we did have a few scares with botulism strain B!

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Dr A.M.T. Labbé @amtlabbe.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Happy to see more people on BlueSky. I'm still wondering how much of my seabird work to share on this platform however.

Bridled tern sitting on an emergency switch box.

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