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Claudia Tapia Harris

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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Two of the world’s largest Gannet colonies may not recover from the impact of bird flu until 2041 at the earliest, study finds Read a summary: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... Full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111887 #seabirds #hpai 🪶 🧪

Caption: A pair of Gannets

Credit: RSPB / Chelsie Jones

Alt text: Two Gannets with pale yellow heads and blue eyes touching beak tips and arching necks in a courtship display against a blurred grey sea background.

Figure 3 from the paper: (A): Estimated impact of reduced adult survival in 2022 on colony growth trajectories for the Bass Rock and Grassholm gannet colonies (orange line) compared to a theoretical baseline scenario without an outbreak (grey line) until the year 2045. Blue dots represent drone-based count data; Bass Rock 2023 and 2024 (Harris et al., 2023, Burton et al., 2024), Grassholm 2023 and 2024 (Morgan et al., 2023; Morgan and Stephens, 2024). (B) The residual between the baseline and HPAI scenarios highlights the scale of the impact and the long recovery times for both colonies. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)

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Lucy Wright @lucy-wright.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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Two fieldworkers sit on a clifftop amongst the grass and wildflowers watching seabirds with a telescope and binoculars. The sun is shining, the sky is blue, the sea is shimmering turquoise, and all is good!

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