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Eleanor Gnam

@ejgnam2.bsky.social
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PhD candidate studying pre-breeding behavior in Leach's storm-petrels. Mediocre birder. I also like cool pens.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
American soccer fans disappointed in the men’s World Cup should join the rest of us next year for the regular World Cup.
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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Colony managers know it The literature ignores it! Many seabirds are young - juvenile, immature, subadult, prebreeder - and we know v little about them! Here's our paper on why you should care about young seabirds for conservation! W/ @ejgnam2.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/fee....
PHOTO CREDIT FRANCESCO VENTURA. (One of the best seabird researchers working now -- check out Francesco's work!). In front center left, a prebreeding Black-Browed Albatross visits the breeding colony on Steeple Jason.
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Just wait til the end…something you don’t see very often in amongst our Razorbills on the sea cliffs of the Isle of May. Quack.
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Eleanor Gnam @ejgnam2.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Another #superseabirdsunday and now it's almost the end of the field season... This is a juvenile captured in a burrow who will probably fledge in the next couple of days.
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World Seabird Union @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New study finds river otters 🦦 prey on seabirds across 73 North American islands! 🔹 Otters prefer small burrow-nesting seabirds 🔹 They’ll swim up to 8 km across open water to reach colonies 🔹 Most attacks occur on nearshore islands Full study: bit.ly/4mhJZCz
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Vote for the Subantarctic skua in this year's Bird of the Year www.birdoftheyear.org.nz/subantarctic... #teamskua #seabirds 🌍
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Vote for Subantarctic skua in this years Bird of the Year
Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year recognises our unique birds and with each vote you give them a voice.
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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
🚨 Gull Drama Seagulls - love em? Hate em? Shoot em? All of the above? 😇/😈 Our original paper about gulls in the Gulf of Maine in Cons Biol: doi.org/10.1111/cobi... Reply: doi.org/10.1111/cobi... Rejoinder: doi.org/10.1111/cobi... Don't hesitate to DM to chat, or for PDFs!
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Interspecies conflict, precarious reasoning, and the gull problem in the Gulf of Maine
Contemporary conservation science requires mediating conflicts among nonhuman species, but the grounds for favoring one species over another can be unclear. We examined the premises through which wil....
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patrickhen.bsky.social @patrickhen.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
#SuperSeabirdSunday An unusual one from yesterday. A herring gull enjoying a slice of pizza at the beachfront restaurant.
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Nicholas @petrel-nut.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Providence Petrel defending its burrow to all comers at the world’s 2nd only breeding island, Red Knoll, Phillip Island Norfolk. #SuperSeabirdSunday#Seabirds🪶
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 11/06/2025
Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats
Balloon wall art inspired by the ggplot2 hex sticker. The display features a hexagonal frame made of black balloons, filled with white balloons inside and surrounded by a background of light and dark blue balloons. A line graph with black balloon segments and round coloured nodes runs across the centre, and the word “ggplot2” is spelled out in black balloon letters below the chart.
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Phil Jones @philj61.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
How about a gorgeous Imm Belchers Gull photographed in Peru for #SuperSeabirdSunday
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Eleanor Gnam @ejgnam2.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
It's #superseabirdsunday and our Newfoundland field season has just begun! A razorbill and some other alcids on Great Island, Witless Bay (NL).
A razorbill standing on a rock, on a slope covered in puffin burrows. There are many puffins in the air and several common murres on rocks at the top of the slope.A razorbill standing on a rock, on a slope covered in puffin burrows. There are many puffins in the air and several common murres on rocks at the top of the slope
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Eleanor Gnam @ejgnam2.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Happy national puffin day to the best alcid, the razorbill (it's been a great week already for terrorizing everyone with my binocular photography)
A through-the-binocular photo of three razorbills sitting on a rock, with one flying directly in front of them. There are a few puffins sitting on grassy hummocks around the rock.
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Nicholas @petrel-nut.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A peculiar male petrel (and Storm-petrel) habit is the courtship growl- I’ve often heard it from burrows but didn’t realise it involved inflation of the throat. Some species can have a very low register for their body size. Here a White-necked Petrel gives it his all. #SuperSeabirdSunday🪶
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 08/04/2025
Splicing DNA sequenced from Rev. Thomas Bayes's crypt into a wolf embryo to make Canis parameterensis, the priorwolf
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution; a pair of Razorbills on the cliff ledges #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds
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Stuart Malcolm @birderstuart.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
A Yellow-legged Gull from Fuerteventura last week for #SuperSeabirdSunday
A gull sits on a white rail with a sea background. It is facing left. It has a yellow bill, white body, grey back & wings, black wingtips and yellow legs.
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Nicholas @petrel-nut.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Kermadec Petrel ‘606’ has done a great job as a first-time parent on Phillip Island, Norfolk. However, nest placement means every blowy day is a bad-hair-day! #SuperSeabirdSunday#Seabirds🪶
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Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Just wonderful :)
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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
New preprint on why we should care about young seabirds (a.k.a. juveniles, immatures, subadults, prebreeders) that you!☝️ might find interesting for marine conservation, future movement ecology studies, life history, etc. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #seabirds #conservation
A photograph of two seabirds (American Herring Gulls) standing on a rocky shore. The closer bird is immature, with brown feathers and a dark bill. The further bird is a breeding adult, with gray and white plumage and a yellow bill with a red spot.
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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Hello from Crystal Palace Park. A classic face-off this morning: ‘Plesiosaurus’ macrocephalus vs Gallinula chloropus
colour photo, a Plesiosaur statue ponders a passing Moorhen
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Stuart Malcolm @birderstuart.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A calling Yellow-legged Gull for #SuperSeabirdSunday
The foreground is dark grey rock. On the left is a gull with a grey back, black wingtips and a white head and neck which is raised to the sky. The beak is open. The right hand bird is standing up but facing away. It has yellow legs, a dark grey body and white neck & head. The background is the sea.
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Gwennan @gwennanbutler.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Fluffy fulmar chick #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds
A fluffy fulmar chick sitting on a bed of pebbles and grass near a rocky background.
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Tim Marshall @twmar.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Ross's Gull, Fraserburgh March 2023. #superseabirdsunday
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
It’s #SuperSeabirdSunday so here’s one of the best seabirds on the planet. A juvenile Long-tailed Skua showing all the salient ID features. Sadly, not even a description species in Norfolk now, despite their scarcity. 🤷‍♂️😬 Photo from BTO.
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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Quiet contemplation #SuperSeabirdSunday @steelyseabirder.bsky.social #ukwildlife #seabirds #photography
Razorbill on the edge of the cliff looks over the sea. 

Inner Farne Island Northumberland 2024
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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
#superseabirdsunday #northernfulmar #L #ukbirding
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Tom Cadwallender @tomcad.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
#SuperSeabirdSunday Cormorant in reflective mood, David @steelyseabirder.bsky.social #nebirding #birdsoftheworld
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Louise Blight @louiseblight.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Gray Noddy (Norfolk Island, Australia). #SuperSeabirdSunday #birds #aves
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Eleanor Gnam @ejgnam2.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I'm so here for #tubenosestuesday!! Another of our Leach's storm-petrels from Witless Bay, Newfoundland, plus perhaps my favorite LHSP picture yet:
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Nicholas @petrel-nut.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I’d go for #TubenosesTuesday Colleague doing PhD on terns on Phillip Is, Norfolk sent me a snap yesterday of one of my returning Kermadec fledglings with GLS attached, overflying the colony (in the company of a White-necked Petrel). I’m 1200 km away. Bird didn’t land🫤#Seabirds
A dark bird and light- coloured bird against a blue sky. Dark coloured bird can be seen with a small tracking device on right leg
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Rebecca Cheape @rebeccacheape97.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Tysties aka The Black Guillemot in Oban, West Coast of Scotland ☺️ One of my favourite Seabirds. #Seabirdsunday #Blackguillemot
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Peter Howlett @cardiffbirder.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Going back to New Zealand in March for this lovely Cape Petrel #birds #superseabirdsunday
A bird with a black head and whiye front swims towards the photographer. The black bill has the two tubes on top characteristic of the petrels and albatrosses
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paulrods16.bsky.social @paulrods16.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Competing Gannets for #SuperSeabirdSunday 🪶
Three Gannets emerging and frantically splashing from the sea, each competing to take hold of a single fish.
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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
When Uber Eats delivers to the wrong address @steelyseabirder.bsky.social #SuperSeabirdSunday #ukwildlife #photography
Common guillemot lands on a rock holding food for a chick. A European shag looks over from the other side of the rock like an angry neighbour. Inner Farne Island, Northumberland 2024.
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Gwennan @gwennanbutler.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Portrait of a razorbill #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds
A close-up of a razorbill perched on a lichen-covered rock. The background is the deep blue of the sea.
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Eleanor Gnam @ejgnam2.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
For #SuperSeabirdSunday: two handsome great black-backed gull fledglings with some alcid neighbors on Great Island, Newfoundland
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Badger Wetherhill @ptarmiganthony.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This year’s Christmas Cake decoration is a delightful Antarctic scene, where a Southern Giant Petrel feasts upon an ex-penguin. Nollaig Chridheil. #seabirds
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Tom Lansley @tomlansley.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
A Scottish #Razorbill for #SuperSeabirdSunday
Black and white Razorbill side view.
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Huw Griffiths @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
#SuperSeabirdSunday on a very windy west #Wales beach!
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Gwennan @gwennanbutler.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
An adult Herring gull with their three chicks #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds
An adult Herring gull standing on a rock. To the right of the adult stands three of its grey fluffy chicks.
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Louise Blight @louiseblight.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
"Gulls are intelligent, vital birds that deserve our protection, not scorn" www.salon.com/2024/10/20/g...
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Why gulls don't deserve the hate
There’s a lot we get wrong about our least favorite seabirds
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Eleanor Gnam @ejgnam2.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
At the Field Museum on this #SuperSeaBirdSunday! Razorbills really are the best alcid
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Barry Yates @rxnature.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
A Common Tern glides cross a calm saline lagoon at Rye Harbour, a @sussexwildlife.bsky.social reserve. #superseabirdsunday
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Nick Robinson @nickerobinson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
‪A Bermuda petrel photographed off of #Bermuda on 16th November 2021 while on a trip organised by www.scillypelagics.com #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds #Wildlfe #Photography
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John Tweedie @johntweedie.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Lesser Black-backed Gull chick on the Isle of May.‪ #SuperSeabirdSunday
Lesser Black-backed Gull chick on the Isle of May with an adult behind.Lesser Black-backed Gull chick nestling in the vegetation on the Isle of May.‪
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Eleanor Gnam @ejgnam2.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
American herring gull with their brood on Gull Island, NL for #SuperSeabirdSunday!
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Elaine Freezer @elainefreezer.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Good Morning and a Happy #SuperSeabirdSunday to Everyone. Today's contribution is one very happy Razorbill
A Razorbill
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