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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

BREAKING: Police Scotland have declared a major incident as the Cairngorms wildfire is becoming more 'unpredictable' All residents of Nethy Bridge are being evacuated as the fire spreads towards the village

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RSPB Scotland @rspbscotland.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A new study has revealed the devastating long-term impact of bird flu on Gannets ⚠️ Two of the world's largest Gannet colonies, including Bass Rock, are not expected to recover until 2041 after adult mortality soared during the 2022 outbreak. Discover more: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

1/ The latest Winter Gull Survey revealed that over the two decades since the last count, the total number of gulls wintering in the UK has decreased from 3.9 million to just under 2.5 million! 📉 #Ornithology #Seabirds 📖 Read the report www.bto.org/WinGSReport

A greyscale image features a Common Gull flying with its wings outstretched which fill the screen. Wording alongside reads: 1.4 Million Gulls Vanished.

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Jude Lane @heyjooode.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Our new research shows that HPAI increased Northern Gannet mortality by a factor of ~6 and ~4 at two of the world’s largest colonies. We predict this impact will take almost two decades to recover from. #biologicalconservation #seabirds #hpai Full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111887

Adult gannet (left) with colour ring on it's leg left inscribed with a unique code, and it's fully grown chick (right)

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Biosecurity for LIFE @biosecuritylife.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Worrying news from Mousa in #Shetland with sightings of rat on the island. #Mousa is home to the largest population of European Storm Petrel in the UK, a sparrow sized ground nesting #seabird particularly vulnerable to invasive predators. @rspbscotland.bsky.social www.shetnews.co.uk/2026/04/30/w...

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Warning over threat to birds after rat seen on Mousa

The uninhabited island hosts the UK’s largest breeding population of storm petrels

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

New paper with @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social in ES&T: We know Sable Shearwaters show measurable harm from plastic ingestion but this isn't just a story about one species. 🧵 1/3 📄 doi.org/10.1021/acs....

The head of a Sable Shearwater being held, illuminated with a headtorch light

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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Emperor Penguin now Endangered!🐧 Our new IUCN Red List assessment reveals the shocking impact of climate change.🌍 Drastic declines and erratic changes in sea ice in Antarctica are projected to cause the Emperor Penguin population to halve by the 2080s.📉 Read more👉 www.birdlife.org/emperorpenguin

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Jim Lennon @alcatorda17.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Puffins from the Shiant Isles are having a tough winter of it with an almost unprecedented 'wreck' on European coasts.

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The 2025 #seabird breeding results are in from the Isle of May: Razorbills fledged 0.63 chicks per pair - right on the long-term average. Even better: 91.2% survival, well above the long-term average of 83.9% Strong productivity + excellent survival = a really encouraging year for #Razorbills. 💚

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

2026 Training Grants are now open! 📢🕊️ Are you: 📏 Hoping to gain experience with #seabirds via unpaid work? 🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too) 💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food) Info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant Apply by 28 Feb 💌

Person lying on a forest floor grubbing for Storm petrels.
Image: Ingrid Pollet.

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RSPB Scotland @rspbscotland.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Berwick Bank could kill more birds than any other windfarm on Earth, devastating colonies of Gannets, Puffins and Kittiwakes off Scotland’s coast. 🚨 We support renewables, but not at catastrophic cost to seabirds already in crisis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JE...

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Add your voice to a campaign to stop an offshore wind farm that threatens seabirds

YouTube video by RSPB

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

⚠️ BTO research predicts devastating declines in seabird populations in Britain & Ireland under future climate change. Some species face staggering losses by 2050, with up to 90% declines for Puffin and more than 70% declines for Arctic Tern and Fulmar. ➡️ bit.ly/seabirds-climate #Ornithology

Image of a Puffin on water (credit: Sam Langlois) with a large arrow pointing downwards beside it. Wording reads: Puffin abundance down by 90% by 2050. Seabird abundance projections under climate change. #BTOScience Bit.ly/seabirds-climate

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Hugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

We witnessed an exhilarating apex predator event yesterday as the 64s Orcas cruised through Bressay Sound here in Shetland. We've recorded them attacking birds many times in the last 25 years but the skill to hunt this drake Common Eider was incredible. #MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK

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Nicholas @petrel-nut.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A sleepy view of a pair of Black-winged petrels on a lazy afternoon, Phillip Island Norfolk. #SuperSeabirdSunday🪶

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

⚠️ Please report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. #UKBirding 📌In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/rep... 📌In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/services/dae... 📌In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report

Deceased Common Gull on ground with wings outstretched. Image by Dawn Balmer.

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Skokholm Island @skokholmisland.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Yesterday the Puffin army returned, creeping closer and closer which allowed us to do a whole-island count. A staggering 13,174 were counted rafting, the highest number since 1934! Today, they made their first 2025 landfall, two days earlier than the 2013-2024 first birds ashore mean. Welcome home!

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Early release: The first paper from Seabird 37 has been released! 📰 "Tracking of Black-legged kittiwakes from an offshore platform in the Dutch North Sea during summer" 🕊️🗼: @robvanbemmelen.bsky.social et al. (2025). Read the full paper here 👀 -> doi.org/10.61350/sbj...

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Nicholas @petrel-nut.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The Southern Shark Ecology Group has been tracking Tigers in the waters around Norfolk Island, with arrival and departure the same as Wedge-tailed Shearwaters. A huge 75% of their diet is seabirds! We are in the 1st stage of a collab to see if shark and shearwater migration areas match.#Seabirds🪶

Large shark held against a boat with tether ropes. Ocean around boat is calm. A person is leaning on side of vessel

Grassy trail on a slope at night with several large birds alighted in the medium foreground and distance

Large grey seabird being held with on leg extended. The leg has a bulky device affixed to the leg. The lighting shows it is nighttime.

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Conor Ryan @whalenerd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Wilson's storm petrels, feeding in shallow waters (on amphipods, I think). Watch closely to see some fully submerging. This is the second time I've seen them diving. At Melchior Islands. #seabirds

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Martin George @jannerbirder.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

From pilfering chips to swallowing whole starfish, gulls are known for their voracious appetites. University of Salford ecologist @alice-risely.bsky.social wants people to upload their snaps of hungry gulls to the project's website: citsci.org/projects/gul... #seabirds

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Scientists probe gulls' 'weird and wonderful' eating habits

Photographs of gulls eating anything from chips to starfish will help solve a scientific puzzle.

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Sarah Gutowsky @halibirdnerd.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Ok #superseabirdsunday, I'll play! Here are some northern #fulmars doing what they do best at the flow edge of Admiralty Inlet in #Nunavut #Arctic #Canada

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Lewis Pugh Foundation @lewispughfdn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

From a family of great penguins to the solo little penguin, get to know your penguin family tree this #PenguinAwarenessDay! 🐧💙

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Nicholas @petrel-nut.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Subtropical breeding, surface-nesting Kermadec petrel chick on Phillip Island off Norfolk. Study in its 8th year. At one of our sub-colonies aptly named ‘Mars’. Feeling immensely privileged to have such access. #SuperSeabirdSunday 🪶

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Happy new year everyone! ✨🎉 Our training grant applications are now open! The deadline for applications is the 28th of February. To apply for our training grants, click the following link or use the website as stated below: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants

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Gwennan @gwennanbutler.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Had a lovely Christmas bonus this morning while walking the dogs, when a juvenile white-tailed eagle flew super low over the village 🥰🦅

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World Seabird Union @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Great skua recovery at Hermaness and Noss national nature reserves is slow following the H5N1 influenza strain outbreak of 2022. Juan Brown of NatureScot shares more in an article for Sky News buff.ly/3BynKqX #seabirds

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Seabird recovery 'painfully slow' after threatened species hit by killer bird flu

It could decades for the population of great skua at Shetland's national nature reserves to get back to pre-virus levels.

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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 12/12/2024

Marine heat wave confirmed cause of death for 4 million birds (Common Murres) in 2016. Half of Alaska’s Common Murre population at the time. Largest documented animal die-off in modern history. As little as 2C temp increase drastically their altered food chain. 🧪🌎🦉 www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘Blob’ heat wave killed millions of seabirds—and they haven’t bounced back

Historic 2016 event may have permanently altered northern Pacific ecosystem

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Sofia Bolumar @turriachedda.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🍽️ Think again! Finally, our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed. And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open.🧑‍🍳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Fluff ball update! Our last two Storm-petrel chicks in the nest boxes on Nólsoy (Faroe Islands) are SO CLOSE to fledging now. Here's some pics from Jens-kjeld on 28th November. Will they fledge this week?? Fledglings have been seen on Christmas Day before in the Faroes! #TeamPetrel #PetrelPhD

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Gwennan @gwennanbutler.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A puffin peaking out from its burrow during my time on Skokholm this spring #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

A puffin looks out from within a burrow. It is facing towards the camera

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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Mass bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in early 2024 was the most severe and most widespread yet recorded - surpassing 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2022. The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Out now!🔊 The SMP Report provides an overview of the status of the UK’s breeding #seabirds since 1986. It further highlights declines as shown by the recent Seabirds Count, a census of Britain & Ireland’s seabirds. Read the report➡️ www.bto.org/smp-publications @rspb.bsky.social #Ornithology

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