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Sarah Gutowsky

@halibirdnerd.bsky.social
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#Wildlife #Biologist #CWS #ECCC focused on #seabird and #waterbird #conservation status and #trends. Views are my own. She/Her. Device failure survey: forms.gle/fZW9n2dojJVBvNfy9

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Marine Ornithology @marineorno.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🚨 New paper: Comparing counts made from drone-based and boat-based photography for surveying Thick-billed murre cliff colonies. By Ewan MacDonnell, @halibirdnerd.bsky.social and @movementecology.bsky.social. #seabirds #drone #OpenAccess #survey www.marineornithology.org/PDF/54_1/54_...
Same cliff area with Thick-billed murres, captured from a boat (left side) or a drone (right side).
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Sarah Gutowsky @halibirdnerd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
To complement our #bird #biologging survey, we’re soliciting case studies to illustrate ethical, financial & scientific implications of device failure. We will not include device manufacturer or model—our intent is not to attribute failure to specific makers. If interested, please DM.
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International Bio-Logging Society @ibiols.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
You're invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments! 📡🦆🦅 . 🗓️ Deadline within next 7 weeks (~25th of May). 🔗link: lnkd.in/eKgPNX2m info below!! 👇 #ornithology #biologging #birds #birdresearch #birdtracking
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Sarah Gutowsky @halibirdnerd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#biologging #ornithology #birds #birdresearch #tracking #movementecology
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Have any of your biologging devices ever failed? ⁉️ If so, we’d like to hear from you! 👂 Researchers at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, are investigating biologger device failure rates to help improve research practices. 🎓 The survey takes just 10 minutes to complete: forms.gle/fZW9n2dojJVB...
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Anonymous survey — device failures in bird biologging studies
Purpose: We are collecting anonymous information about device failures in bird biologging research to help practitioners plan robust, ethical studies. Responses will be aggregated for a peer-reviewed ...
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European Ornithologists' Union @eounion.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Bird Biologging Survey - Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada is inviting ornithologists to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in biologger deployments. If you can take part, please see further details at cutt.ly/atIg4qVc #ornithology
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Sarah Gutowsky @halibirdnerd.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
You're invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments! 📡 🦆 Responses accepted within the next 8 weeks. 📆 Survey link is in our bio 🔗 If you have questions please email failedbiologgingdevices@gmail.com 📧
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Sarah Gutowsky @halibirdnerd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
#motmot Need I say more? My fav group from #costarica, we managed to find 3 species: turquoise-browed, lesson's & broad-billed.
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Sarah Gutowsky @halibirdnerd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
1st time on a non-work #birding trip and 1st time in #CostaRica has been a dream come true, including delivering this mega #lifer today along with >100 others so far! the thriving #ecotourism here gives me hope for the world...
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Patrick Nadeau @patnad.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
naturecounts.ca/nc/socb-epoc... In case you missed it last Fall when this was released. I'd never posted it here before. Super informative: pick your fave species and see how it has been trending.
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The State of Canada’s Birds Report
Canada’s birds have stories to tell. See how they are doing, how their populations have changed, and what you can do to help.
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Elly Knight @ellycknight.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Hey bird people! Join us in Saskatoon for SCO-SOC 2025 Conference in Aug 13-16. Symposia and workshop submissions are open now until Jan 31! conferences.usask.ca/sco-2025/ind...
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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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Margaret Stanley @ecostanley.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Really important read about the extinction of experience among ecologists - and the barriers to doing fieldwork - both in teaching & research. @kevinjgaston.bsky.social Likely to hinder our efforts to address the biodiversity crisis doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 🌏🧪
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Sarah Gutowsky @halibirdnerd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Looking for a #bird related volunteer opportunity to kick off 2025? Help us count our #fulmar survey photos to update our population estimates! Email me if you're interested. #seabirds #conservation #arctic
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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth. www.nature.com/articles/s41... New article from Davidson et al. explains the need and pathways for improving tracking data archiving and sharing tools @movebank.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Animal-borne electronic tags, or bio-loggers, are increasingly used for research and wildlife conservation. This Perspective discusses the importance of standardization, long-term archiving and sharin...
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 13/01/2025
EARLY VIEW in IBIS Using model-based distance sampling to estimate decadal population change in Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) across periods spanned by different at-sea survey methods | onlinelibrary.wiley.... T.J. Clark-Wolf et al | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
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PEC Exeter @pec-exeter.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Where are all the field studies? This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer. A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork) www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Extinction of experience among ecologists
Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the ecology community, as it could have widespread consequences for science and education, ultimately hindering efforts to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis.
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Sarah Gutowsky @halibirdnerd.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
New paper out in the journal #wildfowl - #eiders in the Bay of Fundy show alarming #declines over the past 20 yrs #seaducks #conservation #marine #northatlantic wildfowl.wwt.org.uk/index.php/wi...
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Severe declines in numbers of male American Common Eiders Somateria mollissima dresseri during spring counts over the past two decades in the southwestern Bay of Fundy, Canada | Gutowsky | Wildfowl
Severe declines in numbers of male American Common Eiders Somateria mollissima dresseri during spring counts over the past two decades in the southwestern Bay of Fundy, Canada
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New in #BirdStudy #Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu. Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology
Great Skua in Shetland
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Sarah Gutowsky @halibirdnerd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I guess it's time to introduce myself! I'm Sarah Gutowsky, a #Quantitative #Wildlife #Biologist with #Environment and #ClimateChange Canada, based in #Halifax, #NovaScotia. My specialty is #seabird and #waterbird #ecology - I help to monitor and assess the status and trends of #birds in #Canada!
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