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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Slow motion perspective of my now-regular neighbours, the Hummingbird hawk-moths! #Lepidoptera #Sphingidae

Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The hummingbird hawk #moth (Macroglossum stellatarum). It’s been a while since we last met. Convergent #evolution is super cool! #WildFrance !

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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The #wildfire smoke in interior #BritishColumbia is horrendous right now, but we still gotta cool off!

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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

If you are #publishing in #science please make sure you review at least twice as many papers as you publish. If you are an editor please broaden your reach to other scientists and don’t contact the same reviewers too often. #peerreview #academia

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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Completely agree, the misinformation being thrown around! The media outlets, including the ABC, are at fault too for not vetting their experts ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It would be nice if the Australian media would source information about avian influenza from avian veterinarians and disease ecologists rather than just birders and ecologists with wild untested hypotheses. #H5N1 #birdflu #avianinfluenza

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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Not a first for Phillip Island on the ground. I have several observations from Phillip Island in January 2020 including this one observed January 12, 2020.

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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The circular #seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people

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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Population genetic diversity, structure and relatedness in the cryptic Pilbara Olive Python. Zoë Hamilton The Biodiversity Conference

Pilbara Olive python illustration @terngirl.

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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🎃 Halloween costumes 👻 to scare scientists!!!

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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Partnerships between Nyangumarta Warrarn Aboriginal Corporation & DBCA have uncovered diversity of native bees in Walyarta Conservation Park. Sugarbag bee identified as high value to Nyangumarta people. 36 taxa recorded, 9 undescribed. Melaleuca spp. critical host. The Biodiversity Conference 2025.

Essington's Austral-Stingless Bee Austroplebeia essingtoni illustration by @terngirl

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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Dorian Moro & Wiluna Martu Rangers. A site was identified by rangers in healthy spinifex. Ground searches found scats, active burrows & tracks. Remote cameras confirmed tjakurra, the first for Matuwa Kurrawa NP / IPA. Surveys have identified 116 active burrows. Biodiversity Conference 2025.

Great desert skink, Liopholis kintorei, illustration by @terngirl

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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Great overview of the Yagarrajalajalan Nagula Buru Project which is tagging green sea turtles and dugongs to identify and map how turtles, dugongs and humans all use Yawuru Saltwater Country (around Broome in Western Australia). www.yagarrajalajalan-nagula-buru.org TheBiodiversity Conference 2025

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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

In spring, over a billion Bogong moths travel from all over SE Australia to a place they have never been before, Alpine caves, to spend the summer in aestivation. In Autumn the same individual returns to its breeding ground & dies. How do they do it? Prof Eric Warrant. The Biodiversity Conference.

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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Securing the future of the Critically Endangered Margaret River Hairy Marron #crayfish Kim William DBCA The Biodiversity Conference

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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

@judydunlop.bsky.social tells us about the TOAD CONTAINMENT ZONE to prevent cane toads from reaching the Pilbara. The Biodiversity Conference

The toad containment zone illustration @terngirl

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CEBC Predateurs Marins team @predateursmarins.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Post-doc position at CEBC to work on quantitative genetics of albatross populations using pedigree and genomic data. Info and application at emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Contact Timothée Bonnet for more details #postdoc #seabirds #Genomics

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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Good evening from Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 🍁

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 15/09/2025

Good news everybody! The Independent Planning Commission just REFUSED the bid to restart Redbank Power Station, noting unacceptable negative impacts on native flora and fauna. Common Sense prevails! www.ipcn.nsw.gov.au/cases/restar...

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Restart of Redbank Power Station | Independent Planning Commission

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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Good morning from #BritishColumbia if you zoom in you can see the dorsal of a bull transient killer whale

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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Cracker of a waterfall on the #britishcolumbia central coast 🇨🇦

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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Steller sea lions in the beautiful Pacific Northwest #britishcolumbia #Canada

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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · 11/08/2025

In Singleton to address the NSW Independent Planning Commission regarding a proposal to clear half a million hectares of woodlands in Western NSW, intended as biomass feedstock for Redbank Power Station. In my professional opinion this will push embattled outback flora and fauna closer to extinction

Cream brick building with ‘Singleton Council Civic Centre’ on one wall, and a bronze sculpture of a bearded chap with a wide brimmed hat. No relation.

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Stuart Corney @corneystuart.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

New paper led by PhD student Ben Viola. We used shipboard data to better understand how snow petrels associate with their marine habitat! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Pretty good day at sea in Bass Strait with some nice #seabirds and a few Antarctic Minke #Whales among other cetaceans. 🐋 🐦

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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

All the way across the sky!

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Atlantic Laboratory for Avian Research @alar-unb.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Our new paper (early view out now!) details an unexpected triangular pattern of migration for Crested Auklets. 95% of our tagged birds spent time in the Chukchi Sea and Sea of Okhotsk before returning to their nesting site. Is it time to re-write the distribution maps? 🧪🐧🦑 doi.org/10.1093/orni...

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Conservation implications of wide-ranging year-round movement and distribution of Aleutian Island breeding Aethia cristatella (Crested Auklets)

Abstract. Despite representing a crucial conservation concern, challenges in measuring seabird movement outside the breeding season remain. Among Alcidae,

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Third paper from our #Seabird Journal #37 - @bennett-sophie.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social 📄📘 "Growth of seaweed species on GLS logger attachments" (short note) 🌱⌚ Check it out here! -> doi.org/10.61350/sbj...

A Common guillemot with rings and a red GLS logger, which has seaweed growing from it.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️

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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

An obligate nocturnal foraging seabird: the Swallow-tailed Gull. Happy to have been part of Sebastian Cruz’s research on this topic: www.marineornithology.org/article?rn=1... #seabirds #gulls #Galapagos 🇪🇨

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Marine Ornithology

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