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Laura Shearer

@seabirdshearer.bsky.social

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Seabird Scientist and Coastal Reserves Manager on Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean

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Jeff White @jeffwwhite.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Steeple Jason Island. Home to the largest Black-browed Albatross colony in the world. I spent a week in March sampling albatrosses, penguins, giant petrels, shags, and more as part of our work to understand the dynamics of HPAI in the Falklands seabird community

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Laura Shearer @seabirdshearer.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Red footed boobies do not currently nest on mainland Ascension but this season we have seen significantly more around the Letterbox NR... maybe in the next few years... 🤞 #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Laura Shearer @seabirdshearer.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Easter weekend spent #SCUBA diving on Ascension Island. Loads of fry around, these pics were taken just as we were leaving the water...

Scuba diver surrounded by lots of small fish

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Laura Shearer @seabirdshearer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

One of my favourite things is getting others involved in our seabird research... here's a juvenile masked booby learning about drone surveys #education #seabirds

Showing a masked booby fledgling our drone controller. The bird seems mildly interested.

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Tracking Ascension Island’s seabirds across borders: Learn how our Darwin+ project will help us understand how seabirds & fisheries overlap in the High Seas 🌊 Led by Ascension Island Gov with @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social, GFW, MMO & @cefasgovuk.bsky.social www.seabirdtracking.org/tracking-asc...

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Tracking Ascension Island's seabirds across borders - Seabird Tracking Database

Protected areas are a vital tool for safeguarding marine wildlife, but seabirds and other marine species often travel beyond these havens.

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

New pub: beautiful new ~35 myo skull of a flightless plotopterid bird (possibly Klallamornis) described from Washington state. Acid prepared! And big - 28 cm long! Same rock unit as some of the oldest known baleen whales on earth. Discovered by Jim Goedert. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Diagram showing the preparation of the new plotopterid skull: before, partway, and after acid preparation - the siltstone concretion is consistently smaller in each iteration.

The beautiful skull of the plotopterid bird: the rostrum looks very much like a frigatebird, with a graceful sinuous outline and a reasonably sized hook at the end.

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Laura Shearer @seabirdshearer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It's been a delight to monitor this brown noddy nest! When we checked it out yesterday, it had already fledged- they grow so quick! ☺️

Brown noddy chick getting ready to fledge

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