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Shivira

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Seabird Researcher • She/Her Alum @edinburghnapier.bsky.social Member @indianseabirdgroup.bsky.social indianseabirdgroup.wixsite.com/webs…

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Udit Nair @uditnair.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Behavioural repertoire and the onset of precocious sexual behaviours in juvenile ruffs (Calidris pugnax) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Finally the paper is published.
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Behavioural repertoire and the onset of precocious sexual behaviours in juvenile ruffs (Calidris pugnax)
Adult phenotypes are shaped by developmental processes during early life. This also applies to reproduction and dominance-related behaviours before maturation, called precocious sexual behaviours. ...
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Shivira @shivira.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
#WomenInSTEM alert! #AcademicSky 🧪
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Shivira @shivira.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
A collaborative effort to improve our understanding of seabirds distribution along the coast of India - check it out here! 🌍🪶🧪
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Stephanie Peters @spetersartist.com · 18/05/2025
For #seabirdsunday a shearwater skipping on the sea (taking off technically)! I wonder what is it like to take off from the water… Pastel and watercolor on panel. #birding #seabird
Shear water skipping on the sea
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Shivira @shivira.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Petrel-passionate people, check out this blog post on ringing Storm Petrels in Cornwall by @sabiyasheikh.bsky.social for the @indianseabirdgroup.bsky.social! #AcadmicSky #WomenInSTEM #Seabirds 🌍🪶🧪
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Shivira @shivira.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Anyone into seabirds, food webs, and tropical ecosystems? I am attending this talk tomorrow - feel free to join in! 🌏🪶 #WomenInSTEM #Seabirds #AcademicSky
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper is out, lead by @alixdejersey.bsky.social showing the insidious impacts of plastics on seemingly health birds (1/5) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Seabirds in crisis: Plastic ingestion induces proteomic signatures of multiorgan failure and neurodegeneration
Plastic consumption in seabirds causes blood signatures of widespread organ damage including brain, stomach, kidney, and liver.
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Indian Seabird Group @indianseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Frequent in the Northwest Indian Ocean, these Jouanin Petrels were spotted in the Arabian Sea, 300 miles off the western coast of Maharashtra🌍 by Sushil Kumar. Happy #SuperSeabirdSunday from India! #Seabirds #Ornithology #IndianOcean 🪶
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Indian Seabird Group @indianseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Mirror mirror, on the water! A Red-footed Booby gliding over the open waters off Kochin, India 🌍 Shared with us by Sushil Kumar. #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds #Ornithology #IndianOcean 🪶
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Alice Risely @alice-risely.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
We're getting some cracking photo submissions to the Gulls Eating Stuff project! Here are a few showing gulls predating a coot chick, a vole, a mole (!) and a GBBG that has just killed an adult moorhen. Keep 'em coming! Submit your photos of gulls eating stuff to citsci.org/projects/gul....
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Rowan Kuminski @rowankuminski.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I wish I could contribute more to the initiatives trying to make up for the unjust grant cuts attacking important EDI projects in the US. But if you're now crowd-funding for a project and need someone to do graphic design for anything, message me and I'd be happy to volunteer my services
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Indian Seabird Group @indianseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Where are all the Antarctic aficionados? We bring to you the daily lives of Adelies for #SuperSeabirdSunday! Photo taken at McLeod Island, Larsemann Hills, Antarctica 🌏 by our team member Anant Pande. #Seabirds #Penguins #Ornithology 🪶
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Shivira @shivira.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
📢 The Galapagos rail has been rediscovered on Floreana Island in the Galapagos after almost two centuries! Long-term monitoring programs are ESSENTIAL for the conservation and recovery of endangered species. 🌍🪶🧪 #ornithology @darwinfoundation.bsky.social www.darwinfoundation.org/en/news/all-...
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Galapagos Rail Rediscovered on Floreana - Charles Darwin Foundation
Scientists from the Charles Darwin Foundation confirm the presence of the Galapagos Rail on Floreana Island for the first time in 190 years.
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Shivira @shivira.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Shear drama (pun intended) in the Indian Ocean 🌍🪶 #seabirds #ornithology #SuperSeabirdSunday
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Global Ecology 🌐 starter pack vol 1 & 2 are full and curated !! ✨💚 Please share so they will fly into the blue sky 🦋🌈 Vol1 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack... Vol2 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack... Will start a Vol. 3 soon, please reply if you want to be in ! 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁🦑🪴🦉🐍🌾
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Got some artistic skills? Enter our Seabird Pride t-shirt competition! 🕊️🏳️‍🌈🎽 Details below ⬇️ #SeabirdPride2025
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Shivira @shivira.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Tropical seabirders alert! The Indian Seabird Group is finally on Bluesky with our first Researcher in Focus talk of 2025, featuring Dr. Suresh Kumar and Rajdeep Mitra from the Wildlife Institute of India. What's up with the nesting #seabirds of the Northern Indian Ocean? Join us as we find out! 🌏🪶
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74. Go on girl. 😍
A screenshot of a social media post from USFWSPacific that reads:

"SHE DID IT AGAIN!  

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, is back with a new partner and just laid yet another egg.  

At an approximate age of 74, the queen of seabirds returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week and began interacting with a male."  

This tweet is paired with an image of two Laysan Albatrosses at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Wisdom, the oldest known wild bird, is shown alongside her new partner, demonstrating her enduring legacy as a remarkable seabird.
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Shivira @shivira.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I approve of this pigeon propaganda 🥹🤍
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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
A giraffe weevil (Trachelophorus giraffa) from east-central Madagascar. This cool creature wouldn't stop moving , so photography was kinda like running alongside a car and shooting. A tiny red car unlike any other cars.... 🌿 #insects #invertebrates #InverteFest
A most unusual weevil poses on a green leaf. The wing covers on the abdomen are a brilliant ruby red, while the rest of the insect is shiny black. The thorax is angled to point up, and then the long, twig-like neck angles down to the horizontal - between the neck, thorax, and abdomen, there is a distinct bend in the animal's body. The head is small and two long antennae with reddish tips point forward in a wide V shape.
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Shivira @shivira.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
To everyone into #seabirds, we at the Indian Seabird Group are hosting Milan Sojitra as the first guest for our Researcher in Focus series - join us to learn how extreme weather affects the population dynamics of marine predators! Get notified when we go live: www.youtube.com/live/TUf0dBD... 🌍🪶🧪
A researcher holding a bird chick with the title researcher in focus understanding the effects of extreme weather events on seabirds and seals
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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Coral fungus from Ranomafana, Madagascar. I don't know much about coral fungi but this one was just blazing next to the trail and I couldn't stop looking at it. #NaturePhotography #fungi 🌿
A small log is horizontal across the image and in front of it are two pink coral fungi, with a small green plant between them.  The stems of the fungi are round in profile, and there are branches here and there.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 20/11/2024
A four panel comic. In panel 1, a little grey songbird is perched on a branch overlooking a golden field with some dogwoods and bare trees. It says "Hi! Just a small songbird over here." In panel 2, we zoom in on the songbird who says "A harmless songbird. Nothing to worry about." In panel 3, more zoom, and the bird says "No murder is about to happen. Not even a little murder!" In panel 4 we have fully zoomed in on the Northern Shrike. Its eye glows a little red and it says "Well, maybe a little".
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Shivira @shivira.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
As we discuss the Slender-billed Curlew extinction, I think focusing on key takeaways is vital: timely species assessments, understanding both the breeding and wintering ranges, and including ecological connectivity data in conservation plans. 🌍🪶🧪 #ornithology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Global extinction of Slender‐billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)
In the current biodiversity crisis, conservation efforts are often focused on extinction prevention. However, it can be difficult to determine if a species is extinct, especially if the species has a...
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Her Highness, the Great Frigatebird Chick Great Frigatebirds are aerial acrobats and will often steal meals from other seabirds. Great Frigatebird chicks take a long time to develop, fledging in 4-6 months, depending on food supply. Isla Seymour Norte, Galapagos Islands
An American football shaped bird with an orange head, fluffy down around the neck and down the chest, and brown feathers coming in on the wings and back.
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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory
A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.
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Shivira @shivira.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
#WomenInSTEM alert! Hi, I am a wildlife biologist interested in #ornithology and all our feathered friends, but my favourite child is #seabirds! I will be following/posting/interacting with seabird research in particular, but I will also share my past research on Illegal Wildlife Trade! 🌍🪶🧪
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