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Faroe Islander study Seabird ecotoxicology, biomarkers - biodiversity and invasive species. Hoarder of bird skulls, feathers & eggshells. Natural history books and taxidermy are my love languages. University of Aberdeen and Glasgow alumni
2003 🇫🇴🏴🇩🇰🏴🇫🇴2017
One of our team has joined the crew of the #PitcairnExpedition2025 and #OperationGarnet, they are currently halfway between Rikitea and Pitcairn in the middle of the vast South Pacific #SeabirdSaturday #PitcairnMPA @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social
New #OA paper in the #seabird journal (@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social)! We GPS-tracked Black-legged #Kittiwakes breeding on an offshore platform in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. In short, we show that they have a short foraging range compared to coastal... 1/6 www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-37
#seabirds #conservation #hunting
Kanningar í Skúgvoy vísa, at stovnurin ikki er væl fyri, men neyðugt er við fleiri teljingum aðrastaðni í landinum
Tonight I'll be on Faroese tv news reporting on our Skúgvoy census which among other things will show Northern fulmar to have declined from 28-30.000 in 1961 and 2001 to just about 3000 pairs in 2023.
Watch live at 1900 GMT kvf.fo/live/1
#ornithology #Seabirds 🧪🌍🇫🇴🇩🇰
Great idea! - "this book mat be really boring but at least there's pizza at the end of the tunnel"
Fulmar: c. 90% reduction in 20 years (Faroes).
(Birdlife Int'l: "In Europe since declines began in mid-1980s (c. one generation) pop'n estimated to have declined by >40%.. the population size in Europe is estimated to be decreasing by 50-79% in the period 1985-2077 {c. 3 generations}.." )
People are destroying and consuming nature at a devastating rate. Birds are our early warning system. BirdLife International is the largest international Partnership for nature conservation.
Tonight I'll be on Faroese tv news reporting on our Skúgvoy census which among other things will show Northern fulmar to have declined from 28-30.000 in 1961 and 2001 to just about 3000 pairs in 2023.
Watch live at 1900 GMT kvf.fo/live/1
#ornithology #Seabirds 🧪🌍🇫🇴🇩🇰
Tonight I'll be on Faroese tv news reporting on our Skúgvoy census which among other things will show Northern fulmar to have declined from 28-30.000 in 1961 and 2001 to just about 3000 pairs in 2023.
Watch live at 1900 GMT kvf.fo/live/1
#ornithology #Seabirds 🧪🌍🇫🇴🇩🇰
The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House:
Reminded of this as an academic told me the other day that they were off to a country in South America, then one in Africa & then one in Asia, in rapid succession
I really didn’t know what to say… www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A survey at one of the biggest UK research universities finds that staff often end up flying to meetings despite a preference to avoid air travel.
I really appreciate the fact that I'm getting Turkish Google ads. I have never even been to Turkey
🪶 13 miles off Peru’s coast, the Chincha Islands were once at the heart of the 19th-century Guano Rush—where laborers died for fertilizer.
Today, they remain guarded, with guano still traded on the black market.
📸 Nick Ballon tells the story via @GemFletcher 👉 bit.ly/4e6wQdc
#Peru #Seabirds
