2/4 #WSTC5 #BehaSesh A video camera deployed on a wandering #albatross breeding on Marion Island showed how the bird caught a presumably live squid from below the ocean surface.

4/4 #WSTC5 #BehaSesh | If #wind does effect foraging selection, we can use these results to start predicting how #seabirds may adapt their foraging selection as wind patterns continue to change. Thank you, please follow for updates #conservation #ecology #TeamGull

The #WSTC5 talk on the latest study by BalticSeabird, Dr. Natalie Isaksson, Tom Evans, Olof Olsson & Susanne Åkesson (tandfonline.com/eprint/Hq2Zm2y…) is on April 9 at 1200 UTC (1400 in Sweden)! See you then!

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Almost ½ of all pelagic seabird pops are declining. For example, Sooty Shearwaters are declining worldwide, but may be increasing on Kidney island, Falklands. However, they nest in complex burrows up to 3m deep, making them hard to census. #seabirds

Curious about where, how & when the Stora Karlsö razorbills forage for fish to feed their chicks during summer, and other exciting seabird research? Join Twitter & #WSTC5 April 9-11!

#WSTC5 #ConsSesh3 Golondrinasdeldesierto 1/4 Markham’s SP is a Humboldt 🌊 specialist, DD by IUCN Red List & #Endangered in 🇨🇱 Main threats 👉🏼 disturbance in colonies & #lightpollution 💡🐣 ~20,000 🐦 fall every year in northern 🇨🇱👉🏼 One of the worst #fallout events all over 🌎

4/4 #WSTC5 #GenSesh | Since the winter pop forms a monophyletic clade, this may be evidence that breeding time limits dispersal in LSPs. A higher resolution tree & outgroup is needed to assess Atlantic vs. Pacific divergence, & whether land limits dispersal. More to come soon…

2/ #WSTC6 #ContSesh1 | We documented #plastic presence for each species during incubation. Plastic was in 80% of #shag nests, 53% of GBB gulls, 35% of herring gulls & 25% of LBB #gull & cormorant nests. We looked at herring #gull nests further in #WSTC5 : tinyurl.com/herguWSTC5

Probably the sexiest skua paper ever #WSTC5 #ornithology #teamskua #breeding Read more on: dof.dk/om-dof/publika…

2 #WSTC5 #ForSesh2 35 species of 🐟 and more than 10 species of 🐦(mainly #auk and #fulmars ) identified as the main prey but increasing presence of other marine species (e.g. 🦑🐙🦀) and terrestrial mammals (e.g. 🐀🐇) along the years. #TeamSkua

Here is great example: savethedevil.net/watch-a-trailer I am putting in an unabashed plug for some amazing people working for #seabirds #WSTC5

#WSTC5 #ConsSesh3 #ROC 4/4 Citizen science 🐧🔭👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 and new techs (trail cameras and drones) appears like an alternative for improving the knowledge 📕 for most of the 🐦 (important 🏝/abundance/📈). Follow us in redobservadores.cl and Golondrinasdeldesierto!

4/4 #WSTC5 #DistSesh Now we just need MORE #CommunityScience data to really map #SouthernOcean #seabirds well. Cruising the #Antarctic soon? Help us by doing #eBird surveys yourself (ebird.org), or through The Polar Citizen Science Collective. More info here: polarcollective.org

4/4 #WSTC5 #ToolSesh To apply these tools to your own system, take into account the practicalities of setup, maintenance, and processing. Let’s work together to standardize data collection across sites and species to improve comparability! Review paper: seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-31-1

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1⃣ Diet of GS show 🔽in 🐟 spp whose discards were banned in 2015, except from St.Kilda, in which diet composition significantly differ from Shetland colonies due to little 🎣or #discards
2⃣Models show 🐟has sign 🔽, while the 🐦 has sign 🔼 since 2014!

4/4 #WSTC5 #ForSesh2 Scopoli's shearwaters showed sex-specific #foraging tactics, but when #wind intensity increased both sexes were more likely to switch to the CF tactic, suggesting a reduction of energetic costs associated with dynamic #soaring .

#WSTC5 #ConsSesh3 #ROC 2/4 In the 📕 period, the first King 🐧 colony was established in 🇨🇱, the distribution of several 🐦 (e.g. Inca Tern) was better understood, and we learned that in several species some breeding grounds disappeared (e.g. Magellanic 🐧) in the last 50 years.

1 #ContSesh1 My first #WSTC5 My undergrad dissertation UoR BioSci I collected great skua pellets from Fair Isle Fair Isle Bird Obs and analysed their prey and plastic content, as an indicator of the #MarinePlastic ingestion by the species and their prey. 3% of pellets contained plastic.

4/4 #WSTC5 Agnes Olin Kirsty Franklin @sk8sbd Nati Rosciano 20b @grwhumps wordsanddeeds Sjúrður Hammer, PhD 🇫🇴 @[email protected] Dr Elodie Camprasse (she/her) 👩‍🔬🗺️🤿📷. Great service to @seabirders community! If ever local, drop by for some homemade pizza cooked at 900F (yep - hot enough to ash fish!)
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In sum, tussac grass and habitat restoration may support Sooty Shearwater and burrowing seabird #conservation . If interested, please check out our pub on this at: bit.ly/2uWjknA. Or learn about crazy complex seabird burrows: bit.ly/2X0miU5.