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A collaborative effort to improve our understanding of seabirds distribution along the coast of India - check it out here! 🌍🪶🧪

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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....

submitted 108 days ago • 7 comments

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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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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📢 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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Shear drama (pun intended) in the Indian Ocean 🌍🪶 #seabirds #ornithology #SuperSeabirdSunday

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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 ! 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁🦑🪴🦉🐍🌾

submitted 129 days ago • 32 comments

Got some artistic skills? Enter our Seabird Pride t-shirt competition! 🕊️🏳️‍🌈🎽 Details below ⬇️ #SeabirdPride2025

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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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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. 😍

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I approve of this pigeon propaganda 🥹🤍

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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

submitted 209 days ago • 9 comments

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... 🌍🪶🧪

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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 🌿

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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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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

submitted 214 days ago • 11 comments

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

submitted 217 days ago • 252 comments

#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! 🌍🪶🧪

submitted 217 days ago • 1 comment