For young bird enthusiasts looking to visit one of the British and Irish Bird Observatories this year, we’re providing a number of grants to support your visit.🐦 Discover how to apply 👉 bto.org/ybov

Applications for 2024 will close at 11.59pm on Sunday 12 May.

Applications are now open for a PhD with me looking at the effects of multiple stressors on waterbirds in Scotland ecowild.site.hw.ac.uk/how-to-apply/

In BB this month

The British Birds Charitable Trust has increased the maximum amount it makes available in grants to young birders, from £250 to £500. It has been awarding grants to young birders since 2014.Deadline: end of June 2024

➡️Find out more bit.ly/3vFFGNe

Love data📊? Love birds 🐦🦅🦉🦜?

My team BTO is hiring another Ecological Statistician
…shtrustforornithology.postingpanda.uk/job/535319

💷 c £35k + benefits
🎓 PhD or equivalent
🌍 Thetford/Cambridge; UK right to work required
📅 Closes 21 Apr

#ornithology #ecology #statistics #datascience #rstats

Together, these papers give a comprehensive overview of Arctic Skua non-breeding movements. Important knowledge, considering that the species is listed as vulnerable on the European Red List and appears to be one of the fastest declining seabirds in the North Atlantic. 9/9

A parallel paper on the migration stopovers in the Atlantic by Arctic Skuas (led by Nina_OHanlon), using data from the four best-sampled breeding sites, was recently published in Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS): int-res.com/abstracts/meps… 8/9

tracking study, we use the amazing variation in wintering areas in the Atlantic used by Arctic Skuas to study variation in migration schedules. Individual skuas were highly faithful to wintering areas, where individuals from different breeding sites mixed (weak migratory... 2/9

At last, published in Movement Ecology, our paper on Arctic Skua migration! This paper has been about 8 yrs in the making, is the result of a large international collaboration and was a chapter in my PhD thesis. In this multi-colony ... rdcu.be/dCbRS #teamskua 1/9

So it’s the time of year for finding, recording and enjoying rare breeding birds, but we must remember to put their welfare first! Here’s some advice from RBBP Secretary Mark Eaton, and there’s a blog here tinyurl.com/RBBPsafe [1/2]

NE Atlantic breeding #ArcticSkuas show weak #MigratoryConnectivity to staging areas & have complex migratory strategies. Understanding the migratory routes & strategies of this declining #seabird is a vital step in identifying future #conservation actions
bit.ly/meps_730_113

And take a look at this great blog by Helen and David Aiton for more on the fieldwork involved in getting this data from Arctic Skuas on Rousay, Orkney! 7/8
➡️ bto.org/community/blog…
#ornithology #seabirds #fieldwork

To find out more about the wintering areas and migration schedules of Arctic Skuas take a look at this paper led by Rob van Bemmelen 6/8➡️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
#ornithology #seabirds

BTO paper alert! Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS)

Arctic Skuas tracked migrating to and from their northern breeding grounds converged on ‘hot spots’ in the Atlantic Ocean. Protecting these areas could be key for this declining species.

👉 bit.ly/skua-migration

#BTOScience #Seabirds

Great to see this fantastic collaboration out on the migratory routes, staging areas & migration strategies of Arctic Skuas breeding in the North-East Atlantic - published in Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS) 1/8
➡️ int-res.com/abstracts/meps…
#ornithology #seabirds #BTOScience

Great start to the BTO conference with a wonderful opening from our CEO juliet vickery spreading the word about our impactful work, including our protected areas paper nature.com/articles/s4155… 😀

New #BTOScience in #BirdStudy : Challenges in quantifying the responses of Black-legged Kittiwakes to habitat variables and local stressors due to individual variation
Paper - shorturl.at/evGQ0
Summary - shorturl.at/xDK26
#ornithology #seabirds

New #BTOScience finds that individual Kittiwakes vary greatly in their foraging behaviour in response to environmental conditions and offshore wind farms.

👉 bit.ly/GPS-kittiwakes

#GPSTracking #Seabirds #MarineRenewables

Congrats to Sam Langlois for being nominated for the #IBISbestECRpaper 2023! Take a look ⬇️
#ornithology

Our February newsletter was sent out earlier this month! ✉️

The first article, by our past Chair Liz Humphreys, looks back at what The Seabird Group has achieved under her transformational chairship. We also welcome our new ExComm members who we’re delighted to have on board! ✨

**Seabird Job Alert** National Trust for Scotland is currently advertising several awesome seabird jobs. Details for #Seabird #Ecologist post delivering a mix of research and operational work and several fab ranger posts here: nts.org.uk/volunteering-j…
#ornithology #seabirdersaturday #ecologyjobs