Alex
Landlocked marine ornithologist with a focus on marine energy | Nature, camping, hiking, aerial, axe-throwing | @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social European Rep
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- Reposted by AlexAnother busy spell on Isle of May as we prepare for the forthcoming season ahead as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com
- Reposted by AlexThis is a wildly poorly informed article. Dinosaurs are a gateway to introduce children to biodiversity and the scientific method, as well as extinction and global change, @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by AlexNEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that the survival of migratory #seabirds (Arctic skuas) has decreased in the last decades, but is not related to large-scale ocean indices: www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...
- Reposted by AlexHuge victory for River Action with major implications as High Court declares farming manure as ‘waste’. 🙏 to all who were involved in the case. This will have huge implications for current and future planning applications and the handling of manure on farms. riveractionuk.com/high-court-r...
- Reposted by Alex1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵
- So lucky to work with such incredible and inspiring colleagues wp.me/p3iQac-6hM #IWD2025 #natureconservation #marinebiology #marineenergy
- A misty #sundayswim this morning
- Reposted by AlexA puffin with a beakful of nesting material #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds
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- Reposted by AlexRidiculously rare footage for #SuperSeabirdSunday from late Feb. trip to Phillip Is. off Norfolk. 2nd only pop. of White-necked Petrels with one in company of Juan Fernandez Petrel, 10,000km from home islands. #Seabirds Amazing🪶
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- Reposted by AlexMediterranean Gulls displaying in the sun at West Hayling this week. @rspbengland.bsky.social are just finishing the restoration of the lagoon islands here as part of LIFE on the edge & the Solent Seascape ambition to see seabird sites across the Solent thriving. More to come. #SuperSeabirdSunday
- Reposted by AlexWelcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is proof that some Puffins nest under boulders! #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds
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- Reposted by AlexA friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩🔬
- Reposted by AlexEarly release: The first paper from Seabird 37 has been released! 📰 "Tracking of Black-legged kittiwakes from an offshore platform in the Dutch North Sea during summer" 🕊️🗼: @robvanbemmelen.bsky.social et al. (2025). Read the full paper here 👀 -> doi.org/10.61350/sbj...
- Reposted by AlexCruising for data: Defining the seabird community from vessels of opportunity in Canada’s Eastern Arctic | http://marineornitho... | Marine Ornithology | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
- Hi, I’m Alex! I advise on impacts of #marineenergy developments on our marine & coastal environments, with a focus on marine birds 🌊 I studied for my PhD at Uni of Glasgow looking at how #seabirds use high energy tidal streams. I’m based in the Highlands, Scotland.
- Better late than never, eh!
- Some late arrivals but finally managed to fill up this starterpack of seabird scientists and enthusiasts - feel free to follow all of us with one click! #seabirds 🌍🐧🧪 go.bsky.app/MPUTnmat://did:plc:r6lapka3lplh2cajcw6o7zk6/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lajp6uotgu2q
- Reposted by AlexAs seen in the latest issue of our newsletter - if you've got any good photos of Gulls Eating Stuff, then send them along! (details in the post below ⬇️)
- 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....
