Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) #SouthAmericanBirds #CentralAmericanBirds #NorthAmericanBirds | #BluefootedBooby #SulaNebouxii | #Boobies #GannetFamily #Seabirds : Photo by hbieser #birdsoftheworld #birds

Another #puffin pic

New addition! Grey-headed gull (Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus) #AfricanBirds #SouthAmericanBirds | #GreyHeadedGull #GreyHoodedGull #ChroicocephalusCirrocephalus | #Gulls #GullFamily #Seabirds #Shorebirds : Photo by Beto_MdP #birdsoftheworld #birds

A #puffin telling me where to go

‘They started nibbling at its head’: the bold plan to rid an island of albatross-eating mice

South Africa’s Marion Island is a breeding ground for the birds, but their chicks are being eaten alive by rodents. Now, the world’s largest operation to eradicate the invasive species is about to get under way

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/31/plan-to-rid-marion-island-of-albatross-eating-mice-invasive-species?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Long-tailed Duck at Cape Bonavista, Newfoundland.

Great shearwater off Newfoundland a few years ago. Hopefully, this one still returns each summer.

Look who was back on the Cliffs of Moher yesterday?
Always great to see the Puffins (Fratercula arctica) return to their breeding colonies for the season. Hopefully they have a good one
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Great Auk by Tim Birkhead, looks like a fantastic read

https://www.nhbs.com/the-great-auk-tim-birkhead-book

Male eider duck at Cape Bonavista, Newfoundland

For #SilentSunday, a lone white bird walks in the surf.

ART - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/white-crane-in-the-surf-sarasota-florida-deborah-league.html

Bird colonies around the coast are filling up - here's a male European Shag in full dress uniform, North Sutor, Cromarty Firth, Scotland. #birds #seabirds #nature

Atlantic Puffin showing off its beauty. Picture taken close to my home a few years ago.

There's a #house for sale in the old fishing village of Whinnyfold on the #Aberdeenshire #coast. The location, views & walks are stunning, with abundant local #wildlife including #seals and nesting #seabirds including guillemots, razorbills & kittiwakes. The #property includes a bothy with power & central heating which would make an excellent #workshop or #artist #studio.

The current owners wish to sell to full-time residents, not for it to become a holiday home.

https://www.aspc.co.uk/search/property/430898/11-Whinnyfold/Peterhead/

A bird alert today: the highest count of puffins off the coast of Pembrokeshire since 1934. Wow!

pics on their Bsky account here https://bsky.app/profile/skokholmisland.bsky.social/post/3lkvppx77uc2p

Black Guillemot near Spillars Cove, #Newfoundland. This was a hanging over the cliff shot!

Turnstones in a line, sunrise and nesting Fulmers
#cullercoats #whitleybay #seabirds

→ Join seabirds as they #migrate, encountering #human communities along the way
https://aeon.co/videos/join-seabirds-as-they-migrate-encountering-human-communities-along-the-way
https://youtu.be/3_CqIJbZx4I

“In the town of San Quintín, #Mexico, the #seabirds’ late-fall arrival is greeted by a joyful festival. In the early spring, researchers working on the coast of the #US state of Washington engage in a tagging initiative to track their movements. And in Hooper Bay, #Alaska, […] a Yup’ik community gathers #eggs in an annual harvest that’s endured for centuries […]”

Interesting paper in Seabird, seaweed spotted growing on Global Location Sensors attached to seabirds

https://seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-37-3

Under cover of darkness: Refuge from artificial light at night may mitigate risks to stranded seabirds | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology #seabirds
https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithapp/duaf018