Montevecchi Lab at Memorial University of Newfoundland Our research is focused on marine ecology and animal behaviour
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These results highlight the importance of limiting artificial light at night (ALAN) to protect populations of threatened seabirds such as Leach’s Storm Petrels, particularly during the peak stranding period of September through October.
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Power down for Petrels! @MemorialUSci Student Tori Burt presented her study @PacificSeabirds’ 2023 annual conference in San Diego, CA, finding that turning off lights significantly reduced the number of Leach’s Storm Petrel strandings at a mass stranding site in Bay de Verde, NL.
ALT This is a photo of MSc Student in Cognitive and Animal Behavioural Ecology Tori Burt holding a Storm Petrel
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Dead Common Murres + gannets showing up on southern Burin Peninsula fr/ Pt May to Lamaline about 25 km. Bob Hennebury (709-857-2228) in Lord's Cove is keeping tally. This may be the 1st wave of avian flu moving from the Gulf of St. Lawrence along the S NF coast. Keep looking.
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Last night I captured one of my best images to date. Probably the single most important event in a Guillemot's life. Unable to yet fly, a 3-week-old chick leaps off the cliff, following its dad who will teach it how to fend for itself out at sea over the coming weeks.
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Another of our juvenile @UoLperegrine Falcons was caught under the netting at @UniversityLeeds again today. @Popeuel raised the alarm (brilliant work) and I was able to confirm the grim sight of another trapped bird struggling to get free. THREAD 1/12 @ChrisGPackham #peregrine
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(1/4) #WSTC8 #BehaSesh2 Personality is common in animals and can influence behaviour, with boldness being the most studied trait. Growing research on seabird personality. We studied adult razorbills to identify personality and its effects on behaviour including migration.
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1/4 #WSTC8 #LightSesh #lightattraction has been exhibited by many seabirds & may be contributing to the Leach’s Storm-Petrel population decline. #Stormpetrels amass around light and can subsequently strand on-land, making them vulnerable to starvation, injury, & predation.
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Robert Blackmore worked with @MontevecchiLab and @VisEcolMun for his research “Considerations from visual ecology in fisheries research design” @MemorialUSci
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Now with a lovely graphical abstract! (embiggen for the whole thing!
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Petrel’s Petrol Peril! #LightPollution from offshore oil rigs may disrupt the foraging behavior of Leach’s Storm-Petrels. Read about the dangers faced by these birds in @memorialU PhD student @SydneyCollins23’s newly published piece in @FrontMarineSci tinyurl.com/2p8mwvaf
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New Research: Foraging Paths of Breeding Leach’s Storm-Petrels in Relation to Offshore Oil Platforms, Breeding Stage, and Year: The global population of Leach’s Storm-Petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous), the smallest and most abundant breeding… frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #MarineScience
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Researching #marineheatwave impacts on seabirds? Then we welcome your submission to a new MEPS Theme Section (details at bit.ly/MEPS_HEAT)! Submission deadline 1 September 2022. Benefits: greater visibility & 20% Open Access fee discount
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Some good news - no oil or oiled birds in Golden Bay just east of Cape St. Mary's. Chris Mooney also counted about 2,000 eiders, 20 Long-tailed Ducks and 6-8 Harlequins. Keep looking.
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Don’t forget these photos. Because this wasn’t that long ago. And it didn’t stop.
It just evolved.
ALT MLK being shoved at a protest by white men
ALT White msn dumping acid in a pool where Black people are swimming
ALT White women protesting school segregation
ALT White people and children protesting school segregation
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Check out our new paper where we link the mortality rate of a predator (Northern cod) to the abundance of its prey (capelin and shrimp).
Led by @PaulRegular, in collaboration with several @FishOceansCAN folks
@dna_iaa @CONICETDialoga
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Talk at World Seabird Conference 6 Oct 2021 - Living on the Edge starts at 21:15 zoom.us/rec/play/Fv6gy8HM6tx…
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Biologist Urging Coastal Residents to Turn Off Lights to Save Storm Petrels
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More than 300 (!!!) Leach's Storm-petrels showed up in Bay de Verde last night, and oh boy it was a time getting the last of the birds rounded up this morning! Some of the poor things were soaking wet 😔 #birds #Newfoundland #rescue #ecology #research
