After waving farewell to #PitcairnIsland (stunning in the setting sun), we’re thrilled to arrive at #HendersonIsland 🏝😍 One of the most incredible places on the planet is sitting just meters away, temporarily hidden by the blackness of night @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social@thelabandfield.bsky.social
REQUEST FOR DATA: another call out to #CitizenScientists to submit observations of #BeachWashed #seabirds. >30 freshly dead\dying Fairy Prions (see photo) washed up on a beach in south-east #Tasmania today (5 Feb). Please follow these instructions ➡️ adriftlab.org/news/reporti...
Today Jenn & Alex set sail for #DucieAtoll, one of the most isolated places on our planet. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station 🚀 will be the nearest people to us (~400km away) whereas the nearest humans on Earth (#PitcairnIsland) are 470km from Ducie tinyurl.com/advcbvhx
Just how desperately do you want to escape your flatmates and co-workers 31 days into 2024?
In case you missed it, Dr Jenn @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social from #AdriftLab was on ABC Breakfast News (national TV) this morning talking about our upcoming #ResearchExpedition to #DucieAtoll (plus other remote island craziness) 🐦🏝🚢🌊 #islands #seabirds
TOMORROW morning (at 5:35AM Perth-time) Dr Jenn from #AdriftLab will be on ABC Breakfast TV to discuss our upcoming #ResearchExpedition to #DucieAtoll in the remote #SouthPacific www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01...
Researchers are about to travel to one of the most remote places on earth for the first time since 1991. But while humans have barely stepped foot on Ducie Island in decades, scientists are expecting ...
Our #seabird team is off on expedition to the #SouthPacific in only FOUR DAYS!! 🚢🐦🌊🏝
You think you’ve seen it all, but then a new study comes along and totally blows the lid off 🤯♻️ #microplastics #PlasticPollution #agriculture #FertilizerPellets www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/agricul...
Do you know how much a blue jay is worth to a farmer? A hundred years ago, a field called economic ornithology tried to determine the "exact economic status" of birds. Their conclusion? Without birds, "the ravages of the [insects] they prey upon would render the earth uninhabitable.” 🪶📗🗃️
Before pesticides, birds were a farmer's best defense against bugs. And the government’s economic ornithologists could tell you exactly how much each bird was worth.