Wildlife in winter ❄️ Seabirds in summer ☀️ | she/her
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Shannon Whelan retweeted
The survival cost of reproducing in cormorants is not due to increased energy expenditure, despite having large clutches [for a seabird].
Recent paper from Middleton Island led by Teo Barracho and @killerwhelan
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Shannon Whelan retweeted
Junk food: GPS tracking reveals that kittiwakes ingest indigo-dyed plastic fibers in the Gulf of Alaska & feed them to their young.
New paper out #OpenAccess below, led by Paolo Tremolada & Univ Milan.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Shannon Whelan retweeted
The first #gull chromosome-level #genome assembly is available! Check out our paper presenting a new black-legged #kittiwake genome
tinyurl.com/5n6dc9r9
👇👇 a couple of highlights:
Shannon Whelan retweeted
Excited to announce my very first publication with @ArcticEcology in @CompBiochPhys! Read about how #plasma #metabolites improve #nutritional state measurements in free-living #seabirds. Study conducted with #kittiwakes on #Middleton #Island @mcgillu
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Shannon Whelan retweeted
Thrilled to share our co-produced (@dunnezaman @mateens22 @sarperotto @akmenzies @JessPopp @HebblewhiteLab @mprice_org) work published today in @ScienceMagazine on braiding Indigenous rights and endangered species laws for culturally-meaningful recovery. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Shannon Whelan retweeted
Yesterday was exciting! Kittiwake persistently visiting Kittiwakery tower. At one point four birds squabbling over a ledge! Fingers crossed they might nest. It is late in the season however so they may just be gathering 'social information' for next year's breeding season.
Puffin Partitioning: tufted puffins and rhinoceros auklets may eat similar things, but their year-round movements are quite different
int-res.com/articles/meps_oa…
ALT Map of Gulf of Alaska with areas that GPS-tagged tufted puffins and rhinoceros auklets foraged after capture on Middleton Island. The tufted puffins' ranged close to the island, while rhinoceros auklets travelled up to 80 km away. Photos of puffin and auklets on land at Middleton Island.
Shannon Whelan retweeted
1/3 Shoney Winds first commercial kittiwake tower in Gateshead is nearly complete. #urban #kittiwake @TyneKittiwakes @Hendrover @KittiwakesTyne @NINAnature @tonereiert @Signe_Dalsgaard @FrancisDaunt @AddeyNick @ECOWind_UK @ArcticEcology @killerwhelan
Middleton Island kittiwakes are on the cover of Proc B!
@zedmorgan's elegant, integrative experiment "Telomere length correlates with physiological and behavioural responses of a long-lived seabird to an ecologically relevant challenge" is #OpenAccess: royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
A PhD chapter came out while I was in the field!
Kittiwakes bred earlier (and better) under colder climate--not a great fit for the future
Murres bred earlier as the Arctic warmed up--but only by ~1 wk, while sea-ice out dates are ~1 mo earlier
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Thanks to co-authors Scott Hatch, @Knomealone, @AChangingArctic and @ArcticEcology. This project took some time (1st chapter to start, 3rd to finish), so it's a very good feeling to see it out in the world.
Shannon Whelan retweeted
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Julie Morand-Ferron @JMorandFerron, an avian behavioral ecologist specializing in the evolution of #cognition and an active contributor to our Society & our field. She will be greatly missed as a scientist, teacher, colleague, and friend.
ALT Headshot of Julie Morand-Ferron
Shannon Whelan retweeted
It was a great @theyukonquest 100 & 200 this year. I sure do like this adventure race photographer thing I do! Here's a toppy-downy shot.
Calibrating your accelerometers can prevent headaches (and improve inference) later: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
*New acclerometry ms* We show how acc signal amplitude varies w tag placement, tag attachment & tag type. Calibrations can overcome some issues, but not all, so users need to be aware to ensure conclusions are biologically meaningful shorturl.at/cdewW @MethodsEcolEvol
Shannon Whelan retweeted
My honours thesis is finally out!!
This project allowed me to meet and learn so much from so many amazing researchers! And of course, fall in love with the amazing black-legged kittiwakes 😍
To see the full article scan the QR code or click doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243548
Shannon Whelan retweeted
On #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, congrats to Amélie Fontaine for defending her PhD thesis yesterday!
After a decade of batwatch.ca/, it's great to see trends for #Quebec #bats in an excellent, timely thesis.
Shannon Whelan retweeted
Check out our new paper in @AmOrnith Ornithology (academic.oup.com/auk/advance…) with @gmitch_ecology @barbalink @ArcticEcology and Camille Begin-Marchand.
We looked at molt migration in eastern Swainson's thrushes (Catharus ustulatus) at @oommbo in Montreal