ALAR - Atlantic laboratory for Avian Research

Happy to say our paper monitoring highly pathogenic avian influenza mortalities in eastern Canada is available online! 😷🦆 #HPAI #seabirds Thankful for the opportunity to collaborate with so many great folks! ⁦@saverygo⁩ ⁦⁦@environmentca #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@eubalaenagina Yay! That’s amazing, Congrats!!

🐋🐋THESIS SUBMITTED!!🐋🐋 Coming soon to a MS Teams meeting near you: #RemoteSensing to measure the #physiology and foraging #ecology of North Atlantic #rightwhales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada The defense date will be announced after I receive examiner feedback.

@JCashaback @acagamic Well said!

@acagamic These are predictions, not hypotheses. The mechanism is your hypothesis.

How to write a hypothesis

@SteelySeabirder Gannets as far as the eye can see

Happy Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share videos/photos/artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution a family of European Shags at a nest site #SuperSeabirdSunday

@SteelySeabirder A lovely puffin walk!!

Good morning and welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos/videos/artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution; puffins in the rain! #SuperSeabirdSunday

@bwmphotoUK How cool!

Close up with blue

New science alert! PhD student @QuinnCarvey and collaborators recently published a new article on genetic structure of Atlantic puffins!! Check out the link below! Fascinating new findings! dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592… #science #puffins #seabirds

Congrats @QuinnCarvey, @ALAR_UNB & colleagues on their recent publication in Conservation Genetics! link.springer.com/article/10.100… #Puffins breeding on Machias Seal Island, NB are genetically distinct from Newfoundland & Québec 🐧🧬 @UNBResearch @UNBSGS #conservation #genetics

And just like that the 2024 field season comes to an end!! It’s been an AMAZING summer here at MSI and we can’t wait for next year! We collected valuable data that will contribute to several projects within the lab and with collaborators! Till next time MSI We’ll be back soon;)

@SteelySeabirder A lovely puffin trying to get comfy and some silly murres !

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos/videos of seabirds like these Puffins on the Isle of May; who needs a cliff when the fog horn building will do! #SuperSeabirdSunday

Our puffin chicks are fledging!! Here on the island we’ll find puffin chicks at night that come up to our grassy areas! We measure & band them then send them on their way closer to the ocean! It’s remarkable to see them take their first steps out to sea! #seabirds #puffins

@SteelySeabirder Rejected 😞

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share your videos/photos of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is a pair of Arctic terns changing over brood duties (reluctantly) #SuperSeabirdSunday

WOAH! Our puffin chicks are getting big!! This guy is ready to leave! Soon we’ll be staying up and catching fledgers to measure and band before they go out to sea! We can wait! #seabirds #puffin #ocean

Night work fun! In the coming days the crew will be spending lots of time out at night to collect blood samples from 20 Atlantic puffins! The samples collected from this work is part of a larger collaborative project! All birds/samples are handled/taken under approved permits.

Today we happened to grub a 27 year old puffin banded as a chick in 1997!! If you’re ever wondering what a 27 year old band looks like, here ya go! (We replaces the old worn out band with a new one!)

@ScuderiUrsula Here’s a photo of the field readable bands

@ALAR_UNB Hey ☺️ just out of curiosity - how come did you use 2 metal rings, one for each leg? Thanks in advance

WOAH! Our puffin chicks have grown a FAST! Today we banded our very first puffin chicks of the season!!! So exiting! These guys will continue to grow and leave the island soon! We hope to band and measure many more in the coming weeks as they prepare to fledge!! #puffin #sea

@ScuderiUrsula Hi Great question! The one on the left is called the bbl (bird banding lab) and is a federally required band that acts as the birds identification (9 digits) The band on the right is a field readable (4 digits) that is much easier to read when resighting them from a distance.

(All deployments and birds are handled under proper approved permits)

This June the MSI crew got to work and deployed gls tags on common murre chicks The hope is to gather information on where they go post fledging and better understand their spatio-temporal movements from fledging to maturity! #seatrackscience @SeatrackScience #seabirds #murre