📢Call for abstracts! Registration and abstract submissions are open for the #CoimbraSeabirds Conference on 2-6 Sep 2024 in Coimbra. 📅Abstract submission deadline: 15 Apr 📅Registration deadline: 20 Aug Find all the info on our conference website shorturl.at/ehksy

🚨 NEW ECOTOP PAPER OUT: "Dynamics and effects of #plastic #contaminants’ assimilation in #gulls" Departamento de Ciências da Vida - UC Sara Veríssimo Ana Claudia Norte doi.org/10.1016/j.mare…

Shall the games begin! #holenestingbirds #avianconservation

Check out our new paper at PLOS Climate about #SouthernOcean #FoodWebs! 🇦🇶🐧🦑🦭🐟 journals.plos.org/climate/articl… Seven #EarlyCareerResearchers, Katie O'Brien, Noémie Friscourt, Renato Borras Chavez , Dr Jasmin Groß, Candice Lewis & Georgia Mergard, joined together to:

Interested in working on #seabird foraging and trophic ecology, interaction with #fisheries, exposure to #marinepollutants or #conservation physiology? Come work with us ECOTOP Universidade de Coimbra! Get in touch for help building a successful proposal.

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⚠️ Abstract submission closing soon!! ⚠️ ____ Come share your awesome #seabird research with us at the 16th International Seabird Group Conference in Portugal, 2-6 September 2024. #CoimbraSeabirds 🔗: ucpages.uc.pt/events/coimbra… Deadline: 15th April 2024 📅

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First nest of the year (15/04/24) for Kentish plovers breeding at Quiaios beach. Monitoring under the actions of Iberalex! ECOTOP Departamento de Ciências da Vida - UC MARE

Ana Cláudia Norte, investigadora do DCV, está na 2nd PRAGMATICK COST action meeting e workshop sobre carraças no meio urbano, efeitos da pressão antropogénica nestes vetores e nas doencas por elas transmitidas. O evento decorre em Nyborg, na Dinamarca. pragmatick-action.eu/meetings/mc-me…

Diana Vanessa Macedo Matos defendeu hoje a tese "Aves marinhas como indicadores de poluição por plásticos: exposição aos plásticos em diferentes níveis", Doutoramento em Ecologia. O Júri atribuiu a classificação de Aprovado com Distinção e Louvor. Parabéns à nova Doutora!

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E se esse poder um dia O quiser roubar alguém Não vai para a burguesia Volta à barriga da mãe Volta à barriga da terra Que em boa hora o pariu Agora ninguém mais cerra As portas que abril abriu. 🌹

Very happy to share our latest study on #personality, at-sea behaviour and chick growth of Cory's #shearwaters 🥳 ✅Bolder birds showed lower foraging effort and stronger specialisation in habitat selection ✅Chicks raised by bolder parents grew faster link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🔔New ECOTOP paper: Boldness predicts foraging behaviour, habitat use and chick growth in a central place marine predator doi.org/10.1007/s00442… #ornithology #seabirds

Another cool new #SeabirdJournal article available online now: doi.org/10.61350/sbj.3… 🐧 The Seabird Group

A week sample in photos of what has been my last 3 months of intense fieldwork! #avianconservation #holenestingbirds #seabirds ECOTOP Iberalex OneAquaHealth MARE

Book of Abstracts now available at the conference website! Go check all the exciting works to be showcased at the venue! See you all in a few days! drive.google.com/file/d/1rKd7Xw… ECOTOP Departamento de Ciências da Vida - UC The Seabird Group #CoimbraSeabirds

ECOTOP is very proud to have contributed with data from Coimbra to this exciting #SilentCities project! Departamento de Ciências da Vida - UC Universidade de Coimbra MARE #ornithology nature.com/articles/s4159…