Thread by @RSPBScience

*THREAD* The next session focuses on one of our (@Natures_Voice) six strategic themes: "Seas well managed for Nature"

#RSPBScieConf19 #ornithology #conservationscience

@Natures_Voice 2020 is the final year of the seabird census. If you’re one of the amazing #volunteers who have been involved - don’t forget to send #JNCC your data! Contact [e-mail] for details #SeabirdsCount #SMP @JNCC_UKseabirds

@Natures_Voice @JNCC_UKseabirds Next, @antjesteinfurth #northernrockhopperpenguins foraging plasticity in response to distinct marine environments at breeding sites in South Atlantic #tristandacunha. Likely to become important in our increasingly changing environment #seabirds #conservation

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@Natures_Voice @JNCC_UKseabirds @antjesteinfurth Next, our first PhD student talk, from Jennifer Cantlay (@RoyalHolloway) "Keeping diving ducks out of gillnets with technical solutions like net lighting is unlikely to work - if anything the light might attract ducks rather than deter them."

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@Natures_Voice @JNCC_UKseabirds @antjesteinfurth @RoyalHolloway Now @_LucyWright Offshore wind farm developments around the UK are predicted to lead to high levels of seabird mortality that may reduce internationally important populations of some seabird species by up to a third over 25 years
#RSPBScieConf19 with @CamZoology