15th International Seabird Group Conference 2022
University College Cork
Cork 22th-26th August 2022
Conference Abstracts and Program 
Where permission has been granted, each presentation listed includes a link to a recording on the Seabird Group YouTube channel. We acknowledge huge gratitude to the conference organisers and UCC staff for facilitating these recordings.
WELCOME ADDRESS
50 Years of seabird monitoring on the Isle of May
Francis Daunt
UKCEH
PLENARY I
From take-off to touch down: How and when do strong winds become risky for seabirds?Prof. Emily Shepard
Swansea University
SESSION: BIOLOGGING
Are foraging movements in wandering albatrosses consistent with infrasonic sensitivity?Natasha Gillies*; Lucía Martina Martín López; Olivier den Ouden; Jelle Assink; Mathieu Basille; Tommy Clay; Susana Clusella-Trullas; Rocio Joo; Henri Weimerskirch; Samantha C. Patrick
*School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Handedness in northern gannets: Lateralised dive behaviour during foraging
Ashley Bennison*; Bethany Clark, Stephen C. Votier, John L. Quinn, Jamie Darby, Mark Jessopp
*MaREI, Centre for Marine & Renewable Energy, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland & School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES), University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
The use of auxiliary sensors to improve the behavioural classification of hidden Markov models for the study of the foraging ecology of red-billed tropicbirds
Sarah Saldanha*; Sam L. Cox; Teresa Militão; Jacob González-Solís
*Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio) & Dept Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Barcelona, Av Diagonal 643, Barcelona 08028, Spain
SESSION: FISHERIES
Fisheries Session from 2022 Cork Conference - 23 August 2022 Bycatch in the purse seine fishery: from beachcast to identified cause Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard*; Bjørnar Ytrehus; Magdalene Langset; Jørgen R. Wiig; Kim Magnus Bærum
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
How well is the Portuguese coast protecting seabirds?
Jorge M. Pereira*; Jaime A. Ramos; Nuno Oliveira; Ana Marçalo; Jorge M.S. Gonçalves; Flávia Carvalho; Magda Frade; Ana Meirinho; Alexandra Silva; Vítor H. Paiva
*University of Coimbra, MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Life Sciences, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal
Estimating the part of fishery discards consumed by scavenging seabirds in the Bay of Biscay
Mathilde Huon*; Ghislain Dorémus; Matthieu Authier; Jérôme Spitz
*UAR 3462 Observatoire Pelagis – La Rochelle Université
Seabird bycatch in European fisheries: a review
Iván Ramírez; Antonio Vulcano*; Yann Rouxel; Dominik Marchowski; Ana Almeida; José Manuel Arcos; Veronica Cortés Serra; Gesine Lange; Julius Morkūnas; Nuno Oliveira; Vitor H. Paiva; Daniel Mitchell
*BirdLife International, United Kingdom
Conservation implications of seasonal and inter-annual seabird- fisheries interactions within the Cabo Verde archipelago
Vitor H. Paiva*; Teresa Militão; Isabel Rodrigues; Nathalie Almeida; Sarah Saldanha; Deusa Araújo; Ivo dos Santos; Diana Mato; Lara Cerveira; Pedro M. Araújo; Andreia Leala; Marcos Hernández-Montero; Carolino dos Reis Fernandes; Ivandra Gomes; Nadito Barbosa; Cristiana Vieira; Jorge Pereira; Gilson Semedo; Filipe R. Ceia; Montserrat Vanerio; Herculano Andrade Dinis; Pedro Geraldes; Tommy Melo; Jacob González-Solís; Jaime A. Ramos
*University of Coimbra, MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Life Sciences, 3004- 517 Coimbra, Portugal
Fine-scale interactions of wandering albatrosses and fishing vessels in the southwest Atlantic Ocean
Ana P.B. Carneiro*; Bethany L. Clark; Elizabeth J. Pearmain; Richard A. Phillips
*BirdLife International
SESSION: RENEWABLES
A novel vulnerability assessment of non-breeding season displacement impacts of offshore wind farms on common guillemots and razorbills Lila Buckingham*; Jonathan A. Green; Maria I. Bogdanova; Bob Furness; Francis Daunt
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and University of Liverpool
Macro-avoidance behaviour of offshore wind farms by Sandwich Terns
Rob S.A. van Bemmelen*; Jacco J. Leemans; Mark P. Collier; Robert Middelveld; Chris Thaxter; Ruben C. Fijn
*Bureau Waardenburg, Culemborg, the Netherlands
Gannet avoidance rates; using tracking data to reduce error and uncertainty during the breeding season
Jude V. Lane*; Keith C. Hamer; Aly McCluskie
*Centre for Conservation Science, RSPB, UK
Tracking of Leach’s and European Storm-petrels from Scotland reveals foraging areas and spatial overlap with protected areas and future wind farm development
Mark Bolton; Zoe Deakin*; Connie Tremlett; Saskia Wischnewski; Derren Fox; Anna Kebke; Tom Evans
*RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, 2 Lochside View, Edinburgh EH12 9DH
Introduction to LiDAR for accurate and precise measurement of bird flight heights
Laura Jervis*; Stephanie McGovern; Stuart Clough; Gillian Sutherland; Anya Wicikowski; Phoebe Meredith
*Apem Ltd Riverview, A17 The Embankment Business Park, Heaton Mersey, Stockport, Heaton Mersey, Stockport SK4 3GN
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION (EDI) EVENT
Part of the flock? Creating a sense of belonging in Marine OrnithologyAvril Hutch
SESSION: MONITORING
Utility of conservation detection dogs for monitoring breeding seabirdsKendrew Colhoun*; Caroline Finlay
*KRC Ecological Ltd
Variations in seabird abundance and distribution in the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel
Ghislain Dorémus*; Ariane Blanchard; Sophie Laran; Thierry Sanchez; Olivier Van Canneyt
*Observatoire PELAGIS, UAR 3462 La Rochelle Université
Timelapse camera derived measures of phenology and reproductive success in seabird research
Ignacio Juarez-Martinez; Alex Kacelnik; Fiona M. Jones; Jefferson Hinke; Mike Dunn; Andrea Raya Rey; Tom Hart
*Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, 11a Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3SZ, UK
Decolonizing arctic science? Involving local communities will reinforce ecologically sound, pan-arctic seabird monitoring
Manon Clairbaux*; Mia Rönkä; Tycho Anker-Nilssen; Yuri Artukhin; Johannis Danielsen; Maria Gavrilo; Grant Gilchrist; Erpur Snær Hansen; April Hedd; Robert Kaler; Kathy Kuletz; Bergur Olsen; Mark L. Mallory; Flemming Ravn Merkel; Hallvard Strøm; Jérôme Fort; David Grémillet
*School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork T23 N73K, Ireland & MaREI Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork P43 C573, Ireland
Latitudinal and climatic effects on the breeding phenology of a declining seabird
Alice J. Edney*; Matt J. Wood; Ellie Owen; Mark J. Jessopp; Tom Hart
*Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Fifty years of investigations on European storm petrel Hydrobates pelagicus in colonies of Molène archipelago (Brittany, France)
Bernard Cadiou*; Hélène Mahéo
*Bretagne Vivante – SEPNB, 19 route de Gouesnou, F-29200 BREST, France
PLENARY 2
From individuals to communities: plastic pollution, queerness, and compassion in seabird science Dr Alex Bond
Natural History Museum
SESSION: POLLUTION AND TOXICOLOGY
Tell me where you overwinter, I will tell you what toxicological risks you might face Céline Albert*; Hallvard Strøm; Hálfdán Helgi Helgason; Vegard Sandøy Brathen; Fannar Theyr Gudmundsson; Paco Bustamante; Jérôme Fort\
*Littoral, Environnement et Sociétés (LIENSs), UMR 7266 CNRS-La Rochelle Université, 2 Rue Olympe de Gouges, 17000 La Rochelle, France & Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique Evolution, 91405, Orsay, France
Global assessment of marine plastic exposure for petrels
Bethany L. Clark*; Ana P. B. Carneiro; Elizabeth J. Pearmain; Thomas A. Clay; Richard A. Phillips; Andrea Manica; Marie-Morgane Rouyer; Win Cowger; Marcus Eriksen; Carolina Hazin; Maria P. Dias
*BirdLife International
A tale of two petrels: Recent advances in the ecological study of the endangered Diablotin Black-capped Petrel
Yvan Satgé*; Patrick G.R. Jodice; Brad Keitt; Chris Gaskin; Gemma Clucas; Sarah E. Janssen
*South Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
SESSION: FORAGING ECOLOGY
Foraging distribution and habitat use of chick-rearing snow petrels from two colonies in Dronning Maud Land, AntarcticaEleanor Maedhbh L. Honan*; Ewan D. Wakefield; Richard A. Phillips; Erin L. McClymont
*Durham University, UK
Evidence of the use of memory, social information and wind by seabirds foraging across a tropical island ecosystem of the Atlantic Ocean
Sam L. Cox*; Sophie Lanco Bertrand; Leandro Bugoni; Karine Delord; Herve Demarcq; Guilherme Tavares Nunes
*Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), 31400, Toulouse, France & MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Sète, France & Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Sète, France & University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Effects of age and status on foraging behaviour of wandering albatrosses
Elizabeth J. Pearmain*; Ana P. B. Carneiro; Andrea Manica; Richard A. Phillips
*British Antarctic Survey & University of Cambridge
Underwater visibility impacts the foraging behaviour of a diving seabird
Jamie Darby*; Manon Clairbaux; Ashley Bennison; John L. Quinn; Mark Jessopp
*School of Biological, Environmental and Earth Sciences, University College Cork, Cork T23 N73K, Ireland & MaREI Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork P43 C573, Ireland
Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of foraging movement of the White-faced Storm-Petrel in the Atlantic tropics
Constanza Rivas*; Fernando Medrano, Jacob Gonzalez-Solis
*Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands & Departament de Biología Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Facultat de Biología, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain
Deciphering the mechanisms driving individual foraging site fidelity in gannets with movement simulations
Christopher J. Pollock*, Ruth Jeavons, Jude V. Lane, Tim Benton, Keith Hamer
*British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk, UK
SESSION: URBANISATION, INVASIVES AND RESTORATION
Are introduced rodents involved in disease outbreaks threatening subantarctic seabirds? Amandine Gamble*; Baudouin Des Monstiers; Lorien Boujot; Romain Dedet; Augustin Clessin; Marine Bely; Romain Garnier; Jérémy Tornos; Hubert Gantelet; Nicolas Keck; Thierry Boulinier
*University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
Response of long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis) to the change in the main prey availability in its wintering ground in the Baltic Sea
Paola Forni*; Julius Morkunas; Darius Daunys
*Marine Research Institute, Klaipeda University
Implications of habitat restoration for tropical seabirds and coral reef ecology
Ruth E. Dunn*; Cassandra E. Benkwitt; Nicholas A.J. Graham
*Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
Rapid loss of maternal immunity and increase in environmentally mediated pathogen exposure in urban gull nestlings
Juliet S. Lamb*; Thierry Boulinier
*CEFE-CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, Montpellier, France
Tussles for mussels? Abundance, distribution, and disturbance of Ireland’s largest Eider aggregation
Katherine A. Booth Jones*; Kerry Leonard; Dave Allen; Neil A. Calbrade; Graham E. Austin; Tom J. Evans; Rich J. Howells; Elizabeth M. Humphreys; Niall H. K. Burton
*BTO Northern Ireland, Beta Centre (Unit 15), Stirling University Innovation Park, Stirling, FK9 4NF
Terns nesting in Dublin Port between 1995 and 2021: responses to nesting structure availability in a dynamic industrial setting
Helen Boland; Tara Adcock*; Brian Burke; Niamh Fitzgerald; Stephen Newton; Niall Tierney; Ricky Whelan
*BirdWatch Ireland, Bullford Business Park, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow
Are urban habitats an opportunity or a challenge to breeding yellow-legged gulls (Larus michahellis)?
Ana C. Norte*; Joana Pais de Faria; Giulia Bocelli; Sara N. Veríssimo; Rita Soares; Catarina S. Lopes; João Oliveira; Ivo dos Santos; João Silva; Francisco Neves; Filipe Veloso; Vítor H. Paiva; Jaime A. Ramos
*University of Coimbra, MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Life Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal
SESSION: DEMOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE
Differential responses of phenology to climate change in sympatric seabird species Ignacio Juarez-Martinez*; Alex Kacelnik; Fiona M. Jones; Jefferson Hinke; Mike Dunn; Andrea Raya Rey; Tom Hart
*Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, 11a Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3SZ, UK
Where have all the petrels gone? 40 years of environmental change and population dynamics of Wilson’s Storm-petrels
Anne N.M.A. Ausems*; Diego I. Archuby; Christina Braun; Andrzej Gębczyński; Anja Gladbach; Piotr Jadwiszczak; Phillipp Kraemer; Nadja D. Kuepper; Marcela M. Libertelli; Stefan Lorenz; Benjamin Richter; Anja Russ; Tim Schmoll; Simon Thorn; John Turner; Katarzyna Wojczulanis- Jakubas; Dariusz Jakubas; Petra Quillfeldt
*Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26, D- 35392 Giessen, Germany & Department of Vertebrate Ecology and Zoology, University of Gdańsk, ul. Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland
A model-based indicator of breeding productivity of European seabirds
Morten Frederiksen*; Volker Dierschke; Stefano Marra; Matt Parsons; Marco Fusi; Graham French; Ian Mitchell
*Aarhus University, Dept. of Ecoscience
Declines in the breeding success of two sibling species of storm-petrel in the Azores over the past two decades
Hannah F. R. Hereward*; Renata Medeiros-Mirra; Joël Bried; Verónica Neves; Wiebke C. Schäfer; Petra Quillfeldt; Robert J. Thomas; Frank Hailer; Mark Bolton
*Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Should I stay or should I go? The cost of divorce in the thick-billed murre
Marianne Gousy-Leblanc*; Thomas Merkling; Shannon Whelan; Kyle Elliott
*Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec, Canada
Contrasting pre-breeding conditions affect condition-dependent reproduction and population dynamics in Atlantic puffins
Kate Layton-Matthews*; Tone K. Reiertsen; Kjell Einar Erikstad; Tycho Anker-Nilssen; Francis Daunt; Mike Harris; Rob T. Barrett; Sarah Wanless
*Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway
Quantifying the impacts of predation by Great Black-backed Gulls Larus marinus on an Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica population using Population Viability Analysis
Samuel Langlois*; Francis Daunt; Jared Wilson; Nina O’Hanlon; Elizabeth Masden
*Environmental Research Institute, North Highland College, University of the Highlands and Islands, Ormlie Road, Thurso, KW14 7EE, UK
PLENARY 3
Drivers of seabird movements and their fitness consequencesDr Annette Fayet
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
SESSION: MULTI-COLONY STUDIES
Large-scale tracking of seabirds in the North Atlantic - SEATRACK Hallvard Strøm*; Francoise Amélineau; Vegard S. Bråthen; Sébastien Descamps; Morten Ekker; Per Fauchald; Malin Johansen; Børge Moe; Arnaud Tarroux
*Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Postbox 6606 Langnes, 9296 Tromsø, Norway
Spatial segregation of seabirds at South Georgia
Victoria Warwick-Evans*; Elizabeth J. Pearmain; Andy G. Wood; Richard A. Phillips
*British Antarctic Survey
Importance of the Barents Sea for North Atlantic seabirds
Benjamin Merkel*; Francoise Amélineau; Tycho Anker-Nilssen; Jan Ove Bustnes; Vegard Sandøy Bråthen; Olivier Chastel; Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard; Sébastien Descamps; Morten Ekker; Kjell Einar Erikstad; Alexey Ezhov; Per Fauchald; Geir Wing Gabrielsen; Maria Gavrilo; Sveinn Are Hanssen; Hálfdán Helgi Helgason; Malin Kjellstadli Johansen; Yuri Krasnov; Magdalene Langset; Ivan Mizin; Børge Moe; Tone Kristin Reiertsen; Kjetil Sagerup; Geir Helge Systad; Arnaud Tarroux; Grigori Tertitski; Ekaterina Leonidovna Tolmacheva; Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas; Hallvard Strøm
*Akvaplan-niva AS, Fram Centre, 9296 Tromsø, Norway
SESSION: MOVEMENT AND BEHAVIOUR
Drivers of ocean movement patterns in the Round Island petrelKirsty A. Franklin*; Ken Norris; Jennifer A. Gill; Norman Ratcliffe; Simon Butler; Nik C. Cole; Carl G. Jones; Garth Holloway; Simeon Lisovski; Kevin Ruhomaun; Vikash Tatayah; Malcolm A. C. Nicoll
*School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK & Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, UK
Habitat predictability of European shags based on multi-year and multi-colony tracking
Nina Dehnhard*; Jenny Mattisson; Arnaud Tarroux; Tycho Anker-Nilssen; Svein-Håkon Lorentsen; Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard
*Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
Drivers and fitness consequences of the occupancy of breeding sites in the non-breeding season in common guillemots Uria aalge
Sophie Bennett*; Mike P. Harris; Sarah Wanless; Jonathan A. Green; Mark A. Newell; Kate R. Searle; Francis Daunt
*UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Edinburgh, Bush Estate, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0QB & School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK
Does personality mediate the reproductive consequences of broad climate phenomena?
Jack Thorley*; Henri Weimerskirch; Stephanie Jenouvrier; Joanie Van de Walle, Samantha Patrick
*University of Liverpool, UK
Balearic shearwaters use spatial cognition to facilitate range shift under climate change
Patrick Lewin*; Joseph Wynn; Tim Guilford et al.
*University of Oxford
Is vocal communication a key to coordinated parental care in a monogamous seabird, the Little Auk (Alle alle)?
Marion Devogel*; Antoine Grissot; Rozenn le Fur; Dorota Kidawa; Marcelo Araya-Salas; Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas
*University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Biology, Dept of Vertebrate Ecology and Zoology, Gdańsk, Poland
The use of visual landmarks during homing in a critically endangered shearwater
Lewis C. Fisher-Reeves*; Oliver Padget; Tim Guilford
*Zoology Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
WORKSHOP: SURVEILLANCE AND MONITORING RESPONSES TO HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA (HPAI)
Influenza 101 and context of influenza in seabirds Michelle Wille
University of Sydney
Recent changes in the epidemiology of the Gs/Gd lineage of HPAI virus
Thijs Kuiken
Erasmus Medical Center
The avian flu outbreak on Coquet Island, Northumberland
Ibrahim Alfarwi
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Seabirds and avian flu: where do we go from here?
Emma Cunningham
University of Edinburgh
Remote monitoring solutions: cameras, drones and AI
Tom Hart
University of Oxford
Weathering the storm: a policy response
Emma Philip & Glen Tyler
NatureScot