biosecuritylife.bsky.social
3 projects working to help protect seabird islands around the UK from the introduction of invasive predators.
👤 Joined on 23 September 2025
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@biosecuritylife.bsky.social🗣️ Some good news from Orkney! The invasive non-native Stoat that was confirmed on Rousay in May has been caught. This is great news for native wildlife like Hen Harriers and the Orkney Vole, and for the community who care so deeply about their island’s nature.
Show Post‘newly created islands within a saline lagoon provide safer nesting, fencing excludes predators, rat monitoring, vegetation removal, patrols highlight the vulnerability of birds to disturbance & dog-friendly exercise areas are away from nesting birds’ #Seabirds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Show PostKittiwake, like a number of SMP recorded species, are pelagic. They'll spend a large duration of the non-breeding season in the high seas of the Atlantic Ocean; quite the difference from other gulls monitored through the programme! #Seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
Show PostThis glorious creature-Reid, a specialist sniffer dog trained to identify rodents on seabird islands Critically important work undertaken by @biosecuritylife.bsky.social especially in view of drastic declines in nearly half of all UK birds & seabirds in particular www.google.com/goto?url=CAE...
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