Latest Seabird News

Wild Petrel Positive For Bird Flu At Seabird
Seal pups and seabird chicks are suffering in extreme weather. How can we protect them?
Elusive seabird ID paves way for more citizen-backed discoveries
Thousands of dead puffins are washing up on Europe’s beaches – why it’s been such a dangerous winter for seabirds
Seabird conservation starts upstream, scientists say
Pitter patter to the waves: green turtle hatchlings head to sea |
Your 2026 Australia Day Award Winners announced: Ballina Shire
To see or not to see – distinguishing ‘absence’ from ‘ignorance’ to improve seabird conservation 15 December 2025
2025 Arts Fellow Announced 12 November 2025
Rare albatross makes remarkable recovery after swallowing multiple fishing hooks
Alleged Deliberate Cruelty To Wildlife – Call For Information
Action urgent for Pacific region to ‘Stay Alive and Thrive’
As Antarctic sea ice shrinks, iconic emperor penguins are in more peril than we thought
Record number of sea turtle nests rescued before cyclone
Nominees announced for the 2025 Ballina Shire Australia Day Awards
2024 In Rearview
Surveys show full scale of massive die-off of common murres following the ‘warm blob’ in the Pacific Ocean
Monitoring for avian influenza in East Antarctica 3 December 2024
Using DNA To Identify Seabird Bycatch 2 December 2024
‘Food theft’ among seabirds could be transmission point for deadly avian flu
Age matters: new age-ID tool set to revolutionise threatened seabird conservation
Seabird, seal monitoring crucial as Avian Influenza reaches Antarctica 14 March 2024
Nuyina’s Mawson voyage to make history 13 February 2024
Man sentenced for skippering vessel into flock of protected seabirds
Seabird droppings may help corals recover faster from climate change-driven disturbances
Police are responding to fatal crash – Gabbadah
Australian scientists monitor bird flu risk in Antarctica 13 October 2023
Seafood industry committed to seabird protection
2023 Byron Shire Community Awards announced
Finding SLL seabird mitigation sweet spot
Marine heat waves caused mass seabird die-offs, beach surveys show
Reduced New Zealand seabird catch results presented to international forum
Migrating birds could bring lethal avian flu to Australia’s vulnerable birds
Feathered ‘fingerprints’ reveal potential motivation for migratory patterns of endangered seabirds
‘Constant bird song’ result of conservation on Mercury Islands
Community-based animal welfare grants awarded
International Volunteer Managers Day Forum
Birds used to track light pollution at sea
Calling all local heroes
Beach trash accumulates in predictable patterns on Washington and Oregon shores
Joint following meeting between President of Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, and Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern
Penguin heaven: multi-decade science reveals secret lives of Adélies 13 May 2022
All creatures great and small helped with animal welfare grants
ETBF seabird mitigation and reporting requirements 2022
$10,000 for Twinnies Pelican and Seabird Rescue
Tweed Citizen of Year is passionate about marine life
Hopes to see sea turtle mums this summer
Two hundred sea turtle hatchlings cause for shellebration