I feel like someone somewhere must be working on this, but a free library of 3D models of Seabirds would be an incredible resource for seabird restoration #Seabirds
Creating bird decoys is vital in seabird restoration, and 3D printed is such an obvious solution to it, but no-one wants to share models that they've crafted themselves (fair enough).
An online repository for freely available 3D models of Seabirds would be a brilliant asset. I'm sure I could secure funding for an artist to create the original models, and then host them somewhere?
Three species of auk (common guillemot Uria aalge, Brünnich’s guillemot Uria lomvia and razorbill Alca torda) leave the nest cliff before they can fly, leaping into the sea and are then looked after by their dad. It's my absolute favourite parental care strategy in the animal kingdom, and this paper looks at where the jumplings head to once they've jumped.
My Dad's favorite bird is the pelican. White pelicans, brown pelicans, any pelican. So I was thinking of my Dad when this Australian pelican flew from the direction of the beach to the estuary where we were standing, staring at terns, circled, and did a water landing.
#ornithologie Les albatros, ces merveilleux oiseaux marins pélagiques, sont sensibles aux basses fréquences (< 20 hz) émises par les vagues déferlantes pour s'orienter en haute mer. #seabirds
"There are more seabirds nesting on the island of Lundy than at any time since the 1930s, conservationists have revealed.
The tiny island in the Bristol Channel, a globally famed location for Britain’s seabirds, is now home to 25,000 Manx shearwaters – 95% of England’s breeding population – as well as 1,335 puffins and more than 150 pairs of storm petrels, a species that only arrived on the island in 2014."