Chris is from Malta and grew up inspired by his father's work on Maltese shearwaters.

: "I spent much of my summer school holidays watching rafts of shearwaters and listening to them flying to their burrows at night."

(#SeabirdShowOff images: European shags)

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Storm-Petrels and small Shearwaters of New Guinea. Watercolour and bodycolour on paper.

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2 x Leverhulme funded PhD studentships using GPS tracking to investigate navigation of Manx shearwaters in the Oxford Navigation Group (). If you’re interested in and animal Details here: https://t.co/m5liGOT08x

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Happy Some of the most incredible annual are undertaken by like arctic terns and sooty shearwaters that cross the globe every year

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Out of the press: At-sea movements of wedge-tailed shearwaters during and outside the breeding season from
four colonies in New Caledonia
Open access https://t.co/1HcuRKv3V5
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Fabulous light on our shearwater trip this evening. Lots of lovely peeps who didn’t mind a bit of spray in the pursuit of wildlife and wonder. We saw Peregrines, seals, shearwaters and a couple of puffins to mention but a few.

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