Congratulations to Holly Hennin who won 2nd place at the 2nd World Seabird Conference for her poster entitled “Proximate mechanisms driving life history decisions in a mixed-strategy breeder” and got an honourable mention for her talk entitled “Reproductive investment at a cost: higher physiological fattening rates lead to increased risk of mortality to a novel disease“. Holly, Graham Sorenson and Dr. Love travelled to Cape Town to join colleagues Jenn Provencher, Christine Anderson and Drs. Grant Gilchrist, Sebastien Descamps and Mark Mallory for this important meeting.