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PSG Past Chair Dick Veit invites your nominations for 2025 recipients of PSG’s Lifetime Achievement Award and Special Achievement Award. These awards will be presented to recipients at the 2025 Joint Meeting of PSG and the Waterbird Society in Costa Rica from January 6-9, 2025.
The Scientific Program Chairs of the 2025 Waterbird Society & Pacific Seabird Group Joint Meeting are now accepting proposals for workshops, symposia, and round-tables to be held at the meeting in Costa Rica this January 6-9, 2025! Symposia and committee meetings must occur during these dates; workshops may also be held just before or after the conference.
The hotel block for the WbS/PSG 2025 Conference in Costa Rica is open!
The South Carolina Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit (SC CRU) continues to conduct research on seabirds throughout the southeast U.S. and Caribbean. A team comprised of Patrick Jodice (SC CRU), Yvan Satgé (SC CRU), Kathy Hixson (SC CRU), and Jeff Gleasons (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; FWS) are nearing completion of an atlas and…
Hawai‘i Wildlife Center (HWC): Hawaiian archipelago seabird and shorebird rehabilitation patients treated at HWC March 1, 2023 to February 29, 2024 consisted of 988 seabirds (19 species) and 15 shorebirds (2 species).
Laurie Wilson (Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) – Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS), Delta, British Columbia (BC)) coordinated the Pacific CWS Seabird Colony Monitoring Program. In 2023, population trends of breeding Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata) at three colonies (Pine Island in the Duke of Edinburgh Ecological Reserve, Lucy Island in the Lucy Islands Conservancy, and…
House mice abundance index and its relation to breeding success of Peruvian diving-petrels on Isla La Vieja, Perú In January 2023, I (Alva) was honored to be selected as a recipient of the Craig Harrison Conservation Fund, administered by the Pacific Seabird Group. As an undergraduate student in marine biology at Universidad Científica del Sur…
2023 Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Regional Reports Aleutian Islands Annual seabird monitoring at Aiktak (eastern Aleutians) and Buldir (western Aleutians) islands was led by Nora Rojek (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge) with summer-long field crews consisting of McKenzie Mudge, Kevin Pietzrak, and Nathan Dubrow on Buldir, and Erin Parsons,…
Mapping Trans-Pacific Routes of New Zealand Mollymawks: Assessing Risks of Interaction with Fisheries along a Flyway to South America In January 2024, I (Zavalaga) embarked on a scientific expedition to the remote Forty-four Island, situated in close proximity to Chatham Island, New Zealand. The primary objective of this fieldtrip was to conduct tagging operations on…
2023 marked the 17th consecutive year of seabird monitoring at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area in Newport, Oregon, and the third consecutive year of monitoring at Pirate Cove in Depoe Bay, Oregon. Will Kennerley (Faculty Research Assistant, OSU), Jacque McKay (NSF REU Intern), Entenecia Cardenas-Ritzert (Doris Duke Scholar), Ricardo Rodriguez (Environment for the Americas Intern),…
Marine Ornithology is an open access journal that is published through a partnership of the African Seabird Group, Australasian Seabird Group, Dutch Seabird Group, Japanese Seabird Group, and Pacific Seabird Group.
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The objective of the Conservation Fund is to advance the conservation of seabirds in developing countries primarily in or bordering the Pacific Ocean by providing funds for conservation and restoration activities, and building within-country seabird expertise. Learn More »
