Author: Wieteke Holthuijzen

The Pacific Seabird Group and the Waterbird Society will be holding their fifth Joint Conference in San José, Costa Rica, from January 6-9, 2025.

Caren Loebel-Fried tells the story of the ‘ua‘u, the Hawaiian Petrel, and the people working to save them in her new, fully illustrated book, “Finding Home, a Hawaiian Petrel’s Journey”, published by University of Hawai‘i Press.

The common theme? A love for the seabirds that call this place home, like the Leach’s Storm Petrels, Common Murres, Atlantic Puffins, and the various gulls that nest nearby.

The tāoketai or Black Petrel (Procellaria parkinsoni), almost completely black with a pale yellowish, black-tipped bill, is an endemic Aotearoa New Zealand seabird.

To investigate why birds return to their breeding sites over winter, and investing so much time in doing so, we set out to test how site occupancy in the non-breeding season related to site quality, breeding timing, and breeding success of murres on the Isle of May in Scotland.

By studying the sediment layers in freshwater ponds adjacent to nesting sites, paleolimnologists can uncover critical information about the influence of seabird guano on the surrounding ecosystem.

Hawaiian archipelago seabird and shorebird rehabilitation patients treated at Hawaii Wildlife Center (HWC) March 1, 2024 to August 31, 2024 consisted of 170 seabirds (16 species) and 9 (2 species) shorebirds.

At the Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project (MNSRP), we monitor and protect ʻuaʻu in the upper Nakula Natural Area Reserve and Kahikinui Forest Reserve on the leeward slopes of Haleakalā.

While multiple scientific papers have considered fledgling fallout, there is little in the literature regarding the impact of light attraction on breeding adult seabirds on land.

A field biologist’s reflection of historic and current observations in the Arctic, part photo-journalism and documentation.