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2024: Volume 51(2)
Pacific Seabirds is the official publication of the Pacific Seabird Group (PSG) and serves to provide members with recent news on financial reports, Annual Meetings, regional reports, conservation news, special events, awards, decisions of the PSG, and more, plus archive this information for all members. For questions about Pacific Seabirds, please contact the Editor at editor@pacificseabirdgroup.org.
Book release event: “Finding Home, a Hawaiian Petrel’s Journey” by Caren Loebel-Fried
Join artist/author Caren Loebel-Fried for the launch of her new book, “Finding Home, A Hawaiian Petrel’s Journey” published by University of Hawai‘i Press.
Committee updates
The Elections Committee and Communications Committee are looking for members!
Member updates
Congratulations to Laura Bliss on her new job at West Coast Ocean Data Portal!
Waterbird Society & Pacific Seabird Group 2025 Joint Meeting
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.
Book review: “Finding Home, a Hawaiian Petrel’s Journey”
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.
Art on the cabin walls: Gull Island, Witless Bay Ecological Reserve
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.
Tākoketai/Black Petrels (Procellaria parkinsoni) on Aotea/Great Barrier Island, Aotearoa New Zealand
The tāoketai or Black Petrel (Procellaria parkinsoni), almost completely black with a pale yellowish, black-tipped bill, is an endemic Aotearoa New Zealand seabird.
Insights into the year-round behaviour of common murres at breeding sites
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.
Tracking seabird colonies through paleolimnology
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.
