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Whelan (2024)

Research and Monitoring on Middleton Island A large, international team of researchers had a productive season of seabird research and monitoring on Middleton Island in 2023. Scott Hatch, Martha Hatch, and Shannon Whelan (Institute for Seabird Research and Conservation; ISRC) opened the field station in early April. The core research team, consisting of camp leader…

Roletto et al. (2024)

2023 ACCESS Summary for PSG Annual Report Applied California Current Ecosystem Studies (ACCESS) is a collaborative effort of Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries (GFNMS/CBNMS) and Point Blue Conservation Science that supports data collection to understand status and trends of sanctuary resources, ecosystem health, and response to climate change. This project supports several Office…

White et al. (2024c)

USGS WERC Seabird Studies Team: Northern California PSG Regional Report 2024 Jonathan Felis, Josh Adams, and Laney White (USGS Western Ecological Research Center (WERC)), with observer support from Alex Rinkert (California State Parks), continued long-term (1999–present) at-sea Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) surveys in Conservation Zone 6 in central California to estimate murrelet abundance and reproductive…

Heswall et al. (2024)

Why did they die? Analysing the cause of death of grounded seabirds lodged at an avian rescue centre in Auckland, New Zealand Each year from 2018–2023, over 100 Cook’s Petrels (Tītī; Pterodroma cookii) became grounded in Auckland, New Zealand, as a result of light pollution. We performed necropsies on 19 grounded Cook’s Petrels that did…

Chinnici (2024)

Humboldt Redwood Company, LLC (HRC) continued the conservation activities for the Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) under the company’s Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP). Project leaders were Sal Chinnici and Mark Freitas of HRC. The HCP requires tracking of murrelet occupancy and numbers over time using both radar and audio-visual (AV) survey techniques. Surveys were continued in…

Moorhouse (2024)

Scott Moorhouse (High Arctic Gull Research Group) is continuing his studies of Iceland Gulls (Larus glaucoides thayeri), including completing additional work on the occurrence, distribution, abundance, habitat use, and behavior of wintering L. glaucoides thayeri in central California. Fieldwork was completed in March 2023 and a paper on the work was accepted for publication by…

DuVall et al. (2024)

Beth Gardner, Sarah Converse, Amelia DuVall, and Eve Hallock (University of Washington) deployed 12 GPS logging tags with accelerometers on nesting Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) individuals in fall 2023 to inform fine-scale foraging information linked to breeding success on Tetiaroa Atoll, French Polynesia. They plan to deploy an additional 15 units in spring 2024. They…

Wheeler (2024)

Throughout 2023, the International Black-capped Petrel Conservation Group continued to implement the nine strategies laid out in the 2021 Conserving the Diablotin: Black-capped Petrel Conservation Update and Action Plan. All of these strategies in combination are considered necessary to meet the goal of the long-term survival of a stable population of the species (Black-capped Petrel…

Young et al. (2024)

Pacific Rim Conservation 2023 Annual Summary In 2023 Pacific Rim Conservation (PRC) continued with our long-term seabird monitoring and conservation programs across Hawaii and Mexico. We conducted monitoring of 11 seabird species across Kauai and Oahu to determine the outcomes of various conservation interventions and to research the demography of these populations. In 2023 this…

Yu & Chung (2024)

Pacific Seabird Group 2024 Regional Report – Hong Kong, China Yat-tung Yu and John C.T. Chung, with the team of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society, have continued banding Bridled Terns (Onychoprion anaethetus; BRTE) in Hong Kong for seven consecutive years as of 2023. In total, 447 Bridled Terns were banded from 2017 to 2023,…