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The Laskeek Bay Conservation Society (LBCS), based in Skidegate, BC, completed their 34th field season (May 5–July 21) of monitoring marine and terrestrial ecology in Laskeek Bay, Haida Gwaii. Rian Dickson and Matthew Peck, assisted by Max Nishima, coordinated the various research and monitoring projects at the field station on East Limestone Island, including Pigeon…
In January 2023, Rachael Orben and Suzanne Winquist traveled to Midway Atoll, Hawaii, to conduct the second season of Laysan and black-footed albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis and P. nigripes) tracking funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. This project aims to understand fine-scale behavioral interactions between albatrosses and the fishing vessels they encounter across their…
Work Conducted by Archipelago Research and Conservation in 2023 The team from Archipelago Research and Conservation (ARC) continued multiple long-running conservation and research programs on the island of Kauaʻi, focused on the three endangered seabirds breeding on the island: ‘Aʻo (Newell’s Shearwater; Puffinus newelli), ‘Uaʻu (Hawaiian Petrel; Pterodroma sandwichensis) and ʻAkēʻakē (Band-rumped Storm-petrel; Oceanodroma castro)….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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