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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),…
Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project Regional Report – Maui, Hawaiʻi Ornithological radar surveys on Maui, Hawaiʻi In 2020 the Hawaiʻi Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) provided a marine radar to the Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project (MNSRP). The marine radar was selected to closely match that used for seabird surveys on Maui in 2001…
In 2023, I continued to work in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the non-profit organization Island Conservation on research related to invasive house mice (Mus musculus) on Sand Island of Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll NWR). Beginning in 2015, house mice were observed attacking and preying upon adult nesting seabirds—in particular, Mōlī (Laysan…
The Seabird Oceanography Lab, in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), is using high-resolution satellite images to count Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) colonies with the goal of providing a population estimate of the Senkaku Island colony. Across the 2022–2023 breeding season, the team collected six very high (0.3-meter) spatial resolution satellite images…
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…
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