2025

  • Hipfner (2025)

    Mark Hipfner (Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Delta — Wildlife Research Division) reports that summer 2024 marked the 31st year of operation of the Centre for Wildlife Ecology’s (CWE) seabird research program on Triangle Island. Triangle Island supports the largest aggregation of breeding seabirds in the eastern North Pacific Ocean south of Alaska, and…

  • Drummond et al. (2025)

    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 (USFWS), Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (AMNWR)) with summer-long field crews consisting of Shiho Koike, Ross Bullington, and Nick Minnich on Buldir, and Erin Parsons and Molly Henling on Aiktak. At…

  • Schaefer et al. (2025)

    In 2024, Anne Schaefer, Mary Anne Bishop, and Sarah Hoepfner (Prince William Sound Science Center) conducted at-sea marine bird surveys in Prince William Sound, Alaska to document density and distribution patterns in and around the oil-tanker escort lane during the non-breeding season. Schaefer also led at-sea marine bird surveys in eastern Prince William Sound to…

  • Whelan et al. (2025)

    RESEARCH AND MONITORING ON MIDDLETON ISLAND The 2024 field season on Middleton Island marked the 30th year of tower-based research and monitoring. Scott Hatch (Institute for Seabird Research and Conservation (ISRC)), Éliane Miranda (McGill University), Paul Solmon (Université Bourgogne), Marie Desbois (Quebec), Emmylou Kidder (Virginia), and Shannon Whelan (ISRC) opened the field station in early…

  • Orben et al. (2025)

    In 2024, The Seabird Oceanography Lab (Suzanne Winquist), in collaboration with Dr. Katie Dugger and Point Blue Conservation Science, conducted monitoring and biologging device deployments at the Cape Royds and Cape Crozier Adélie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) colonies in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Multiple years of data from video loggers and depth/acceleration devices deployed on breeding…

  • Orben et al. (2025)

    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 colonies with the goal of providing a population estimate of the Senkaku Island colony. Successful collections of imagery of the island group occurred in December 2023 and December 2024. Images have undergone…

  • Suzuki et al. (2025)

    Yasuko Suzuki (BirdLife International), Motohiro Ito (Toyo University) and his students, and Nobuhiko Sato (in an advisory role, Fisheries Research and Education Agency) continued an experimental study on a gillnet bycatch mitigation technique in collaboration with Tokyo Sea Life Park in Japan. The experiment was conducted in an aviary located at an aquarium with a…

  • Yu et al. (2025)

    Yat-tung Yu and John C.T. Chung, with the team of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society, has continued banding Bridled Terns (Onychoprion anaethetus) in Hong Kong for eight consecutive years as of 2024. In summer 2024, a total of 63 Bridled Tern adults (6 individuals) and chicks (57 individuals) were caught and banded. Three adults…

  • Gulka et al. (2025)

    The goal of this project is to understand the impacts to wildlife (including seabirds) from the first commercial-scale offshore wind development in the U.S. Atlantic. As part of this effort, we have been deploying GPS-GSM tags on Great Black-backed Gulls (Larus marinus, GBBG) (n=60) and Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus, NOGA) (n=60) in Massachusetts, Rhode Island,…

  • Dickson et al. (2025)

    The Laskeek Bay Conservation Society (LBCS), based in Skidegate, BC, completed their 35th field season (19 April – 20 July 2024) of monitoring marine and terrestrial ecology in Laskeek Bay, Haida Gwaii. Rian Dickson and Matthew Peck, assisted by Frédérique Poulin and Amaya Black, coordinated the various research and monitoring projects at the field station…