2025

  • Leighton (2025)

    I monitor the general populations and breeding success of colonial-nesting birds of Bear Island, Nova Scotia, one of two islands in the Annapolis Basin, a tidal bay off the Bay of Fundy. The island is maintained as a nature reserve by its Trustees, the Town and the Board of Trade of Digby, Nova Scotia. The…

  • Wilson et al. (2025)

    Laurie Wilson (Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) – Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS), Delta, British Columbia (BC)) coordinated the Pacific CWS Seabird Colony Monitoring Program. In 2024, population trends of breeding Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) and Cassin’s Auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus) at 3 colonies (George Island, East Copper Island and West Rankine Island in the Gwaii…

  • Tirtaningtyas and Kaban (2025)

    This activity was funded by 2024 Small Grant Fund for Working Groups and Task Forces East Asia Australasia Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) with the title “Monitoring the Christmas Frigatebird in Jakarta Bay August 2023 – August 2024.” This report is already sent to the EAAFP Secretariat. Our collaboration activity between Burung Laut Indonesia and the Conservation…

  • Moorhouse (2025)

    Greenland Scott Moorhouse (High Arctic Gull Research Group) is continuing his studies of Iceland Gulls (Larus glaucoides). This includes completing additional work on the feeding ecology and behavior of breeding gulls of the glaucoides subspecies compared to other sympatric breeding species in southwestern Greenland, including Glaucous Gulls (L. hyperboreus), Great Black-backed Gulls (L. marinus), Lesser…

  • Oppel et al. (2025)

    BirdLife Partners in Lithuania and the United Kingdom (Lithuanian Ornithological Society, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) completed a 5-year project to trial techniques on how to reduce seabird bycatch (Long-tailed Duck, Velvet Scoter, Great Cormorant) in nearshore gillnet fisheries. Mitigation measures included predator-shaped kites attached to buoys holding the nets, and night fishing….

  • Orben et al. (2025a)

    Caspian Terns – Pacific Flyway Population Census  The Seabird Oceanography Lab (Rachael Orben, Adam Peck-Richardson, Michael McGuire) completed the fourth assessment of the Pacific Flyway region Caspian Tern breeding population. In 2024, we conducted a comprehensive breeding population census by surveying every active and historical nesting location within the Pacific Flyway region. The need for…

  • Orben et al. (2025b)

    Rachael Orben (Assistant Professor – Senior Research, Oregon State University), Adam Peck-Richardson (Faculty Research Assistant, OSU), and Alexa Piggott (Faculty Research Assistant, OSU) entered the sixth year of the Cormorant Oceanography Project. This interdisciplinary project is developing and deploying novel biologging tags on cormorants, shags, and penguins to collect oceanographic data while gaining insights into…

  • Adams et al. (2025)

    Long-Term Trends of ‘ua‘u at Haleakalā National Park Josh Adams, Jackie Chistolini, and Emma Kelsey (USGS Western Ecological Research Center), in collaboration with Joy Tamayose (Haleakalā National Park) have been analyzing long-term records of ‘ua‘u (Hawaiian Petrel, Pterodroma sandwichensis) at Haleakalā National Park. The objectives of the effort are to determine long-term trends in ‘ua‘u…

  • Learned et al. (2025)

    The Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project (MNSRP) maintained ongoing recovery, monitoring, and management programs for listed and non-listed seabird species on Maui in 2024, and assisted in seabird monitoring and protection programs on Molokai. In addition to ongoing programs, MNSRP initiated a new project funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to survey for…