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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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
In 2023 Anne Schaefer and Mary Anne Bishop (Prince William Sound Science Center) conducted at-sea marine bird surveys in Prince William Sound to document density and distribution patterns in and around the oil-tanker escort lane during the non-breeding season. This was the third annual survey conducted for this study, and a final survey planned for…
Katie Stoner, PhD student under the advisement of Dr. Don Lyons at Oregon State University, conducted her second field season of geolocator tagging work on Tufted and Horned Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata and F. corniculata) in partnership with Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) Avian Biologist Robin Corcoran. With field assistance from Megan Boldenow of U.S. Fish…
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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