Dedicated to the study and conservation of Pacific Seabirds and their environment.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Pacific Seabird Group 2024 Regional Report – Hong Kong, China Yat-tung Yu and John C.T. Chung, with the team of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society, have continued banding Bridled Terns (Onychoprion anaethetus; BRTE) in Hong Kong for seven consecutive years as of 2023. In total, 447 Bridled Terns were banded from 2017 to 2023,…
Yasuko Suzuki (BirdLife International), Motohiro Ito and his students (Toyo University), 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. At a Common Murre (Uria aalge) and Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) aviary with…
My research team studies the hydrodynamics of foot propulsion in waterfowl in general and diving birds in particular. We use captive birds trained to swim underwater in a large pool facility designed to capture the motions of the birds and their feet underwater using high-speed video. We then analyze the movies to extract paddling kinematics…
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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The objective of the Conservation Fund is to advance the conservation of seabirds in developing countries primarily in or bordering the Pacific Ocean by providing funds for conservation and restoration activities, and building within-country seabird expertise. Learn More »
