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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Yaquina Head Seabird Monitoring: 2024 marked the 18th consecutive year of seabird monitoring at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area in Newport, Oregon, and the 4th consecutive year of monitoring at Pirate Cove in Depoe Bay, Oregon. Will Kennerley (Faculty Research Assistant, Oregon State University; OSU), Aya Attal (National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)…
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,…
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),…
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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