Watch: Murres dive deep on fishing missions
Rappelling down a 650-foot cliff to catch seabirds on a remote island just below the Arctic Circle was scary enough. “The first time you look over and you rappel ...
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Watch: Biologists help albatross escape missile range
When albatross populations on the Hawaiian island of Kauai found themselves under aerial attack, the U.S. Navy and biologists teamed up to find the birds a new ...
Starvation prompted mass puffin die-off
It was the end of October 2016 when the first reports of dead puffins and auklets began trickling in on the small Pribilof island of St. Paul. Local Aleuts had ...
Conservationists capture rare, elusive seabirds for tracking
Brad Keitt woke up early enough to make it to the dock by 5 a.m., to get everything loaded onto the research vessel by first light. The sport fishing boats would be ...
Balloons play an outsize role in seabird deaths
Parents may want to think twice before allowing their children to let balloons fly off into the atmosphere. When seemingly harmless latex balloons end up in the ...
Unseen for 300 years, endangered seabirds heard on Oahu
It has been over 300 years since Newell’s shearwater (Puffinus newelli) and Hawaiian petrel (Pterodroma sandwichensis) colonies were detected on the Hawaiian ...
Seabirds face growing competition from fishing industry
Seabirds around the world are increasingly finding themselves in competition for food with the fishing industry, researchers found, as fishing vessels increase ...
Removing invasive island rats could help coral reefs
Invasive rats are notorious for their devastation of island ecosystems, but their damage might go deeper than scientists once believed. Biologists recently ...
Over more than a century, seabirds have changed prey
Seabirds in Hawaii have changed their prey preference over the last 125 years, according to new research, suggesting that more birds are consuming squid rather than ...
JWM study: Low-quality marine habitat impacts murrelet
Dubbed “the enigma of the Pacific” until ornithologists finally tracked down its nest in the 1970s, the marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) is a seabird ...