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 ...
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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 ...
The smell of marine plastic may attract seabirds
A recent study from the University of California, Davis might help explain why some seabirds eat so much plastic debris. While it’s widely thought that birds ...
Missing seabirds spell trouble for snakes
On Seahorse Key, an island on Florida’s Gulf Coast, seabirds used to swoop into the water to pick up fish, and fly away while inadvertently dropping some on the ...
Drones more precise for seabird monitoring
Frigatebirds nesting on the ground among herbaceous vegetation in tropical areas or penguins in remote sub-Antarctic areas of Australia are difficult for some ...
El Nino Likely Culprit for Thousands of Dead Alaska Seabirds
Warm weather and water conditions caused by el Nino may be the reason thousands of seabirds are washing up dead on Alaska shores or flying inland far from their ...