Tag: seabirds

Decoys and a good set of speakers are the perfect tools for attracting Caspian terns to new nesting grounds — and perhaps away from imperiled salmonids they feed on. “It’s really...

Seabirds in Canada and the Pacific Arctic show greater concentrations of mercury contamination than their Arctic European counterparts, according to a meta-review. Although most of the Canadian seabirds had concentrations...

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 over,...

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 home. A population...

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...

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...

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 ocean, according to...

It has been over 300 years since Newell’s shearwater (Puffinus newelli) and Hawaiian petrel (Pterodroma sandwichensis) colonies were detected on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Neither have been found since European...

Seabirds around the world are increasingly finding themselves in competition for food with the fishing industry, researchers found, as fishing vessels increase their catches of potential seabird prey. “We’re fishing...

Invasive rats are notorious for their devastation of island ecosystems, but their damage might go deeper than scientists once believed. Biologists recently discovered that nonnative rats could impede the flow...