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Webinar: Impacts of Marine Debris on Birds in the Gulf of Maine Region

  • March 8, 2021
  • webinar

February 16, 2021 DESCRIPTION: This webinar, hosted by USFWS and the NOAA Marine Debris Program, presents results of a literature review-based project initiated in 2020 to compile what is currently known about the impacts of marine debris on birds in…

Tracking and Movement Patterns of Black-capped Petrels Captured At-sea

  • March 16, 2020
  • Tracking

The Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata) is a highly endangered seabird in the North Atlantic, is listed as globally Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and is currently being reviewed for listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.…

Offfshore Wind. European Wind Energy Association

Regional Collaboration to Understand and Minimize Waterbird Impacts from Offshore Wind Energy Development

  • March 16, 2020
  • Offshore Wind

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority is leading a range of regional, science-based stakeholder engagement efforts under the umbrella of the Environmental Technical Working Group for Offshore Wind (E-TWG). The E-TWG, which was formed in 2018, is…

Plastic Ingestion and Bycatch Demographics of Great Shearwaters from the Gulf of Maine

  • March 16, 2020
  • Bycatch, Foraging Ecology, Diet & Prey

Since 1950 globally monitored seabird populations have declined significantly, with possible causal factors including plastic pollution, fisheries bycatch, and climate change. Seabirds are particularly prone to plastic ingestion and are excellent indicators of plastic pollution. Procellariiformes, like Great Shearwaters (GRSH; Ardenna…

An Examination of Common, Arctic, Roseate, and Least Terns Diets in a Changing Climate in the Gulf of Maine

  • March 16, 2020
  • Foraging Ecology, Diet & Prey

Keenan Yakola, a Masters student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a fellow with the DOI Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, completed his thesis evaluating chick diets of Common, Arctic, Least and Roseate Terns on seven seabird colonies (Matinicus…

High Resolution Aerial Ecological Baseline Studies of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, North Carolina and South Carolina

  • March 16, 2020
  • Surveys

On behalf of Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Normandeau in collaboration with APEM continues to collect information using ultra-high resolution digital imagery along the North Carolina and South Carolina coast line. Survey effort includes more detailed grid surveys of…

Aerial Counts of Seabird Colonies in South Carolina

  • March 16, 2020
  • Colony Management & Monitoring, Foraging Ecology, Diet & Prey

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources has been censusing nesting seabirds annually since the 1970’s. Nine species of seabirds, including Brown Pelicans, Royal Terns, Sandwich Terns, and Black Skimmers, regularly nest in South Carolina in large colonies of hundreds…

Seabird Monitoring at Machias Seal Island, New Brunswick

  • March 16, 2020
  • Colony Management & Monitoring, Foraging Ecology, Diet & Prey

At Machias Seal Island (MSI), 2019 marked the 25th consecutive year of research and monitoring of the seabird community. Graduate students, Mark Dodds and Mark Baran, helped train our new crew on MSI and continued to analyze and write their theses.…

Updating 2015 and 2016 seabird-fishery interaction estimates for the US Northeast and Mid-Atlantic waters

  • October 15, 2019
  • Bycatch

An in press NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Lab Reference report (Sigourney et al. in press) provides bycatch estimates for 10 species of seabirds caught in commercial fisheries off the east coast of the United States during 2015 and 2016. This…

Using Fecal DNA Analysis to Monitor Tern Diets in Gulf of Maine

  • October 15, 2019
  • Foraging Ecology, Diet & Prey

In partnership with University of New Hampshire biologists (Gemma Clucas and Adrienne Kovach), Shoals Marine Lab tested a fecal DNA method to monitor tern diets at our mixed breeding colony in the Gulf of Maine. Adult Common Terns defecate upon…

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