Resources

Important Marine Bird Resources

AMBC Documents

• Priority Species List
• Recommendations on BOEM Avian Survey Guidelines — AMBC Marine Spatial Planning Working Group

AMBC Member Project Summaries & Accomplishments

• 2012
• 2013
• 2014
• 2017
• 2018
• 2019

AMBC Annual Meetings

2016 Meeting, New Bern, NC

• Agenda
• Pre-meeting questionnaire Results
• Notes (raw/draft)

2017 Webinar

• Agenda
• Presentation
• Notes and Actions (raw/draft)

Reports and Publications of Interest

At-sea Surveys

• Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS)
  USFWS-BOEM Aerial Survey Report (2010-2014); NOAA-BOEM Shipboard-Aerial Survey Reports
• Modeling At-Sea Density of Marine Birds to Support Atlantic Marine Renewable Energy Planning (NOAA-NCCOS)

Colony Management & Monitoring

• North American Waterbird Conservation Plan (2002)
• Mid-Atlantic/New England/Maritimes (MANEM) Waterbird Plan + Appendix (2006)
• Southeast United States Regional Waterbird Conservation Plan + Table (2006)

Seabird Tracking

• Tracking offshore occurrence of Common Terns, endangered Roseate Terns, and threatened Piping Plovers with VHF arrays + Appendices (Loring et al., 2019)
• Movements and foraging habitats of Great Shearwaters (Puffinus gravis) in the Gulf of Maine (Powers et al., 2017)
• Determining fine-scale use and movement patterns of diving bird species in federal waters of the Mid-Atlantic United States using satellite telemetry (Spiegel et al., 2017)
• First satellite tracks of the endangered black-capped petrel (Jodice et al. 2015)

Foraging Ecology, Diet & Prey

• The role of sand lances (Ammodytes sp.) in the Northwest Atlantic Ecosystem: A synthesis of current knowledge with implications for conservation and management (Staudinger et al. 2020)
• A synthesis of changing phenology in the Gulf of Maine ecosystem (Staudinger et al., 2019)

Bycatch

• Business Plan for Addressing & Reducing Marine Bird Bycatch in Atlantic U.S. Fisheries (2011 draft)
• Seabird bycatch vulnerability to pelagic longline fisheries: Ecological traits matter (Zhou et al., 2019)
• Comprehensive estimates of seabird–fishery interactions for the US Northeast and mid‐Atlantic (J.M. Hatch, 2018)

Marine Debris

• Southeast Marine Debris Action Plan
• Gulf of Maine Marine Debris Action Plan

Disease

• Great shearwater (Puffinus gravis) mortality events along the eastern coast of the United States (Haman et al. 2013)

Useful Links

Marine Bird Abundance & Distribution

• Ocean Data Portals – Northeast, Mid-Atlantic
• Gulf of Mexico Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (GOMAPPS)
• Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS)

Coordinated Colonial Waterbird Monitoring

• Coordinated Colonial Waterbird Database effort

Beached Bird Monitoring

• Seabird Ecological Assessment Network (SEANET)

Offshore Energy Development

• Bureau of Ocean Energy Management – Completed Bird and Bat Study Reports
• Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Avian Survey Guidelines (2017)
• NY State Energy Research and Development Authority Offshore Wind-Wildlife Efforts (Environmental Technical Working Group)

Fisheries Interactions

• Seabird Maps and Information for Fisheries (American Bird Conservancy)

Marine Debris

NOAA Marine Debris Program

• Northeast
• Mid-Atlantic
• Southeast

Webinars

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