Does beach replenishment smother a shorebird’s next meal?
This article is available in Spanish through a partnership with the Institute of Ecology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
90 percent of seabirds are eating plastic
Few people would be surprised to hear that there’s lots of plastic in the oceans, and that this is a bad thing.
Faced with bad weather, female seabirds keep fishing
Climate change discussions are typically dominated by temperature, with ocean acidification as a close second. But those winds are slowly changing—literally.
Citizen scientists find good news for Puget Sound seabirds
Seabirds have been suggested as critical “sentinel species,” indicators of overall ecosystem health, at least for coastal habitats.
A two-for-one benefit from vaccinating seabirds
When it comes to the threats that affect wildlife conservation, the usual suspects are anthropogenic in nature: habitat loss, overfishing, circadian disruption, physical barriers to movement
Could hand-reared penguins help seed new colonies?
Along the Western Cape of South Africa lives a group of endangered African penguins.
Seabirds fly toward the light, get run over by cars
You shouldn’t litter. Everybody knows that rule, perhaps thanks to grisly images seabirds with six-pack soda rings around their necks. But not all pollution is made of trash.
Penguins act as coal mine canaries for the Southern Ocean
Miners used to bring caged canaries down into the mines with them.
