Documenting the short‐tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) clades historically present in British Columbia, Canada, through ancient DNA analysis of archaeological specimens by Thomas C. A. Royle, Eric. J. Guiry, Hua Zhang, Lauren T. Clark, Shalegh M. Missal, Sophie A. Rabinow, Margaretta James, Dongya Y. Yang

“…Abstract The short‐tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) is a threatened seabird whose present‐day range encompasses much of the North Pacific. …”
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Vocal tract anatomy of king penguins: morphological traits of two-voiced sound production by Hannah Joy Kriesell, Céline Le Bohec, Alexander F. Cerwenka, Moritz Hertel, Jean-Patrice Robin, Bernhard Ruthensteiner, Manfred Gahr, Thierry Aubin, Daniel Normen Düring

“…Here, we focus on the king penguin, a colonial seabird whose calls consist of two fundamental frequency bands and their respective harmonics. …”
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Evaluating population impacts of predation by owls on storm petrels in relation to proposed island mouse eradication by Nadav Nur, Russell W. Bradley, Leo Salas, Pete Warzybok, Jaime Jahncke

“…Abstract We quantify the expected demographic benefit to a seabird of conservation concern, the ashy storm‐petrel Oceanodroma homochroa, from the proposed eradication of introduced house mice Mus musculus on the South Farallon Islands, California. …”
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A coupled pelagic–benthic–sympagic biogeochemical model for the Bering Sea: documentation and validation of the BESTNPZ model (v2019.08.23) within a high-resolution regional ocean... by K. Kearney, K. Kearney, A. Hermann, A. Hermann, W. Cheng, W. Cheng, I. Ortiz, I. Ortiz, K. Aydin

“…<p>The Bering Sea is a highly productive ecosystem, supporting a variety of fish, seabird, and marine mammal populations, as well as large commercial fisheries. …”
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Improved Calibration and Data Processing Procedures of OPUS Optical Sensor for High-Resolution in situ Monitoring of Nitrate in Seawater by Münevver Nehir, Mario Esposito, Christian Begler, Carsten Frank, Oliver Zielinski, Oliver Zielinski, Eric P. Achterberg

“…Significant progress has been made over the last 10 years in improving data quality for seawater nitrate analysis using the ISUS and SUNA (Seabird Scientific, United States) optical sensors. …”
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Predicting Foraging Habitat of European Shags - A Multi-Year and Multi-Colony Tracking Approach to Identify Important Areas for Marine Conservation by Nina Dehnhard, Jenny Mattisson, Arnaud Tarroux, Tycho Anker-Nilssen, Svein-Håkon Lorentsen, Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard

“…Human activity in the coastal zone is increasing worldwide, putting a number of seabird species under pressure. Norway is no exception to this development, and with &gt; 35% of the NE Atlantic population of the currently declining European shag (Gulosus aristotelis) population, Norway has an international responsibility for the conservation of this species, and its important foraging habitats during breeding. …”
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Effect of Environmental Variables on African Penguin Vocal Activity: Implications for Acoustic Censusing by Franziska Hacker, Francesca Terranova, Gavin Sean Petersen, Emma Tourtigues, Olivier Friard, Marco Gamba, Katrin Ludynia, Tess Gridley, Lorien Pichegru, Nicolas Mathevon, David Reby, Livio Favaro

“…Global biodiversity is in rapid decline, and many seabird species have disproportionally poorer conservation statuses than terrestrial birds. …”
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Establishing Laysan and black-footed albatross breeding colonies using translocation and social attraction by Eric A. VanderWerf, Lindsay C. Young, C. Robert Kohley, Megan E. Dalton, Rachel Fisher, Leilani Fowlke, Sarah Donohue, Erika Dittmar

“…The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands support some of the largest tropical seabird colonies in the world, but these low-lying islands are threatened by sea level rise and increasing storm surge associated with climate change. …”
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Differences in diet between the two largest breeding colonies of Audouin's gulls: the effects of fishery activities by Vittorio Pedrocchi, Daniel Oro, Jacob González-Solís, Xavier Ruiz, Lluís Jover

“…Despite the fact that availability of discards was probably higher at the Ebro Delta than at Chafarinas, the per capita availability was not so different at both localities due to the increasing seabird community population at the Ebro Delta, which ca. doubled that at Chafarinas in the last decade.…”
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Migratory patterns of two major influenza virus host species on tropical islands by Camille Lebarbenchon, Solenn Boucher, Chris Feare, Muriel Dietrich, Christine Larose, Laurence Humeau, Matthieu Le Corre, Audrey Jaeger

“…Animal migration is a major driver of infectious agent dispersal. Duck and seabird migrations, for instance, play a key role in the spatial transmission dynamics and gene flow of avian influenza viruses (AIV), worldwide. …”
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High contrast panels and lights do not reduce bird bycatch in Baltic Sea gillnet fisheries by Rob Field, Rory Crawford, Robert Enever, Tomasz Linkowski, Graham Martin, Julius Morkūnas, Rasa Morkūnė, Yann Rouxel, Steffen Oppel

“…Keywords: Bycatch, Mitigation, Coastal gillnet fisheries, Sea duck, Seabird, Fisheries…”
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A Citizen Science Trial to Assess Perception of Wild Penguin Welfare by Rafael Freire, Melanie Massaro, Simon McDonald, Philip Trathan, Christine J. Nicol

“…Since penguin conservation is of general interest, we examined the human dimension of welfare assessment across a range of interest groups concerned with penguins, seabird biology and wildlife conservation. We provided participants with a Penguin Welfare Assessment Tool (PWAT) based on the five domains model. …”
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Genomic characterization of two novel pathogenic avipoxviruses isolated from pacific shearwaters (Ardenna spp.) by Subir Sarker, Shubhagata Das, Jennifer L. Lavers, Ian Hutton, Karla Helbig, Jacob Imbery, Chris Upton, Shane R. Raidal

“…Abstract Background Over the past 20 years, many marine seabird populations have been gradually declining and the factors driving this ongoing deterioration are not always well understood. …”
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Food-web and ecosystem structure of the open-ocean and deep-sea environments of the Azores, NE Atlantic by Telmo Morato, Telmo Morato, Emile Lemey, Gui Menezes, Gui Menezes, Christopher K Pham, Christopher K Pham, Joana Brito, Joana Brito, Ambre Soszynski, Tony J Pitcher, Johanna J Heymans

“…An ecosystem model with 45 functional groups, including a detritus group, two primary producer groups, eight invertebrate groups, 29 fish groups, three marine mammal groups, a turtle and a seabird group was built. Overall data quality measured by the pedigree index was estimated to be higher than the mean value of all published models. …”
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Reproductive success of South American terns (Sterna hirundinacea) from Cardos Islands, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil by Hélio A.A. Fracasso, Joaquim O. Branco

“…Sterna hirundinacea (Lesson, 1831) is a migratory seabird that breeds in the Pacific Coast (from Peru to Chile) and along the Atlantic coast of South America from Espírito Santo (Brazil) to Terra del Fuego (Argentina). …”
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Inorganic Forms of Nitrogen in the Deep Part of the Black Sea Based on the Expeditionary Data, 2016–2019 by S.I. Kondratev, A.V. Varenik, N.A. Orekhova

“…At more than 200 deep-sea stations, a cassette of 12 bathometers (Seabird-Electronics CTD-instrument) was applied for taking hydrochemical samples at certain isopycnic surfaces, usually at σt = 16.30; 16.25; 16.20; 16.15; 16.10; 16.05; 16.00; 15.95; 15.90; 15.80; 15.50, 14.0 kg/m3. …”
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Novel microsatellite markers reveal low genetic diversity and evidence of heterospecific introgression in the critically endangered Chinese Crested Tern (Thalasseus bernsteini) by Ningxin Gu, Guoling Chen, Jia Yang, Chenqing Zheng, Xiaohui Gao, Leyang Yuan, Siyu Wang, Zhongyong Fan, Yiwei Lu, Gang Song, Shuihua Chen, Yang Liu

“…The Chinese Crested Tern, Thalasseus bernsteini, is one of the most endangered seabird species in the world, with only small breeding populations of around 100 individuals. …”
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Spatial ecology, phenological variability and moulting patterns of the Endangered Atlantic petrel Pterodroma incerta by M Pastor-Prieto, R Ramos, Z Zajková, JM Reyes-González, ML Rivas, PG Ryan, J González-Solís

“…Insights into the year-round movements and behaviour of seabirds are essential to better understand their ecology and to evaluate possible threats at sea. …”
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Adaptive Response to Gillnets Bycatch in a North Sardinia Mediterranean Shag (<i>Gulosus aristotelis desmarestii</i>) Population by Valentina Satta, Angela Pira, Santino Cherchi, Sergio Nissardi, Andrea Rotta, Monica Pirastru, Paolo Mereu, Marco Zedda, Luisa Bogliolo, Salvatore Naitana, Giovanni Giuseppe Leoni

“…Mediterranean Shag (<i>Gulosus aristotelis desmarestii</i>) is a seabird endemic to the Mediterranean and Black Seas, recently included in the IUCN list of threatened Species. …”
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Health status of the red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) determined by hematology, biochemistry, blood gases, and physical examination by Alice Skehel, Catalina Ulloa, Diane Deresienski, Cristina Regalado, Juan Pablo Muñoz-Pérez, Juan Augusto Garcia, Britta Denise Hardesty, Ronald K. Passingham, Jason Steve Castañeda, Gregory A. Lewbart, Carlos A. Valle

“…The red-billed tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus, is a species of seabird native to the Galápagos archipelago, and widely distributed across the neotropics. …”
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