Predicting at-sea distribution of Razorbill in the St. Lawrence Gulf and Estuary, Québec, Canada during the breeding period using GPS telemetry by Raphael A. Lavoie, Mathieu Tetreault, Francois Bolduc, Gabriel Bergeron, David J. Lieske

“…Seabirds in the St. Lawrence Gulf and Estuary are vulnerable to anthropogenic threats such as oil spills and fisheries bycatch. …”
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Maritime Paleoindian technology, subsistence, and ecology at an ~11,700 year old Paleocoastal site on California’s Northern Channel Islands, USA by Jon M. Erlandson, Todd J. Braje, Amira F. Ainis, Brendan J. Culleton, Kristina M. Gill, Courtney A. Hofman, Douglas J. Kennett, Leslie A. Reeder-Myers, Torben C. Rick, Karen Hardy

“…The bones of waterfowl and seabirds, fish, and marine mammals, along with small amounts of shellfish document a diverse subsistence strategy. …”
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Echoes of the 2013–2015 Marine Heat Wave in the Eastern Bering Sea and Consequent Biological Responses by Igor M. Belkin, Jeffrey W. Short

“…The multi-year duration of The Blob might have preconditioned the Bering Sea for the record low seasonal sea ice extent during the winter of 2017–2018 and the disappearance of the cold pool in 2016 and 2018 that profoundly affected zooplankton, invertebrates, fishes, seabirds, and marine mammals. A comparison of the time series of population responses across trophic levels suggests that The Blob lowered primary production during spring, increased production of small copepods and jellyfish, and reduced the efficiency of energy transfer to higher trophic levels. …”
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The bycatch estimate of threatened marine megavertebrates in Moroccan fleets operating in the Mediterranean Coast by El Arraf Sana, Idrisi Mohammed Malouli, Carpentieri Paolo, El Bakali Maryam, Nourredine Abid, Bakkali Mohammed

“…This study addresses the information gaps by a descriptive analysis of bycatch of vulnerable species (i.e. seabirds, sea turtles, seals, marine mammals, sharks and rays’ species) in in Moroccan Mediterranean area. …”
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A novel antibody-based biomarker for chronic algal toxin exposure and sub-acute neurotoxicity. by Kathi A Lefebvre, Elizabeth R Frame, Frances Gulland, John D Hansen, Preston S Kendrick, Richard P Beyer, Theo K Bammler, Frederico M Farin, Emma M Hiolski, Donald R Smith, David J Marcinek

“…The neurotoxic amino acid, domoic acid (DA), is naturally produced by marine phytoplankton and presents a significant threat to the health of marine mammals, seabirds and humans via transfer of the toxin through the foodweb. …”
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Post‐colony swimming migration in the genus Uria by Benjamin Merkel, Hallvard Strøm

“…Seabirds within the Alcini subfamily have a unique breeding strategy, with their offspring leaving the colony flightless, at only a quarter of adult body size, accompanied by the father and fledge (become independent) out at sea. …”
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Patterns of GPS tracks suggest nocturnal foraging by incubating Peruvian pelicans (Pelecanus thagus). by Carlos B Zavalaga, Giacomo Dell'Omo, Paolo Becciu, Ken Yoda

“…Most seabirds are diurnal foragers, but some species may also feed at night. …”
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Ecological stoichiometry and density responses of plant-arthropod communities on cormorant nesting islands. by Gundula S Kolb, Cecilia Palmborg, Peter A Hambäck

“…Seabirds deposit large amounts of nutrient rich guano on their nesting islands. …”
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The role of climate and food availability on driving decadal abundance patterns of highly migratory pelagic predators in the Bay of Biscay by Maite eLouzao, Isabel eAfán, María eSantos, Tom eBrereton

“…Here, we assessed whether the abundance patterns of two trans-equatorial migrating pelagic seabirds, the great shearwater and the sooty shearwater (Puffinus gravis and P. griseus, respectively), have changed over recent decades in the Bay of Biscay in relation to the main drivers shaping their migratory journey: climatic factors and food availability. …”
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Individual consistency and phenotypic plasticity in rockhopper penguins: female but not male body mass links environmental conditions to reproductive investment. by Nina Dehnhard, Marcel Eens, Laurent Demongin, Petra Quillfeldt, Maud Poisbleau

“…In marine habitats, increasing ocean temperatures due to global climate change may distinctly reduce nutrient and consequently food availability for seabirds. Food availability is a known driver of body mass and reproductive investment in birds, but these traits may also depend on individual effects. …”
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Developing UAV monitoring of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands’ iconic land-based marine predators by Dickens, J, Hollyman, PR, Hart, T, Collins, MA

“…The sub-Antarctic islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are home to globally significant populations of seabirds and marine mammals. South Georgia hosts the largest breeding populations of Antarctic fur seals, southern elephant seals and king penguins as well as significant populations of wandering, black-browed and grey-headed albatross. …”

Case report of puffinosis in a Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) suggesting environmental aetiology by Esmonde, NPG, Hanna, REB, Patel, JG, Smyth, VJ, Caplat, P, Smyth, W, Jaggers, P, Padget, O, Guilford, T, Perrins, C, Reid, N

“…Puffinosis is a disease of a range of seabirds characterised by dorsal and ventral blistering of their webbed feet, conjunctivitis, dry necrosis, leg spasticity, head shaking, loss of balance, tremors, and death. …”

Floating macro- and microplastics around the Southern Ocean: Results from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition by Giuseppe Suaria, Vonica Perold, Jasmine R. Lee, Fabrice Lebouard, Stefano Aliani, Peter G. Ryan

“…While macroplastics have been washing up on Southern Ocean islands for decades and microplastics have been found in seabirds from the region since 1960, there are still relatively few quantitative data on the amount of plastic pollution, especially with regard to floating plastics, at high southern latitudes. …”
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Residency, recruitment, and stopover duration of hatch-year Roseate Terns (Sterna dougallii) during the premigratory staging period by Kayla L. Davis, Sarah M. Karpanty, Jeffrey A. Spendelow, Jonathan B. Cohen, Melissa A. Althouse, Katharine C. Parsons, Cristin F. Luttazi, Daniel H. Catlin, Daniel Gibson

“…Seabird demography and spatial distribution outside of the breeding season are poorly understood, and migratory stopover and staging sites represent important energetic bottlenecks during the avian annual cycle. …”
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Hexachlorobutadiene (HCBD) contamination in the Arctic environment: A review by Jennifer E. Balmer, Hayley Hung, Katrin Vorkamp, Robert J. Letcher, Derek C.G. Muir

“…Available data for Arctic biota suggest that terrestrial birds and mammals and seabirds, have comparatively higher HCBD concentrations than fish and marine mammals, warranting additional research. …”
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Coronavirus in cat flea: findings and questions regarding COVID-19 by Margarita Villar, Isabel G. Fernández de Mera, Sara Artigas-Jerónimo, Marinela Contreras, Christian Gortázar, José de la Fuente

“…Based on the fact that the domestic cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis, are abundant ectoparasites infesting humans, companion animals and wildlife and that coronavirus-like agents have been identified in the ectoparasite tick vector, Ixodes uriae of seabirds, herein we considered the presence of coronaviruses in general and SARS-CoV-2 in particular in C. felis. …”
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Vertebrate Palaeoecology of the Pisco Formation (Miocene, Peru): Glimpses into the Ancient Humboldt Current Ecosystem by Alberto Collareta, Olivier Lambert, Felix G. Marx, Christian de Muizon, Rafael Varas-Malca, Walter Landini, Giulia Bosio, Elisa Malinverno, Karen Gariboldi, Anna Gioncada, Mario Urbina, Giovanni Bianucci

“…We summarise observations on hundreds of fossil whales, dolphins, seals, seabirds, turtles, crocodiles, sharks, rays, and bony fishes to reconstruct ecological relationships in the wake of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum, and the marked cooling that followed it. …”
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Helminths in common eiders (Somateria mollissima): Sex, age, and migration have differential effects on parasite loads by Stine Vestbo, Claus Hindberg, Mark R. Forbes, Mark L. Mallory, Flemming Merkel, Rolanda J. Steenweg, Peter Funch, H. Grant Gilchrist, Gregory J. Robertson, Jennifer F. Provencher

“…Keywords: Arctic parasitology, Body size, Gastrointestinal parasites, Migration, Seabird…”
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Climatic and ecological drivers of euphausiid community structure vary spatially in the Barents Sea: relationships from a long time series (1952-2009) by Emma Lvovna Orlova, Andrey Viktorovich Dolgov, Paul E Renaud, Paul E Renaud, Michael eGreenacre, Michael eGreenacre, Claudia eHalsband, Victor Anatolyevich Ivshin

“…Euphausiids play an important role in transferring energy from ephemeral primary producers to fish, seabirds, and marine mammals in the Barents Sea ecosystem. …”
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Growth duration, life history and ecological traits of bony-toothed birds (Odontopterygiformes): implications from bone histology by Stanislav Dobrovolsky, Leonid Gorobets

“…Bony-toothed birds (Odontopterygiformes), an order of seabirds that existed throughout most of the Cenozoic, had unusually fragile, thin-walled bones. …”
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