Updates each year in Pacific Seabirds. Symposia an

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ATLANTIC, NORTH AMERICAN AND WORLD SEABIRD
SCIENCE
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Southeastern Seabird Working Group

• http//people.clemson.edu/pjodice/sesbwg.html

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Atlantic Marine Bird Conservation Cooperative

• http//www.acjv.org/marinebirds.htm
• NFWF

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Pacific Seabird Group

• http//www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/
• Started in 1972
• NonPacific US Representative
• Updates each year in Pacific Seabirds
• Symposia and publications available online
• Abstracts available online
• Listserve
• http//www.seabirds.net/

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PSG 08 Sessions

• Forage fish populations
• Marine wind and tidal energy
• Fisheries interactions
• Economic growth, seabirds, and ocean habitats
• MPAs
• Monitoring and statistics
• Technology
• Attraction, tracking, predators

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World Seabird Conference

• http//www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/1stWorldSeabird
  Conference/1stWorldSeabirdConference.pdf
• Seabirds A Global Perspective
• 7 11 September 2010, Victoria, BC
• Seabird/fisheries interactions
• Climate change
• Island restoration/eradication of invasives
• Oil
• Migration and wintering
• Emerging technologies
• Life history and evolution

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World Seabird Conference

• Proposed Products
• Seabird colony database
• Seabird reproductive failure alert
• Seabird die-off alert
• Update Croxall et al. 1985, Status and
  Conservation of the Worlds Seabirds

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Marine Ornithology

• http//www.marineornithology.org/
• Online back to 1988
• Twice per year
• Biology, ecology, methods, conservation
• Traditionally Southern Ocean, Pacific, African
• Expanding coverage, NA Editor

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Seabird Web Databases

• North Pacific Seabird Colony database
• http//164.159.151.40/northpacificseabirds/colonie
  s/viewer.htm
• Pacific Seabird Monitoring Database
• http//www.absc.usgs.gov/research/psinfonet/psmdb/
  splashpsmdb.htm
• North Pacific Pelagic Seabird Database
• http//www.absc.usgs.gov/research/NPPSD/index.htm
• North Pacific Seabird Diet Database
• Seabird Information Network

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BirdLife International

• http//www.birdlife.org/action/science/species/sea
  birds/
• Global Seabird Progamme
• Sea Change newsletter
• Marine Important Bird Areas
• http//www.birdlife.org/action/science/species/sea
  birds/marine_ibas.html

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Patterns of seabird distribution inform selection
of marine IBAs

• Work undertaken to date indicates the following
  aspects of seabird distribution patterns will
  inform how marine IBAs are to be selected
• coastal foraging areas. These are seaward
  extensions of breeding colonies, for both short
  ranging species e.g. for coastal species such as
  terns, gulls and shags and long range species
  such as larger penguins and gannets, and
  albatrosses which, while chicks are young, may
  travel 100-200km
• coastal concentrations of non-breeding
  waterbirds, including concentrations of feeding
  and moulting divers, grebes and benthos-feeding
  ducks.
• migration hotspotsimportant foraging areas for
  pelagic species, often on highly productive
  shelf-break areas, eddies and upwellings, which
  may be hundreds of kilometres from breeding
  colonies. Examples of important oceanic areas
  include the Humboldt Current, the Patagonian
  Shelf, the Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone, the
  Benguelan Current and the Canary Current.