Ocean Sentry
A boom in Antarctic tourism could introduce new, infectious diseases to the continent’s penguin colonies, scientists warned in a new study released Friday…
December, 2014
November, 2014
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14 November
Seabirds’ plastic diet shows up in their feather oil
Scientists have developed a new technique to assess how much plastic a seabird has eaten. It involves a quick massage and a cotton swab…
October, 2014
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2 October
Toxins from plastic pollution impacting health of seabirds, scientists say
Plastic pollution is having a greater impact on seabirds than previously thought, scientists say…
July, 2014
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1 July
Videos show feral cats killing endangered seabirds on Kauai
Scientists reported on Thursday that feral cats are killing endangered seabirds in large numbers even in the most remote and rugged rainforests of the mountains of Kauai and it was all caught on video…
June, 2014
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30 June
Emperor penguins at risk of extinction, scientists warn
Antarctica’s emperor penguin population could fall by at least a fifth by 2100 as the sea ice on which the birds breed becomes less secure, predicts a new study…
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13 June
Penguins feeling the heat from rising temperatures
Scientists say penguin species in the Antarctic that once benefited from rising temperatures are now in decline due to warming gone too far…
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4 June
Scientists use GPS to study the impact fishing vessels have on seabirds
Fishing vessels have a far bigger ecological footprint than previously thought, according to research which tracked the movement and behavior of seabirds using GPS devices. A team of scientists led by the University of Exeter discovered that northern gannets change their behavior…
May, 2014
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27 May
Seabird sanctuary threatened by luxury hotel
Sa Conillera island, one of the best preserved Mediterranean seabird colonies in the Balearic archipelago and home to the Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwater, is under severe threat. Plans to build a boutique hotel in the uninhabited reserve have caused alarm across Ibiza…
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16 May
The Gulf Oil Spill may have killed as many as 800,000 birds
After the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew out in the Gulf of Mexico some 50 miles from the nearest land, responders were left to cope with a search area of nearly 40,000 square miles, as well as wind and currents that kept evidence of damage away from the more easily …
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14 May
Plastic pollution threatening seabirds
Ocean-side plastic pollution, specifically plastic ingestion, is threatening seabirds according to a study published on Marine Pollution Bulletin. Plastic ingestions affects around 94 percent of Cory’s shearwaters, a type of seabird, on the Catalan coast. In the case of Yelkouan shearwaters and Balearic shearwaters, the report states that 70 percent …
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2 May
Prestige oil spill linked to drop in seabird chicks
Before the 2002 Prestige oil tanker spill off the coast of Spain, colonies of European shags produced roughly the same number of chicks. For at least 10 years after the spill, however, the reproductive success of the coastal seabirds dropped by 45 percent in oiled colonies, researchers report April 30 …
April, 2014
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22 April
Lack of breeding threatens blue-footed boobies’ survival
Blue-footed Boobies are on the decline in the Galápagos. A new study appearing in the journal Avian Conservation and Ecology indicates numbers of the iconic birds, known for their bright blue feet and propensity to burst into dance to attract mates, have fallen more than 50 percent in less than …