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| | Conservation | | |  Seabird conservation concerns include: - bycatch (seabird/fisheries interactions),
- monitoring of seabird populations,
- seabird restoration following oil spills,
- establishment of seabird sanctuaries, and
- endangered species.
In some cases, removal of feral (non-native) predators is required, such as a project to remove rats, Rattus spp from small islands near Adak, Aleutian Islands, Alaska to restore seabird populations and another project to remove introduced arctic foxes, Alopex lagopus.
Population trends of seabirds differ greatly among species and sites so that long term ecological research is required. Researchers are relating seabird productivity and population trends to variations in climate, oceanography, and structure of the marine ecosystem. | | Photo title: Cormorant, Phalacrocorax coronatus (Namibia) | | Photo credit: FAO Fisheries | | |  | | Photo title: Seagulls at Waihiki Island, New Zealand | | Photo credit: Julia K Wells | | |  | | Photo title: Soofi gull, Larus hemprichi (Oman) | | Photo credit: FAO Fisheries | | | | |
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| Seabirds work hard to ensure survival
The Australian 16 August 2010 |  |
| | A long-term study of some of the Indian Ocean's most iconic seabirds has uncovered alarming findings. There were 10,000 breeding pairs of red-footed booby birds on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean in 1989, but numbers appeared to have plummeted this year. In the past month, a survey team from Hamburg University has found just 24 nests in a coastal strip of jungle where there were 212 last year. | |
Read more at http://www.theaustralian ... 905602102.
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