Mysterious Death Of Seabirds Triggers Bird Flu Concern

The mysterious death of several seabirds on the Gulf of Carpentaria in Australia has triggered concerns that these dead birds could be harboring the bird flu virus//. However, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service said that there was no cause for panic and that they were sending out ...

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Industrial contaminants spread by seabirds in High Arctic, new Canadian study shows

Seabirds are the surprising culprits in delivering pollutants ?through their guano ?to seemingly pristine northern ecosystems, a new Canadian study shows. The most common form of wildlife in the Arctic, seabirds are responsible for transporting most of the human-made contaminants to some coastal ...

Study investigates 'divorce' among Galapagos seabirds

Being a devoted husband and father is not enough to keep an avian marriage together for the Nazca booby, a long-lived seabird found in the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador. Many Nazca booby females switch mates after successfully raising a chick, according to a Wake Forest University s...

NOAA bans commercial harvesting of krill

...because they convert microscopic phytoplankton into a food source for numerous other species and are a principal food source for many species of fish, seabirds and marine mammals. Some of the species that depend on krill as prey are listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act, and man...

Study links seabird deaths to soap-like foam produced by red-tide algae

... In late 2007, hundreds of dead and stranded seabirds washed up on the shores of Monterey Bay, their feathers saturated with water and coated with an unknown substance. After an intensive investigation, s...

Animal trackers collaborate on new Google Earth for oceans

...yer, called GTOPP (Global Tagging of Pelagic Predators), users can explore the large-scale migrations of tunas, sharks, whales, seals, sea turtles and seabirds seeing where they go through time, and even swimming along with them in special "fly-through" animations, which provide an "animal's eye view" of the...

WWF seeks innovative solutions to bycatch through worldwide competition

...ny of which are discarded back into the sea, often dead or dying. Every year, more than four million sharks, billfish, sea turtles, marine mammals and seabirds are caught on longlines in the Pacific Ocean alone. In announcing the competition, WWF officials said they are searching for real-world fishing soluti...

A happy new year for penguins

...t of Argentina. The park, which became official earlier this month, protects half a million penguins along with several species of rare seabirds and the region's only population of South American fur seals. It is the first protected area in Argentina specifically designed to safeguard not only...

Ocean acidification from CO2 emissions will cause physiological impairment to jumbo squid

... feeding behavior. Jumbo squid are an important predator in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and they are a large component of the diet of marine mammals, seabirds and fish. According to Seibel, jumbo squid migrate between warm surface waters at night where CO 2 levels are increasing and deeper waters during...

Seabird ammonia emissions contribute to atmospheric acidity

...terdam, September 23, 2008 Ammonia emissions from seabirds have been shown to be a significant source of nitr...rom domesticated animals such as poultry and pigs, seabirds are the most significant emitters of ammonia to th...ts to predict the likely changing contributions of seabirds to atmospheric emissions of ammonia." According to...

Human influences challenge penguin populations

... The ecology of penguins makes these iconic swimming and diving seabirds of the Southern Hemisphere unusually susceptible to environmental changes. Pronounced warming in the Antarctic, as well as commercial fishing, mining,...