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Declive de la población reproductora de gaviota patiamarilla Larus michahellis en la costa vasca (Cantábrico oriental) durante el periodo 2000-2021 [PDF]
Munibe Ciencias Naturales, 2022 Censos recientes revelan un declive poblacional acusado de la gaviota patiamarilla Larus michahellis en buena parte de su área de distribución. Ya a mediados de la década de 2010 se registró en la costa vasca un declive cercano al 50% respecto al censo ...
Juan Arizaga +6 more
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Seabirds as a subsistence and cultural resource in two remote Alaskan communities
Ecology and Society, 2014 Small rural Alaskan communities face many challenges surrounding rapid social and ecological change. The role of local subsistence resources may change over time because of changes in social perception, economic need, and cultural patterns of use.
Rebecca C. Young +3 more
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Up for grabs: prey herding by penguins facilitates shallow foraging by volant seabirds [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Visual and olfactory signals are commonly used by seabirds to locate prey in the horizontal domain, but foraging success depends on prey depth and the seabird's ability to access it.
A. M. McInnes, P. A. Pistorius
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Impacts of fisheries on seabird communities
Scientia Marina, 2003 Long-line by-catch of albatrosses and petrels may soon lead to species extinctions. Set-net bycatch has caused major reductions in certain seabird populations. Some fisheries may decrease numbers of seabirds by reducing abundance of prey-fish.
Robert W. Furness
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Identification of an assembly site for migratory and tropical seabirds in the South Atlantic Ocean
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2015 Seabirds are good indicators of wider biodiversity and where they assemble in large numbers signifies sites important to many marine faunal species. Few such large assemblage sites have been identified and none in pelagic waters has been identified in ...
B. John Hughes +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2017 Seabirds are known to concentrate on prey patches or at predators aggregations standing for potential feeding opportunities. They may search for prey using olfaction or by detecting visually feeding con-specifics and sub-surface predators, or even boats.
Camille Assali +2 more
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Mediterranean seabird conservation: what can we do?
Scientia Marina, 2003 Human activities in the Mediterranean determine, to a large extent, the availability of food and breeding sites for seabirds, the two most important ecological requirements for breeding seabirds.
Eduardo Mínguez +3 more
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Avian Research, 2018 Background The banning of fisheries discards by imposing an obligation to land unwanted catch constitutes a key point of the Common Fishery Policy reform proposed by the European Commission.
Georgios Karris +6 more
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Molecular detection of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum in seabirds collected along the coast of Santa Catarina, Brazil [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia VeterináriaToxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum are two closely related protozoans that infect a wide range of animals, including birds. However, the occurrence of N. caninum and T. gondii in seabirds is unknown.
Ana Paula Sato +8 more
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Animals, 2023 The Atlantic puffin is a medium-sized seabird with black and white plumage and orange feet. It is distributed mainly along the northern Atlantic Ocean, and due, among other reasons, to human activities, it is in a threatened situation and classified as a
Marcos Fumero-Hernández +5 more
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