The world’s largest breeding colony of Leach’s Storm-petrel Hydrobates leucorhous has declined

• Published in: Bird Conservation International
• Main Authors: WILHELM, SABINA I., HEDD, APRIL, ROBERTSON, GREGORY J., MAILHIOT, JOSHUA, REGULAR, PAUL M., RYAN, PIERRE C., ELLIOT, RICHARD D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019
• Subjects: Burrows; Canada; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270919000248; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0959270919000248

Summary Despite the global significance of the Leach’s Storm-petrel Hydrobates leucorhous colony on Baccalieu Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, the estimate of 3.36 million breeding pairs reported for 1984 by Sklepkovych and Montevecchi stands as the single published population estimate for...