The Roles of Introduced Rats and Commercial Fishing in the Decline of Ancient Murrelets on Langara Island, British Columbia

• Published in: Conservation Biology
• Main Author: Bertram, Douglas F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1995
• Subjects: Burrows; Langara Island; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.1995.09040865.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1523-1739.1995.09040865.x; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1046/j.1523-1739.1995.09040865.x/fullpdf

I examined the decline of Ancient Murrelets ( Synthliboramphus antiquus ), a small, burrow‐nesting seabird, at Langara Island. The island’s seabird colony was historically one of the largest colonies of Ancient Murrelets in British Columbia—perhaps in the world—with an estimated 200,000 nesting pair...