AMNWR 08/16 BIOLOGICAL MONITORING AT BULDIR ISLAND, ALASKA IN 2008: SUMMARY APPENDICES

• Main Authors: Photo Ian Jones, Kevin J. Payne, U. S. Fish, Wildlife Service
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: kittiwake; breeding chronology; Buldir Island; crested auklet; food habits; fork-tailed storm-petrel; Fratercula cirrhata; Fratercula corniculata; glaucous-winged gull; horned puffin; Larus glaucescens; Leach’s storm-petrel; least auklet; Oceanodroma furcata; Oceanodroma leucorhoa; parakeet auklet; pelagic cormorant; Phalacrocorax pelagicus; populations; productivity; red-legged kittiwake; Rissa brevirostris; Rissa tridactyla; thick-billed murre; tufted puffin; reproductive success; survival; Uria lomvia; whiskered auklet; East Cape; fratercula; rissa tridactyla; Alaska; Aleutian Islands; uria
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.376.1375; http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/A/297234693.pdf

East Cape, Buldir viewed from the seabird productivity plots at Spike camp“I should mention also the great scientific value [of Buldir]; a strictly isolated island with an isolated fauna in which the elements may interact unhindered. This will be of great value and interest to the biologist of the future”- Olaus Murie, 1936 in Biological investigations of the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska “We were a weather station, but in reality we soon realized that they did not care about our weather reports. They were getting them from other places, but if we failed to come on the air they could assume the Japanese had returned…Our group [of 5] which was there for 7 months had to have the other radio operator relieved. Went a bit balmy and we were afraid he was going to take a gun to us…”- Dave Grehl, 1943 U.S. Army weatherman stationed on Buldir Island “The cliffs of Buldir are forbidding; marine erosion is rapidly and steadily removing the island by peripheral attack.”