Marine

• Main Authors: Mary Cody, U. S. Fish, Wildlire Service
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Cover Photo; East Cape; Round Island; Black-legged Kittiwake; Common Murre; walrus*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.383.5305; http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/RoundIsland/714160020-2004.pdf

(ADF&G) staff were present on Round Island from May 5 through August 11,2004. We counted walrus daily on all East side beaches. On West Main Beach, we counted walrus on 51 out of94 days. The mean daily walrus count on Round Island was 549, with a range of 0 walrus on June 6 to 3494 walrus on May 6. Staff documented 43 walrus disturbance events resulting in 35 low level disturbances, 7 medium level disturbances, and 1 high level disturbance. Steller sea lions were counted at the East Cape haul out every 2 to 5 days. Efforts to photograph injured, tagged or branded sea lions were greatly increased during early 2004. Photos were sent to ADF&G's taglbrand re-sighting working group. The mean number of Steller sea lions present during counts in 2004 was 93, with a range of 15 on July 25 to a high of 472 on May 10, 2004. Seabirds productivity work and population plot counts were continued for pelagic cormorants, common mUITes and black-legged kittiwakes. Unsuccessful attempts were made to collect common murre and black-legged kittiwake eggs as a part of the Seabird Tissue Archival and Monitoring Program (STAMP.)