Modeling bird mortality associated with the M:V Citrus oil spill off St. Paul Island, Alaska

• Main Authors: Paul L. Flint A, Ada C. Fowler A, Robert F. Rockwell B
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Bird mortality; Detection probability; Oil spill; Persistence rate; Flint; The Beaches; King Eider; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.521.1664; http://research.amnh.org/users/rfr/flint99.pdf

We developed a model to estimate the number of bird carcasses that were likely deposited on the beaches of St. Paul Island, Alaska following the M:V Citrus oil spill in February 1996. Most of the islands beaches were searched on an irregular schedule, resulting in the recovery of 876 King Eider carc...