BREEDING STATUS AND POPULATION TRENDS OF SEABIRDS IN ALASKA, 2012 Compiled By:

• Main Authors: U. S. Fish, Wildlife Service, Donald E. Dragoo, Heather M. Renner, David B. Ironsa, Nwr Homer Irons, Wildlife Service Migratory Bird
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Cepphus; Cerorhinca; Chukchi Sea; common murre; crested auklet; fork-tailed storm-petrel; Fratercula; Fulmarus; glaucous-winged gull; Gulf of Alaska; hatching chronology; horned puffin; Larus; Leach’s storm-petrel; least auklet; long-term monitoring; northern fulmar; Oceanodroma; parakeet auklet; pelagic cormorant; Phalacrocorax; pigeon guillemot; Prince William Sound; productivity; red-faced cormorant; red-legged kittiwake; rhinoceros auklet; Rissa; seabirds; Synthliboramphus; thick-billed murre; tufted puffin; Uria; whiskered auklet; Fulmar; Chukchi; Common Murre; fratercula; Northern Fulmar; Alaska; uria
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.645.7352; http://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/B/438155718/438155718-2012.pdf

When using information from this report, data, results or conclusions specific to a location(s) should not be used in other publications without first obtaining permission from the original contributor(s). Results and conclusions general to large geographic areas may be cited without permission. This report updates previous reports. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. iExecutive Summary Data are collected annually for selected species of marine birds at breeding colonies on the far-flung Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), and at other areas in Alaska, to monitor the condition of the marine ecosystem and to evaluate the conservation status of species under the trust of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The strategy for colony monitoring includes estimating timing of nesting events