COUNTS OF SURFACE-NESTING SEABIRDS BREEDING AT PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, SUMMER 2001/02

• Main Authors: RYAN, P G, COOPER, J, DYER, B M, UNDERHILL, L G, CRAWFORD, R JM, BESTER, M N
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: NISC 2005
• Subjects: albatrosses; giant petrels; gull; penguins; Prince Edward Island; seabirds; shag; skuas; Subantarctic; terns; Kerguelen; Giganteus; Single Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Diomedea exulans; Eudyptes chrysolophus; Giant Petrels; Macronectes giganteus; Marion Island; Phalacrocorax atriceps
• Online Access: http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajms/article/view/33156

The first midsummer survey of surface-nesting seabirds at Prince Edward Island was conducted during December 2001. It was also the first census for most species since the early 1980s. Despite concerns about the impacts of longline fishing mortality on various albatrosses and giant petrels, there was...