Distribution of marine birds on Georges Bank and adjacent waters. Technical progress report, 1 January--31 August 1978

• Main Author: Powers, K.D.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Manomet Bird Observatory, MA (USA) 1978
• Subjects: Vertebrates 520100* > Environment; Aquatic > Basic Studies > (-1989); Atlantic Ocean; Species Diversity; 520500 > Environment; Aquatic > Site Resource & Use Studies > (-1989); Ecosystems; Data; Surface Waters; Continental Shelf; Animals; 59 Basic Biological Sciences; Continental Margin; Aquatic Ecosystems; Bering Sea; Seas; Data Compilation; Numerical Data; Birds; Population Dynamics; Management; Information; Data Base Management; Arctic Ocean; 54 Environmental Sciences; Pacific Ocean; 550100 > Behavioral Biology; Arctic; Pacific; Chukchi; North Atlantic; Zooplankton
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2172/6573328; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1193459/

The work accomplished during the period covered in this technical progress report demonstrates the importance, interest, and necessity of a distribution study of marine birds in the Georges Bank area on a national and international scale. Cooperation was extended by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Coast Guard, and by the Canadian Wildlife Service, Halifax, N.S., AltantNIRO, Kaliningrad, USSR, and Federal Republic of Germany. Two sampling methods, fixed-area and total bird counts, were effectively employed, which allow comparable data bases with marine bird distribution information being collected in the North Pacific, Bering and Chukchi Seas (Outer Continental Shelf Energy Assessment Program), and in the North Atlantic and Canadian Arctic (CWS and The Seabird Group). A marine bird data retrieval bank is being developed for MBO seabird data at the USFWS Migratory Bird and Habitat Research Laboratory. A food habits bibliography and prey item/bird species summary table for marine birds in the western North Atlantic has been prepared from existing literature. Unpublished NMFS data on zooplankton/ichthyoplankton, and ground fish is being made available for possible correlations in distribution of selected prey items with bird species.