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Seabirds and orca near a fishing vessel. Photo © Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research

Seabirds as indicators of sustainable fisheries management

A new study suggests that current capelin fisheries management in the Barents Sea has limited negative effects on adult seabird survival.
Atlantic puffin about to land. Photo © Sébastien Descamps

Man-made toxins found in Atlantic puffins on Spitsbergen

A study compares levels of pollutants in the blood of the world’s northernmost population of Atlantic puffins with more southern puffin populations and other species.
A fieldworker checks the contents of a black-legged kittiwake’s nest. A fieldworker checks the contents of a black-legged kittiwake nest in Grumantbyen on Svalbard using a mirror on a stick. Photo © Sébastien Descamps

Environmental stress affects all kittiwakes – but not to the same degree

Birds – like humans – react differently to different situations. Can personality influence how they cope with physiological stress?
Atlantic puffin on the edge of a cliff. Photo © Hallvard Strøm

Genetic traces reveal how the Atlantic puffin has adapted to life in the north

By analysing multiple types of genetic variation, researchers gained a more nuanced understanding of how the puffin has evolved in different marine regions.
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Seabird survival as indicator of sustainable capelin fishery management

Environmentally induced stress affects fitness of bold and shy alike: A long-term study of personality and feather corticosterone in Arctic-breeding kittiwakes

An individual-based model to quantify the non-breeding season impact of wind farms on seabirds

Divergent migratory strategies of black guillemots from two colonies in the Norwegian Sea

A novel non-permanent attachment method for bird-borne tracking devices using 3D-printed clamps

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