Home News Great Black-backed Gull over stormy sea. Photo © Tycho Anker-Nilssen Worrying global trend for the Great Black-backed Gull August 7, 2023 Significant declines in certain areas. Little auk with a full gular pouch. Photo © Sébastien Descamps Increased inflow of Atlantic waters into the Arctic may threaten the little auk June 26, 2023 A decreasing proportion of Arctic water leads to lower prey quality. Waders and fulmars. Photo © Erlend Lorentzen New assessment of the mercury contamination and the potential health risk to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds May 23, 2023 Some seabirds are severely threatened by mercury exposure. Two little auks in a colony on Spitsbergen. Photo © Sébastien Descamps How to examine the breeding behaviour of cavity-nesting seabirds April 27, 2023 New method can give valuable insight into the life of underground-nesting seabirds More news Maps and dataInsight into distribution- and time series data SEATRACK Migration patterns outside the breeding season GPS trackingSeabird habitat use during the breeding season SEAPOP Short Report Key-site monitoring in Norway 2021. Latest publications Use of geolocators for investigating breeding ecology of a rock crevice-nesting seabird: Method validation and impact assessment Metapopulation regulation acts at multiple spatial scales: Insight from a century of seabird colony census data Raising offspring increases ageing: Differences in senescence among three populations of a long-lived seabird, the Atlantic puffin Top-down control of a marine mesopredator: Increase in native white-tailed eagles accelerates the extinction of an endangered seabird population Global population and conservation status of the Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus More Publications