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Waders and fulmars. Photo © Erlend Lorentzen

New assessment of the mercury contamination and the potential health risk to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds

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

New method can give valuable insight into the life of underground-nesting seabirds
Kittiwakes and aucks on breeding ledges. Photo © Tycho Anker-Nilssen

Large study of the breeding phenology of seabirds across the North Atlantic

Do seabird populations adjust timing of breeding according to a shared environmental variable?
Resting puffin. Photo © Tycho Anker-Nilssen

Raising offspring accelerates senescence in the Atlantic puffin

Negative trends for populations with low productivity can be somewhat mitigated by adults living longer.
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Key-site monitoring in Norway 2021.

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Top-down control of a marine mesopredator: Increase in native white-tailed eagles accelerates the extinction of an endangered seabird population

Eyes on the future: buffering increased costs of incubation by abandoning offspring

Spatial variations in winter Hg contamination affect egg volume in an Arctic seabird, the great skua (Stercorarius skua)

Foraging range scales with colony size in high-latitude seabirds

Key-site monitoring in Norway 2021, including Svalbard and Jan Mayen

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