SEAPOP
About seabirds – for a richer ocean
October 25, 2021
- A huge amount of work over years, with concepts and information that has come out that would have been unthinkable just a short time ago, says inventor of the geolocator.
October 18, 2021
SEAPOP and SEATRACK have contributed significantly.
September 23, 2021
Seabirds adapted to a warmer climate replace the Arctic species, according to a new article in Ecology.
September 2, 2021
Results challenge current taxonomy.
August 23, 2021
Analyses of great cormorant diets reveal how much and which fish species and size Norwegian cormorants consume.
July 12, 2021
Recent surveys show that the population of ivory gulls in Svalbard is larger than previously assumed, but long-time monitoring of selected colonies reveals a negative population trend.
July 2, 2021
SEAPOP’s summary of the seabird monitoring in 2020 is a cause of growing concern for Norwegian seabird populations.
June 7, 2021
The ongoing decrease in seabird breeding success signals the need for management actions to protect the marine ecosystems and reduce the effect of climate change.
April 8, 2021
This study signals the need for fisheries management to account for ecosystem constraints when setting catch limits in periods of low forage fish biomass.
March 26, 2021
Reduced availability of key prey forces adult puffins to fly further from their colonies to find food. Meanwhile, their chicks starve at the nests.
March 1, 2021
Apologies for unexpected time offline while moving to a new server.
January 13, 2021
Tracking little auks outside the breeding season provides new knowledge about sources and pathways of mercury in nature.
December 3, 2020
More than a quarter of the individual auks in which mercury levels were measured outside the breeding season exceeded the toxicity threshold.
November 19, 2020
Why is their chick production superior to that of kittiwakes breeding on land?
November 3, 2020
A presentation of initiatives to protect all kittiwake populations in the Arctic.
September 18, 2020
Foraging shags and commercial kelp harvesters very often utilize the same marine areas.
September 3, 2020
A study reveals comprehensive seabird bycatch in lumpsucker gillnets, but also large differences between Denmark, Iceland and Norway in the number of birds caught per fishing trip.
June 26, 2020
Yet another alarming year for Norwegian seabirds: nearly half of the populations declined since 2018, and one third produced poorly.
February 27, 2020
Little auks crossing the ice-free Arctic will reduce migration costs by half compared to following their current migration paths across the North Atlantic.
February 13, 2020
Seabirds that are already under pressure because of climatic change become more vulnerable when exposed to additional man-made incidents leading to acute population declines.
January 17, 2020
The disturbance effect of recreational boat driving may be considerable for moulting eiders.
January 6, 2020
December 25, 2019
Puffins change their diet while razorbills seek out new foraging areas.
December 11, 2019
Time spent in the colony prior to egg-laying is increasing for both common and Brünnich’s guillemots.
November 29, 2019
More specialized foraging behaviour in bold black-legged kittiwakes.
November 21, 2019
Large amounts of plastic are adrift in the sea. Most of it is microplastic, some of which often ends up in seabird stomachs. A group of researchers met in Tromsø recently to discuss how to best monitor the amounts of plastic in birds. According to their report from the workshop, samples of regurgitation and faeces will be of interest if such monitoring were to be implemented.
November 18, 2019
Gathered 35 participants from about 30 different institutions around the North Atlantic.
November 6, 2019
An increase in extreme weather events is probably bad news for common eiders.
October 23, 2019
Some arctic seabirds start their breeding season earlier now than they did 35 years ago.
September 30, 2019
Strong relations between breeding success, foraging behaviour and choice of prey among European shags.
September 10, 2019
According to a study from Hornøya, the effect varies among species.
September 5, 2019
New dates in March 2020.
July 31, 2019
Synchronous hatching in seabird colonies increases the defensive power against specialized predators.
July 19, 2019
- With young scientists like Benjamin on the team, the future looks bright for seabird research.
July 2, 2019
Presenting detailed estimates of the most important monitoring parameters from 14 locations.
May 10, 2019
A new study reveals that between 4 000 and 8 000 seabirds probably drown each year in connection with the coastal gillnet-fisheries in Norway. Researchers suggest scaring the birds as a possible measure for reducing the number of deaths.
March 15, 2019
SEATRACK plans to include new colonies and to deploy GLS-loggers on juvenile birds to deliver data of even higher accuracy and quality.
February 25, 2019
Loggerdata from 2018 have been added to the SEATRACK web app.
February 6, 2019
An example of how data from geolocators can be used even when light conditions are too poor to calculate positions.
January 24, 2019
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January 7, 2019
Presents critical information for improving predictions of the effects of extreme weather events on the species.
December 4, 2018
New research reveals that diet specialization in Arctic seabirds is more important for exposure to contaminants than wintering area or long-range transport.
October 10, 2018
Bad weather is bad news, also for the red-listed kittiwake. New research reveals that wind conditions combined with the availability of different prey species are determinants of chick production in this seabird.
September 26, 2018
Higher ocean temperatures in the north are not good for everyone. For common eiders, the warming causes decreasing populations.
July 23, 2018
Light loggers used in combination with stable isotopes help us determine when and where moulting takes place.
July 2, 2018
A new NINA report gives recommendation on how seabird data should best be used in impact and environmental risk assessments.
June 17, 2018
A new study gives a visual insight into the little auks foraging behaviour.
May 30, 2018
This year’s report from SEAPOP’s key-sites gives an overview of the 2017 breeding season.
May 2, 2018
Hundreds of dead puffins were found beached in southwest Norway in February-March 2016. This study revealed significant consequences for the populations involved.
April 17, 2018
Have seabirds shifted their breeding season in response to climate change?
April 6, 2018
Tracking great skua by using GPS-loggers gives new insight in different foraging strategies.
March 20, 2018
Higher abundance of sub-arctic and Atlantic species in kittiwakes’ diet supporting the hypothesis of “Atlantification” of the Arctic.
March 6, 2018
Where do Northeast Atlantic seabird populations overwinter? Save the date: 19.mars.
February 28, 2018
Separate breeding periods may have developed genetically different species over time. The phenomenon is called ‘allochrony’.
February 15, 2018
The frequency of occurrence of 1-yr old saithe in shag diet gives the scientist an opportunity to predict future levels of recruitment of young saithe into the adult population.
January 30, 2018
Through its ability to adapt, the kittiwake may be robust to changes in the marine environment, but sufficient foraging grounds near the colonies are a necessity.
January 8, 2018
If the temperature in the Arctic continues to rise, the little auk’s prey species will disappear and its existence will be threatened. This is despite the flexible foraging strategy of this little giant.
December 19, 2017
Northward dispersion is associated with climate change.
December 1, 2017
Long migration routes and wintering far north are evident drawbacks.
November 22, 2017
Crucial prey species for black-legged kittiwakes are driven northwards as sea temperatures rise.
