Articles Tagged with “seabirds”

7 Articles found tagged with “seabirds”.

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  Native Tree Increase Following Rat Removal

  The eradication of invasive rats on the remote Pacific island Palmyra Atoll has led to positive benefits for native trees and the many other species who live in this habitat.

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  Population Decline of Antarctic Seabird

  Since 2005, the population of Giant Petrels has halved from over 5,800 nesting birds to around 2,600 in the South Orkney Islands.

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  How Climate Change Affects Seabirds

  This bird is an endangered species in Norway, with numbers plummeting from around 160,000 pairs in the 1960s to just 15,000 breeding pairs today.

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  Triple Threat to Seabirds

  Extreme weather, predation and human disturbance are all threats to sea birds up and down the UK coastline.

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  Marbled Murrelet Defended in Court

  Despite being listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1992, conservation efforts haven’t come close to increasing their population, and haven’t even been able to halt their decline.

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  Saving Marine Wildlife

  It comes down to a chain reaction: as the sea has warmed, plankton communities have shifted north, radically changing the species composition of the North Sea.

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  Seabird Spectacular

  Look out to our coasts and coastal waters, and it’s there you’ll find our greatest avian riches.