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2023 Regional Reports – new, interactive map and searchable format!
Welcome to the new format of PSG’s Regional Reports. Explore PSG member activities with an interactive map!
A brief account of the 2023 HPAI-H5N1 outbreak in the Galápagos Islands and impacts on local seabirds
This report outlines the developments over the past seven months since the initial detection of the virus, incorporating data from official sources, communications from naturalist guides on local forums, and interviews with local ornithologists.
Michael Philip Harris (1939-2023)
On December 17th, 2023, the world lost one of its great seabird ornithologists when Mike Harris died aged 84.
Dear Baby Heron
A creative writing piece by Lakea Lin.
Learned & Penniman (2024)
Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project Regional Report – Maui, Hawaiʻi Ornithological radar surveys on Maui, Hawaiʻi In 2020 the Hawaiʻi Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) provided a marine radar to the Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project (MNSRP). The marine radar was selected to closely match that used for seabird surveys on Maui in 2001…
Chinnici (2024)
Humboldt Redwood Company, LLC (HRC) continued the conservation activities for the Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) under the company’s Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP). Project leaders were Sal Chinnici and Mark Freitas of HRC. The HCP requires tracking of murrelet occupancy and numbers over time using both radar and audio-visual (AV) survey techniques. Surveys were continued in…
Moorhouse (2024)
Scott Moorhouse (High Arctic Gull Research Group) is continuing his studies of Iceland Gulls (Larus glaucoides thayeri), including completing additional work on the occurrence, distribution, abundance, habitat use, and behavior of wintering L. glaucoides thayeri in central California. Fieldwork was completed in March 2023 and a paper on the work was accepted for publication by…
Young et al. (2024)
Pacific Rim Conservation 2023 Annual Summary In 2023 Pacific Rim Conservation (PRC) continued with our long-term seabird monitoring and conservation programs across Hawaii and Mexico. We conducted monitoring of 11 seabird species across Kauai and Oahu to determine the outcomes of various conservation interventions and to research the demography of these populations. In 2023 this…
White et al. (2024b)
USGS WERC Seabird Studies Team: Southern California PSG Regional Report 2024 Josh Adams, Laney White, Jonathan Felis, and Alex Rinkert (USGS Western Ecological Research Center), in collaboration with Matthew McKown, Jeff Schlueter, and Abram Fleishman (Conservation Metrics Inc.), and with support from David Pereksta (BOEM) are working on manual, low-taxonomic identification of targets detected using…
