Fishery-seabird conflict
Interview with Shiway Wang
Shiway is an expert in taking a small fat sample from live, wild seabirds and using this fat sample to find out what the bird has been [...]
Tracking Seabirds Using Geolocation
Tracking Seabirds using Geolocation Data loggers; an interview with Rachael Orben, PhD student at University of California, Santa Cruz. Seabirds spend the majority of their lives at [...]
Carmen and William
Carmen Philemonoff and William Lekanof are the two oldest students at the St. George Island school.
Local Lore
Students at St. Paul recently met with Aleut Community of St. Paul Island (Tribal) Education and Ecosystem Conservation folks to discuss the cultural, historic, and current uses [...]
Bird Cams
This month, we're learning about methods used to research seabirds. Video recorders are getting small and light enough to attach to some of the larger seabirds. Bird [...]
Outer space
The first ever penguin census from space has shown there may be twice as many Emperor Penguins living in the Antarctic than previously thoughtThe study, led by British [...]
Crested Auklet
The Crested Auklet (Aethia cristatella) nests in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk. Like the other auklets, Crested Auklets lay their single egg in a [...]
Flying Fish
Parents of many species of seabird carry back whole prey items to feed their chick at the colony. Researchers can use binoculars, telescopes, or take photos of [...]
GPS loggers
Interview with DR. Rosana Paredes What is your job? Research biologist Why do people use GPS loggers to study seabirds? GPS loggers can tell us about the [...]
Plotting a GPS track
Dr. Rosana Paredes has been using GPS loggers to find out where thick-billed murres and black-legged kittiwakes breeding on the Pribilof Islands travel to at sea. Read [...]
Greek Mythology
Seabirds even play a role in Greek Mythology.... In Greek mythology, Daedalus made wings for himself and his young son Icarus to escape from where they were [...]
Seabird Guano Fertilizer!
The word "guano" originates from the South American Andes, and means "the droppings of sea birds" Seabird guano is a prized fertilizer due to its high phosphorus [...]