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| | Conservation | | |  Seabird conservation concerns include: - bycatch (seabird/fisheries interactions),
- monitoring of seabird populations,
- seabird restoration following oil spills,
- establishment of seabird sanctuaries, and
- endangered species.
In some cases, removal of feral (non-native) predators is required, such as a project to remove rats, Rattus spp from small islands near Adak, Aleutian Islands, Alaska to restore seabird populations and another project to remove introduced arctic foxes, Alopex lagopus.
Population trends of seabirds differ greatly among species and sites so that long term ecological research is required. Researchers are relating seabird productivity and population trends to variations in climate, oceanography, and structure of the marine ecosystem. | | Photo title: Cormorant, Phalacrocorax coronatus (Namibia) | | Photo credit: FAO Fisheries | | |  | | Photo title: Seagulls at Waihiki Island, New Zealand | | Photo credit: Julia K Wells | | |  | | Photo title: Soofi gull, Larus hemprichi (Oman) | | Photo credit: FAO Fisheries | | | | |
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| How Seabirds Share Their Habitat
by ScienceDaily 13 January 2011 | |
| | When different species of seabirds share a habitat with limited sources of food, they must differ in their feeding habits. This specialisation is known by biologists as an "ecological niche." | |
Read more at http://www.sciencedaily. ... 32213.htm.
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