As you might’ve guessed – we like our seabirds here. Check out all the ways we celebrate seabirds at the Center for Ecosystem Sentinels:
Student YouTube Videos
We bring to you a new video: Taken from the Skies, by Samanth-Lynn Martinez. This video does not mince words about the damage we are doing to our seabird populations. Share this call to action with your friends:
Putting side the many videos of penguins we have on our channel, we also have:
🦅 From gannets to shearwaters, earn about the seabirds in New Zealand and the Galápagos Islands!
Student: Timothy Kenney
Quarter: Spring 2018
🪶 Why is the Flightless Cormorant…well, flightless? Learn how the Flightless Cormorant’s anatomy differs from other Cormorants.
Student: Naomi Graham
Quarter: Spring 2019
💙 Dive into the life of the Blue-Footed Booby
Student: Carly McCray
Quarter: Spring 2018
Recent Research
Here’s a look at some of our more recent research about seabirds, including petrals, auklets, and (of course) penguins:
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Foot darkening with age in Spheniscus penguins: applications and functions
From the abstract: “We found that Spheniscus penguins have pale…
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Increasing environmental variability inhibits evolutionary rescue in a long-lived vertebrate
“Using a multidecadal dataset on Magellanic penguins, we show that…
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A fearful scourge to the penguin colonies: Southern giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus) predation on living Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) may be more common than assumed
Authors: Dr. Eric Wagner, Dr. Ginger Rebstock and Dr. P…
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Sex-specific migratory behavior in a marine predator results in higher risks to females
Metadata Authors: Dr. Ginger Rebstock and Dr. P Dee BoersmaJournal:…
How Can You Help?
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