The legacy of celebrated Canadian author and bird conservation advocate Graeme Gibson will continue through a $1-million gift to Western University from his longtime partner, acclaimed author Margaret...

Seal Island saw a record 127 razorbill nests, while Eastern Egg Rock saw a record 213 puffin burrows.

They’re aiming to deploy 1,000 malaise traps across Canada to study insect biodiversity with the help of community organizations

Puffins, guillemots and razorbills are being washed up dead or dying on Europe’s Atlantic coast in what scientists call a ‘wreck’

We used integrated population models to analyze environmental drivers of population dynamics for Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) and Razorbills (Alca torda) nesting at the southern edge of thei...

For decades, ECCC research scientists have been integral to the work of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme.

Climate-driven ocean warming is profoundly reshaping marine ecosystems, with cascading effects on biodiversity and trophic interactions. For migrat...

Climate change is causing ocean warming, acidification and loss of sea ice. This, in turn, is leading to shifting biogeographic distribution and in some cases species extinction.

Diet diversity across northern hemisphere ecosystems affects seabird responses to climate change, with breeding productivity declining in the Arctic and North Atlantic but not in the Pacific from 1993 to 2019, based on 138 time series of breeding success and linear mixed effects models.

Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu

Each year in Newfoundland, Canada, fledgling Atlantic Puffins (“pufflings”; Fratercula arctica ) become stranded in coastal towns during their nocturnal first flights from breeding colonies on...

Biological invasions are one of the major drivers of biodiversity decline and have been shown to have far-reaching consequences for society and the economy. Preventing the introduction and spread of ....

Seabirds’ annual survival is influenced by numerous factors, but oceanic conditions are among the most significant. Indices used to monitor these conditions typically cycle over decades. Using the lon...

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We’re excited to share the publication of a new paper in Ecography, led by PhD candidate Sara Ryding (Deakin University, collaboration with Matt Symonds Lab), which explores how climate change may be reshaping the morphology of migratory shorebirds. Using an incredibly extensive dataset of nearly 19,000 juvenile birds across 11 species sampled over 43 years, Sara investigated whether warming temperatures are causing changes in relative wing length, a trait thought to play a role in thermoregulation.

This study presents the first systematic assessment of trends in white shark Carcharodon carcharias presence in Atlantic Canadian waters (ACWs) using 2 standardized acoustic monitoring...

On April 22, the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, a U.K. overseas territory, officially enacted a strengthened set of protections for its vast marine protected area (MPA). F...