Behavioral response of Atlantic Puffins Fratercula arctica to marine heatwaves in the Gulf of Maine, USA: A webcam studyJulie Wallace, Keenan Yakola, Stephen W. Kress, & Donald E. Lyons
2024
Atlantic puffins thrive in cool environments in the North Atlantic. They prefer to eat small, fatty forage fish that they— and especially their small growing…
Long-term Multi-Species Demographic Studies Reveal Divergent Negative Impacts of Winter Storms on Seabird SurvivalKirsty Laurenson, Matt J. Wood, Tim R. Birkhead, Matthew D. K. Priestley, Richard B. Sherley, Annette L. Fayet, Tim Guilford, Ben J. Hatchwell, and Stephen C. Votier
2024
Adored for their “high cuteness factor,” Puffins are also remarkably tough sea creatures and thrive in some of the harshest marine environments on Earth. These…
Catastrophic and persistent loss of common murres after a marine heatwaveHeather M. Renner, John F. Piatt, Martin Renner, Brie A. Drummond, Jared S. Laufenberg, Julia K. Parrish
2024
This article reports on a catastrophic decline of Alaska’s Common Murre population following a powerful marine heatwave in the NE Pacific Ocean during 2014-2016. Some…
Navigating the night: effects of artificial light on the behaviour of Atlantic puffin fledglingsTaylor M. Brown, Sabina I. Wilhelm, Aaron D. Slepkov, Kaitlyn Baker,
Gabriela F. Mastromonaco, and Gary Burness
2024
Every year when it is time to fledge from their nests, baby puffins—called pufflings—leave their burrows at night and head for the sea, guided by…
