A bird that mates for life and flies over 6,000 miles for food, the albatross has seen profound population declines over the past several decades. It appears now as though a harbinger for its own ...

When different species of seabirds share a habitat with limited sources of food, they must differ in their feeding habits. This specialization is known by biologists as an “ecological niche”.

As many as nine out of 10 of the world's seabirds likely have pieces of plastic in their guts, a new study estimates. Previously, scientists figured about 29 percent of seabirds had swallowed plastic, ...

The population of the world’s seabirds has plummeted 70 percent in the past 60 years, a Canadian-Australian research team has found. The drop is equivalent to the disappearance of around 230 million ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. A black rope had rubbed ...

An unprecedented die-off has been declared in Alaska, where as many as four million murres are estimated to be missing from colonies across the state. According to a new study, it’s the worst single ...

Seabirds from 16 locations around the world have been found to consume plastic and have accumulated plastic’s chemical components in their bodies. Each year, 380 million tons of plastic are produced ...

A Great Shearwater (left) and Black-capped Petrel (right) are seen on a seabirding trip off the coast of North Carolina, where the Outer Banks jut far out into the ocean at the same time as the Gulf ...

This is an understandable strategy for birds that spend most of their time at sea where “there is literally nowhere to hide,” says Emily Shepard, a behavior ecologist at Swansea University in Wales.

MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- Right now, the SPCA Monterey County is acting like an emergency hospital for seabirds. Beth Brookhouser, VP of Marketing & Communications for SPCA Monterey County said ...

Razorbill tag data revealed that, at night, these seabirds spent a lot of their time idle on the sea surface. 'We saw this as an opportunity to (...) test if the birds might be drifting with the tidal ...

Seabirds mistakenly eat plastic debris in the ocean not just because it looks like food, but because it smells like it. When mealtime comes around, many species of ocean-faring birds, including ...