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The Pacific Seabird Group has been holding its 40th Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. this week.

Abstracts of presented papers (both oral and poster) are available for reading on line. A list of those presentations that consider ACAP-listed or potential candidate species of albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters, along with their senior authors follows.

Short-tailed Albatross.  Photograph by Hiroshi Hasegawa

Senior authors and titles of PSG 2013 Portland abstracts:

Josh Adams: Conservation implications of Pink-footed Shearwater (Puffinus creatopus) movements and fishery interactions off South America assessed using multiple methods

Jessie Beck: Demographics of albatrosses caught as bycatch in Hawaiian (2010-2012) and Alaskan longline fisheries (2007, 2009-2011)

Alexander Brush: Use of a diving procellariiform, the Sooty Shearwater, to expand a marine plastic biodindicator [sic] network

Valentina Colodro: Engaging local communities to advance seabird conservation: case study of a threatened Chilean endemic [Pink-footed Shearwater Puffinus creatopus]

Valentina Colodro: Using stable isotopes to determine predation of endemic seabirds in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago, Chile [Pink-footed Shearwater Puffinus creatopus]

Tomohiro Deguchi: The restoration of a Short-tailed Albatross colony on Mukojima, Ogasawara Islands Group

Jane Dolliver: Sight and salvage: preparing observers for seabird duties at sea [Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus]

Shannon Fitzgerald: Estimates of seabird bycatch in Alaskan groundfish fisheries using the Alaska Region catch accounting system, 2007-2011 [Phoebastria albatrosses]

Adrian Gall: New neighbors: changes in the marine-bird community over the past 35 years [Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris]

Trevor Joyce: Model-based abundance estimates of the Hawaiian Petrel (Pterodroma sandwichensis) and Newell’s Shearwater (Puffinus newelli) based on data collected at sea, 1999-2011

Peter Leary: Reproductive success of Laysan and Black-footed Albatross at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge over eleven seasons

Matthew McKown: Passive acoustic monitoring of nocturnal seabird populations - computer-analyzed mean call rate correlates with abundance at Wedge-tailed Shearwater breeding colonies

Edward Melvin: Recent trends in albatross bycatch rates in Alaskan longline fisheries targeting groundfish (2007 to 2011) [Phoebastria albatrosses]

Bungo Nishizawa: Hotspots of seabird aggregations during summer in the western north Pacific [albatrosses and shearwaters]

Daisuke Ochi: Experimental evaluation of multiple bycatch mitigation measures on pelagic longline operation in western North Pacific

Amelia O’Connor: Distribution of subadult Short-tailed Albatross in the North Pacific

Caroline Poli: Activity patterns of Audubon’s Shearwaters breeding in the Bahamas

André Raine: Using remote cameras to monitor montane seabird burrows in Kaua’i [Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis & Newell’s Shearwater Puffinus newelli]

Mark Rauzon: Wake Atoll ecological responses 8 years after cat eradication [Christmas Shearwater Puffinus nativitatus]

Cotton Rockwood: Patterns of at-sea anthropogenic threats to seabirds in the North Pacific: a comparison of Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) and Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus)

Scott Shaffer: Effects of inter-annual variability in the transition zone chlorophyll front on the habitat use and reproductive success of Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses

Masaki Shirai: Active-specific metabolic rate and energy budget during foraging trip in Streaked Shearwater Calonectris leucomelas

Robert Suryan: Post-fledging survival, behavior, and migration of hand- vs. naturally-reared Short-tailed Albatrosses

Marc Travers: Quantifying seabird collisions with power lines [Newell’s Shearwater Puffinus newelli & Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis]

Stacy Vander Pol: The albatross about our neck: the state of the oceans revealed through the family Diomedeidae

Marie VanZandt: Foraging strategies and post breeding distribution of the Hawaiian Petrel (Pterodroma sandwichensis), from the island of Lāna’i

William Walker: Daytime occurrence of dead mesopelagic fish and squid at the sea surface and their importance as a previously unrecognized food resource for oceanic marine birds [Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes & Laysan P. immutabilis Albatrosses]

Yutaka Watanuki: Wintering area of Streaked Shearwaters and mercury in their tail-feathers: oceanic scale monitoring of pollutants

Takashi Yamamoto: Movement of Short-tailed Shearwaters with environmental gradient in the sub-Arctic Pacific and Arctic seas through summer to autumn

Lindsay Young: Causes and consequences of mate choice plasticity: is same-sex pairing in Laysan Albatross making the ‘best of a bad job’?

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 22 February 2013