Seabird-fishery interactions revealed by bird-borne GPS and camera loggers

Coupling bird-borne radar detectors and AIS data to assess seabird-fisheries interactions

Identifying seabird interactions with fisheries from GPS tracks: Automatic classification validated using bird-borne video recordings

Change with age in the attraction and attendance to vessels of wandering albatrosses: conservation implications

Understanding the spatio-temporal seabird population responses to climate change.

Age-dependent survival of Herring Gulls across 14 contrasting colonies

The role of multi-colony studies in understanding seabird demography

Spatial patterns of multi-colony synchrony in the breeding success of black-legged kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla in the UK

The impact of demographic and environmental drivers on the Atlantic puffin populations: a multi-colony perspective

Spatio-temporal variation in chick growth and breeding success in the grey-faced petrel Pterodroma gouldi

Speciation and ecological divergence in three closely related shearwater taxa: insights from migratory connectivity and non-breeding habitat

Fine scale seabird foraging behaviour in relation to fisheries

The importance of multi-colony and multi-species studies for seabird conservation

Assessing millennial-scale changes in seabird colony size using paleoenvironmental techniques: Case studies of Leach's Storm-Petrels in Eastern North America

Reduced foraging effort at the expanding range margin could facilitate poleward shift in a colonial seabird, the Northern gannet Morus bassanus

Diffuse patterns of at-sea movements by tropical seabirds

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**Session Chair: **Henri Weimerskirch 
**Session Description:** Fisheries are operating worldwide and are attracting many seabird species that feed on offal and baits. But fisheries can induce high mortality rates to attending seabirds because of by-catch, collision or entanglement with gears. For these reasons there is an increasing interest in the study of seabird-fisheries interactions. However there is still much to understand about the factors affecting the fine scale foraging behavior in relation to the presence of boats, especially fishing vessels, and this becomes possible with the miniaturization and development of new loggers. Through a series of empirical studies we will examine the fine scale foraging behavior of seabirds in relation to the presence of vessels obtained by conventional positioning systems such as AIS, VMS and with new bio-logging systems allowing the detection of vessels. The critical questions addressed concern the detection distances, distinction between co occurrence and attendance, the differences between seabird families in the attraction and attendance patterns, the influence of local oceanic conditions on attendance patterns and how attraction to fishing vessels build up over the lifespan of seabirds.

Symposium 2 - Fine scale seabird foraging behavior in relation to fisheries I

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**Sponsored by:** Wildlife Acoustics 
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**Session Chairs: **Francis Daunt, Sue Lewis 
**Session Description:** Research on seabird ecology has demonstrated remarkable variation among species and populations due to differences in intrinsic processes and environmental conditions. As a result, it has been challenging to unravel key ecological processes that underpin the relationship between seabirds and their environment, which has hampered our ability to make accurate forecasts of future population change. A powerful way of identifying key ecological processes is to undertake studies at multiple colonies or populations. Over the last decade, there has been a marked increase in this approach in a range of fields including population and foraging dynamics, including the first formal meta-analyses, providing robust insights into fundamental relationships. This symposium will showcase the latest research in this fast moving and critically important field.

Symposium 3 - Unravelling fundamental processes in seabird ecology: The role of multi-colony studies I

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**Session Chairs: **Francis Daunt, Sue Lewis 
**Session Description:** Research on seabird ecology has demonstrated remarkable variation among species and populations due to differences in intrinsic processes and environmental conditions. As a result, it has been challenging to unravel key ecological processes that underpin the relationship between seabirds and their environment, which has hampered our ability to make accurate forecasts of future population change. A powerful way of identifying key ecological processes is to undertake studies at multiple colonies or populations. Over the last decade, there has been a marked increase in this approach in a range of fields including population and foraging dynamics, including the first formal meta-analyses, providing robust insights into fundamental relationships. This symposium will showcase the latest research in this fast moving and critically important field.

Symposium 3 - Unravelling fundamental processes in seabird ecology: The role of multi-colony studies II

Veterinary Medicine and Science