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Volume 21, Issue 1January 2026

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Now more than ever: the need for collaborative applied science for bird conservation

Sarah W. Kendrick, Alaine F Camfield, Kenneth V. Rosenberg, John D. Alexander, Wendy E. Easton, Tom Will, Rebecca A. Keller, Arvind O Panjabi, Robert P. Ford

Special Feature Partners in Flight International Science Committee: Migratory Bird Conservation Tools and Applications

Mapping arctic goose nesting colonies over five decades as a metric of population change

Ray T. Alisauskas, Dana K. Kellett

Forecasting climate-resilient conservation futures for the White-bellied Heron (Ardea insignis) in Bhutan using coupled model intercomparison project phase 6 climate scenario

Pema Dendup, Ugyen Chophel, Jigme Wangchuk, Dorji Phuntsho, Pema Syldon, Thinley Dorji, Phub Dhendup, Pema Wangda, Chimi Namgyel, Monju Subba

Interspecific competition among Procellariids: implications for seabird management and colony creation projects

Andre F Raine, Scott Driskill, Michael McFarlin, Robert Brittingham V, Jennifer A. Rothe, Helen Raine

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Partners in Flight International Science Committee: Migratory Bird Conservation Tools and Applications

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Conservation of Boreal Birds

Jun 2020

Advancing Bird Population Monitoring with Acoustic Recording Technologies

Sep 2018

Quantifying Human-related Mortality of Birds in Canada

Sep 2013

Aerial Insectivores

Feb 2013

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Seabird Ecology

01/2026

Interspecific competition among Procellariids: implications for seabird management and colony creation projects

Andre F Raine, Scott Driskill, Michael McFarlin, Robert Brittingham V, Jennifer A. Rothe, Helen Raine

12/2025

Nest-site habitat partitioning by Arctic, Common, and Roseate terns

Nicholas Knutson, Ted C. D’Eon, Alix A. d’Entremont, Julie McKnight, Mark L. Mallory, Shawn R. Craik

06/2025

The efficacy of acoustic indices in detecting the post-migration return of Short-tailed Shearwaters (Ardenna tenuirostris) to their colonies

Harrison R. Talarico, Gregory J. Jordan, Eric J. Woehler, Rowena Hamer, Jennifer L. Lavers

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Now more than ever: the need for collaborative applied science for bird conservation

Sarah W. Kendrick, Alaine F Camfield, Kenneth V. Rosenberg, John D. Alexander, Wendy E. Easton, Tom Will, Rebecca A. Keller, Arvind O Panjabi, Robert P. Ford

Special Feature Partners in Flight International Science Committee: Migratory Bird Conservation Tools and Applications

Mapping arctic goose nesting colonies over five decades as a metric of population change

Ray T. Alisauskas, Dana K. Kellett

Forecasting climate-resilient conservation futures for the White-bellied Heron (Ardea insignis) in Bhutan using coupled model intercomparison project phase 6 climate scenario

Pema Dendup, Ugyen Chophel, Jigme Wangchuk, Dorji Phuntsho, Pema Syldon, Thinley Dorji, Phub Dhendup, Pema Wangda, Chimi Namgyel, Monju Subba

Interspecific competition among Procellariids: implications for seabird management and colony creation projects

Andre F Raine, Scott Driskill, Michael McFarlin, Robert Brittingham V, Jennifer A. Rothe, Helen Raine

Nest-site habitat partitioning by Arctic, Common, and Roseate terns

Nicholas Knutson, Ted C. D’Eon, Alix A. d’Entremont, Julie McKnight, Mark L. Mallory, Shawn R. Craik

Estimating regional trajectories and trends of seabirds from sparse and inconsistent colony counts: case studies from eastern Canada with Leach’s Storm-Petrel and Atlantic Puffin

David T. Iles, Sarah E. Gutowsky, Anna M. Calvert, Sabina I. Wilhelm, Jean-François Rail, April Hedd, Heather L. Major, Adam C. Smith, Gregory J. Robertson