16th International Seabird Group Conference 2024
University of Coimbra
Coimbra 2-6 September 2024
Conference Abstracts and Program 
Where permission has been granted, each presentation listed includes a link to a recording on the Seabird Group YouTube channel. We acknowledge huge gratitude to the conference organisers and Moove staff for facilitating these recordings.
WELCOME ADDRESS
The wanderings of Cory’s Shearwaters nesting on the Selvagens Islands.Paulo Catry
ISPA / MARE University of Lisbon
PLENARY I
Optimising movement decisions in a changing environment: what can we learn from seabirds?Samantha Patrick
University of Liverpool, UK
SESSION: MOVEMENT ECOLOGY
Modelling year-round energy need of North Atlantic seabirds.
Caitlin K. Frankish*; Hallvard Strøm; Tycho Anker-Nilssen; Maria I. Bogdanova; Mark Bolton; Oskar Bjørnstad; Vegard S. Brøthen; Lila Buckingham; Andrew Call; Olivier Chastel; Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard; Kendrew Colhoun; Jóhannis Danielsen; Francis Daunt; Nina Dehnhard; Sébastien Descamps; Kyle Elliott; Alexey Ezhov; Per Fauchald; Annette L. Fayet; Jérôme Fort; Morten Frederiksen; Stefan Garthe; Maria Gavrilo; Grant Gilchrist; David Grémillet; Gunnar T. Hallgrímsson; Erpur S. Hansen; Mike P. Harris; April Hedd; Morten Helberg; Mark Jessopp; Yuri Krasnov; Aili L. Labansen; Raphaël A. Lavoie; Jannie Linnebjerg;Svein-Håkon Lorentsen; Ulrik Løtberg; Yann Kolbeinsson; Mark L. Mallory; Ivan Mizin; Børge Moe; William A. Montevecchi; Anders Mosbech; Svenja Neumann; Mark A. Newall; Stephen Newton; Bergur Olsen; Tone Reiertsen; Shiants Seabird Research Group; Robert L. Swann; Geir H. Systad; Arnaud Tarroux; Paul Thompson; Thorkell L. Thórarinsson; Robin Ward; Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas; Sarah Wanless; Susanne Ökesson; Benjamin Merkel
*School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Predicting foraging trips of the world’s seabirds.

Quentin Queiros*, Astrid A. Carlsen, Jonas Hentati-Sundberg
*Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Variable wind selectivity in shearwaters implies knowledge of the foraging landscape.
Stephanie Harris, Charles Bishop, Paul Fernandes, Tim Guilford, Patrick Lewin, Oliver Padget, Pete Robins, Will Schneider, James Waggitt, Sophie Wilmes, Line Cordes
*University of Bangor, UK
Rethinking the role of diffuse competition in seabird distributions.

Oliver Padget*, Tim Guilford
*University of Liverpool, UK
Responsibility for the conservation of Black-Legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla in the North Atlantic.

Vance Mak*, Richard B. Sherley, Alice M. Travail, Simon P. Neill, Sion Roberts, Stuart Bearhop, Cat Horswill
*University of Exeter, UK
Simulation through deep learning of seabird’s trajectories for the evaluation of offshore windfarms’ impact.
Sophie Benboudjema*, Géraldine Nogaro, Nastassia Urien, Thierry Jouhanique, Amédée Roy, David Grémillet, Pascal Provost, Steven Votier, Sophie Lanco
*French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, France
Migration and wintering locations of Sandwich Terns: large-scale northbound pre-migration dispersal and unexpected wintering sites.

Ruben Fijn*, Rob van Bemmelen, Wouter Courtens, Judy Shamoun-Baranes
*Waardenburg Ecology, Netherlands
On-ice navigation of homing breeding emperor penguins.
Aymeric Houstin, Téo Barracho*, Céline Le Bohec, Alexander Winterl, Sebastian Richter, Ben Fabry, Daniel P. Zitterbart
*Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
Incorporating dive attributes within state-space modelling of seabird behaviour at-sea.
Daniel J. Johnston*, Gary D. Clewley, Nina O'Hanlon, Jacob G. Davies, Sophie Bennett, Chris B. Thaxter, Samuel Langlois Lopez, Ewan Weston, Ros Green, Katherine A. Booth Jones, Niall H.K. Burton, Aonghais S.C.P Cook, Elizabeth M. Humphreys
*BTO, UK
Feral pigeons as a new threat to seabirds.

Airam Rodríguez*, Beneharo Rodríguez, Felipe Siverio, Juan M. Martínez, Enrique Sacramento, Yarci Acosta
*Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM - CSIC), Spain
Ecology of Black-legged Kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla on an offshore oil and gas platform in the Irish Sea.

Debs Allbrook*
*University of Exeter, UK
Repeatability of non-breeding strategies in Northern European Herring Gulls Larus argentatus.

Vegard Sandøy Bråthen*, Manuel Ballesteros, Arild Breistøl, Aleksander Cherenkov, Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard, Nina Dehnhard, Kjell Einar Erikstad, Sindri Gíslason, Gunnar Thor Hallgrimsson, Morten Helberg, Hálfdán Helgason, Magdalene Langset, Svein-Håkon Lorentsen, Sunna Björk Ragnarsdóttir, Tone Kristin Reiertsen, Vladimir Semashko, Hallvard Strøm, Geir Helge Rødli Systad, Grigori Tertitski
*NINA - Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway
SESSION: CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTREME EVENTS
Assessing the impact of climatic extreme events on bird mortality.Maite Louzao*, Isabel García-Barón, Javier Franco, Jose Miguel Escribano, Manena Fayos, Daniel Fernández, Aitor Lekuona, Céline Maury, Álvaro Oleaga, Amaia Astarloa, Garnier Rolland, Andrea Del Campo, Almudena Fontán
*AZTI, Spain
The importance of changing Antarctic sea-ice habitats for albatrosses and petrels.

Ewan Wakefield*, Erin L. McClymont, Sébastien Descamps, Ana P.B. Carneiro, John P. Croxall, Jacob González-Solís, Hanna M.V. Granroth-Wilding, W. James Grecian, Eleanor M. Honan, Lesley Thorne, Victoria Warwick-Evans, Andrew G. Wood, Jose C. Xavier, Richard A. Phillips
*University of Deakin, UK
Long term multi-species demographic studies reveal divergent negative impacts of Winter storms on seabird survival.

Kirsty Laurenson*, Matt Wood, Tim Birkhead, Matthew Priestley, Richard B. Sherley, Annette Fayet, Tim Guilford, Ben Hatchwell & Stephen Votier
*University of Heriot-Watt, UK
Behavioural responses of breeding Manx Shearwaters during North Atlantic marine heatwave.

Sarah Bond*, Ollie Padget, Katrina Siddiqi-Davies, Lewis Fisher-Reeves, Patrick Lewin & Tim Guilford
*University of Oxford, UK
Temporal resolution matters: using oceanographic variables to explain seabird breeding success and chick diet.
Ella-Sophia Benninghaus*, Neda Trifonova, Lars Boehme, Dafne Eerkes-Medrano, W. James Grecian, Michael P. Harris, Kerstin Kober, Mark A. Newell, Lucy Quinn, Helen Wade, Sarah Wanless, Francis Daunt & Beth Scott
*University of Aberdeen, UK
Snowfall-induced catastrophic breeding failure increasingly frequent in a warming Antarctic Peninsula: Subcontinental analysis of a decade of Breeding Success for three penguin species.

Ignacio Juarez Martinez*, Claire Flynn, Alex Kacelnik & Tom Hart
*University of Oxford, UK
SESSION: CENSUS, MONITORING AND DEMOGRAPHY
Global distribution, threats and population trends of the critically endangered Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus.
Andrés de la Cruz*, Jorge Pereira, Gonzalo M. Arroyo, Jaime Ramos, Hany Alonso, José Manuel Arcos, Fernando Ramos, Jorge Tornero, Camilo Saavedra, José Antonio Vázquez, Isabel García-Barón, Amaia Astarloa, Maite Louzao, Sophie Laran, Ghislain Dorémus, James Waggit & Vitor H. Paiva
*University of Cádiz, Spain
Dependability of seabird censusing; can we count on our counts?
Emma Murphy*, David T. Tierney, Alyn Walsh, Andrew Power & Mark Jessopp
*University College Cork, Ireland
Improved passive acoustic monitoring tools reveal environmental influences on breeding phenology in Short-Tailed Shearwaters.

Nicolas de Almeida E Silva*, Paco Bustamante & John P.Y. Arnould
*University of Deakin, Australia
Does Atlantic Puffin age structure vary with population trajectory? A groovy citizen science project.
Sarah Kunzig* & Matt Wood
*University of Gloucestershire, UK
SESSION: RENEWABLE ENERGY
Estimating the quantity and spatial distribution of seabird prey offtake for marine impact assessments.Oliver Leedham*, Adam Butler, Charlotte Regan, Maria I. Bogdanova, Francis Daunt & Kate R. Searle
*Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK
Assessing the effects of offshore windfarms on marine bird survival and body condition.
Eleni Melis*, Daniel Benden, Susanne van Donk, Chun Chen, Martin Poot, Vincent Hin, Tobias van Kooten & Floor Soudijn
*Wageningen University, Netherlands
Seabird sensitivity maps for guiding maritime spatial planning in the German North Sea.

Volker Dierschke*, Kai Borkenhagen, Leonie Enners, Stefan Garthe, Moritz Mercker, Verena Peschko, Henriette Schwemmer & Nele Markones
*DDA - Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten, Germany
An individual-based model to quantify the non-breeding season impact of wind farms on seabirds.

Lila Buckingham*, Elizabeth A. Masden, K. Layton-Matthews, Maria I. Bogdanova, Vegard Sandøy Bråthen, Emma Jane Critchley, Francis Daunt, Per Fauchald, Michael H. Harris, Mark A. Newell, Kate R. Searle, Arnaud Tarroux, Sarah Wanless & Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard
*NINA - Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway
Seabirds, old and emerging threats: Is there room for compensation of potential impacts of offshore windfarms in a migratory seabird species?

Fraser Carter*, Ana Almeida*, Flávia Carvalho, Nuno Oliveira & Joana Andrade
*SPEA - Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds, Portugal
Developing accurate seabird density maps to assess cumulative effects of offshore windfarms.
Susanne van Donk*, Rob van Bemmelen, Chun Chen, Eleni Melis & Ingrid Tulp
*Wageningen Marine Research, Netherlands
PLENARY 2
Moving from examining conservation issues separately to considering cumulative effects; a case study of bringing it all together when assessing the threats to Northern Fulmars in the Canadian Arctic.Jennifer Provencher*
*Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada
SESSION: POLLUTION, TOXICOLOGY AND DISEASES
Assessing the impact of trace element contamination in the physiological condition and health of coastal and oceanic seabirds breeding along the Portuguese coastline.
Ivo D. Santos*, Vitor H. Paiva, Ana C. Norte, Carine Churlaud, Filipe R. Ceia, Joana P. Faria, Jorge M. Pereira, Lara R. Cerveira, Maria I. Laranjeiro, Sara N. Veríssimo, Jaime A. Ramos & Paco Bustamant
*University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Hg and PFAS contamination in seabirds: a multispecies and multisite study in metropolitan France.

Prescillia Lemesle*, Alice Carravieri, Gauthier Poiriez, William Jouanneau, Manrico Sebastiano, Ignacio Martinez-Alvarez, Frédéric Angelier, Christophe Barbraud, Romain Batard, Coraline Bichet, Aurélie Blanck, Hélène Budzinski, Karine Delord, Armel Deniau, Gilles Faggio, Jérôme Fort, Fabrice Gallien, Pierre Labadie, Gilles Le Guillou, Carole Leray, Karen D. McCoy, Samuel Peroteau, Pascal Provost, Marie- Catherine Santoni, Olivier Scher, Alain Ward, Olivier Chastel & Paco Bustamante
*University of La Rochelle, France
Plastic ingestion, accumulated heavy metals, and health metrics in four gull species feeding at an urban landfill in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Kerry Schutten*, André Morrill, Akshaya Chandreshaker, Brian Stevens, E. Jane Parmley, Joshua Cunningham, Greg Robertson, Mark Mallory, Claire Jardine & Jennifer F. Provencher
*Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Canada
Infectious disease ecology of seabirds: tales of gannets, skuas, albatrosses and penguins.

Thierry Boulinier*, Mathilde Lejeune, Augustin Clessin, Tristan Bralet, Amandine Gamble, Maëlle Connan, Paulo Carty, Teresa Militao, Pascal Provost, David Gremillet, Hubert Gantelet & Jérémy Tornos
*University of Montpellier, France
More than meets the eye: a detailed eco-epidemiological investigation of highly pathogenic avian influenza on a Subantarctic archipelago sheds light on transmission dynamics.

Julia Emerit, Augustin Clessin, Mathilde Lejeune, Amanda Kuepfer, Luca Nelli, Léo Streith, Paulo Catry, Thierry Boulinier, Zoe Fowler & Amandine Gamble*
*University of Cornell, USA.
SESSION: FORAGING AND FEEDING ECOLOGY
Predicting foraging areas of European Storm-Petrels: conservation implications in the Western Mediterranean.
Sofia B. Roda*, Andreu R. Vallespir, Andrea Santangeli, Giacomo Tavecchia, Alfonso Sola, Santi Catxot, Daniel Tarry, Gotzon Basterretxea, Simon Ruiz, Ignacio Catalán & Ana Sanz-Aguilar
*IMEDEA, Spain
How does foraging in two different environments influences the fatty acid profile of two close-related shearwater species?

Maria I. Laranjeiro*, Tiago Simões, Ivo dos Santos, Jaime A. Ramos, Jorge M. Pereira José M. Reyes-González, Marco F. L. Lemos, Vítor H. Paiva, Sara C. Novais, Joan Navarro & Filipe R. Ceia
*University of Coimbra, Portugal
Overnight foraging trips in a diurnal seabird, the Australasian Gannet Morus serrator.

Aurore Counilh*, Luc Lens & John P. Y. Arnould
*University of Deakin, Australia
What’s for dinner? Using DNA metabarcoding to investigate the diet of Manx Shearwater chicks and adults.

Lauren Evans*, Amy Ellison, Kristen Crandell, Stephanie Harris, Peter Robins & Line Cords
*University of Bangor, UK
Stalking Terns: Spatial and trophic ecology of an estuarine species and the effect of human disturbance.

Lara R. Cerveira*, Sara N. Veríssimo, Jorge M. Pereira, Jaime A. Ramos & Vitor H. Paiva
* University of Coimbra, Portugal
To dive or not to dive: flight-cost versus foraging strategy in the Manx Shearwater and the Atlantic Puffin.

Astrid Dedieu*, Jamie Darby, Manon Clairbaux, Sam L. Cox & Mark Jessopp
*University College Cork, Ireland
Fine-scale foraging behaviour of European Shags in kelp forests.

Nina Dehnhard* & Svein-Håkon Lorentsen
*NINA - Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway
Fine-scale movement data of the Bermuda Petrel highlights surface foraging and greater nocturnal flight activity.

Paolo Becciu, Allison Patterson, Carina Gjerdrum, Jeremy Madeiros & Letizia Campioni*
*Ornis Italica, Italy
The importance of mesopelagics in the diet of pelagic seabirds in the Atlantic Ocean.

Mónica C. Silva*, Paulo Catry, José P. Granadeiro, Vera L. Nunes, Ewan Wakefield, Silke Waap, Jéssica Ribeiro, Letizia Campioni & Maria P. Dias
*University of Lisboa, Portugal
Pelagic seabird chases cyclones to improve foraging efficiency.

Francesco Ventura*, Neele Sander, Paulo Catry, Ewan Wakefield, Federico De Pascalis, Philip L. Richardson, José P. Granadeiro, Mónica C. Silva & Caroline C. Ummenhofer
*Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
Population size and foraging movements of penguins at the world's largest colony.

Norman Ratcliffe*, Klemens Putz, Gemma Clucas, John Dickens, Andy Lowther & Tom Hart
*British Antarctic Survey, UK
Bird-borne cameras reveal gannet diet and social foraging.
Evelyn Alexander*, Robin Freeman & Stephen Votier
*University of Heriot-Watt, UK
SESSION: POLLUTION, TOXICOLOGY AND DISEASES
Biochemical and molecular biomarkers in Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus and associations to marine pollution.
Patricia Serafini*, Barbara Righetti, Ralph Vanstreels, Leandro Bugoni, Daína Lima, Jacó Mattos, Clei Piazza, Cristiane Kolesnikovas, Alice Pereira, Marcelo Maraschin, Isadora Piccinin, Tim Guilord, Luciana Gallo, Marcela Uhart, Rafael Lourenço, Afonso Bainy & Karim Lúchmann
*Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Cory’s Shearwater as a key bioindicator of plastic contamination for North East Atlantic hotspots of marine litter.

Yasmina Rodríguez*, Airam Rodríguez, Willem M.G.M. van Loon, João M. Pereira, João Frias, Emily M. Duncan, Sofia Garcia, Laura Herrera, Cristina Marquês, Verónica Neves, Cristopher Domínguez-Hernández, Javier Hernández-Borges, Beneharo Rodríguez & Christopher K. Pham
*OKEANO - Institute of Marine Sciences - University of the Azores, Portugal
Gulls as spreaders and sentinels of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in farmland environments.

Víctor Martín-Vélez*, Tomás Montalvo, David Giralt, Francisco Ramirez, Joan Giménez, Clara Morral-Puigmal, Raquel Planell, Sara Sabate, Gerard Bota % Joan Navarro
*Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM - CSIC), Spain
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in breeding shearwaters from the central Mediterranean Sea.

Lucie Michel*, Junjie Zhang, Alexandros Asimakopoulos, Martin Austad, Paco Bustamante, Jacopo G. Cecere, Marco Cianchetti-Benedetti, Roger Colominas-Ciuró, Giacomo Dell'Omo, Federico De Pascalis, Veerle L.B. Jaspers & Petra Quillfeldt
* University of Justus Liebig Giessen, Germany
SESSION: EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION (EDI TALKS)
The contribution of each scientist to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in science.Claudia Cavadas*
*University of Coimbra, Portugal
Toileting and menstruation during seabird fieldwork.
Eleanor M. Honan* & Lila Buckingham
*NINA - Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway
Variations in the time interval between feral Domestic Cat Felis catus eradication and the recovery of tropical seabird populations on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.
John B. Hughes* & James S. Reynolds
*Army Ornithological Society, UK
Following those who follow seabirds. Geography of marine ornithologists mobilities to the field site in and around the Arctic.

Mayline Strouk*
*University of Edinburgh, UK
Silent bird cliffs - a photographic journey through shifting baselines.

Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard*, Tycho Anker-Nilssen, Rob Barrett & Juliet Landrø
*NINA - Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway
Intensive shipping disturbance pushes common scoters around and away from their food in the main Dutch staging area in Spring.

Martin Poot*, Peter van Horssen, Ib Krag Pettersen, Els van der Zee, Sjoerd Dirksen & Mardik Leopold
*Wageningen Marine Research, Netherlands
PLENARY 3
Parental care: a challenge for seabird parents… and seabird researchers.
Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas*
*University of Gdańsk, Poland
SESSION: BEHAVIOUR AND EVOLUTION
Investigating the temporality of reproductive trade-offs in two albatross populations breeding under contrasting environmental conditions.
Bertille Mohring*, Richard Phillips, Henri Weimerskirch, Jonathan Potts, Denis Réale, Alastair Wilson, Christophe Barbraud, Ashley Bennison, Karine Delord, Andrew Wood & Samantha Patrick
*University of Liverpool, UK.
Prospecting behaviour in a tropical seabird, the red-footed booby.
Alice Trevail*, Ruth Dunn, Robin Freeman, Malcolm Nicoll & Stephen Votier
*University of Exeter, UK
Pervasive hybridisation throughout the evolutionary history of Mediterranean Puffinus Shearwaters prevents inbreeding depression.
Guillem Izquierdo-Arànega*, Cristian Cuevas-Caballé, Joan Ferrer Obiol, Francesco Giannelli, Josephine R. Paris, Jacob González-Solís, Marta Riutort & Julio Rozas
*University of Barcelona, Spain
Insights into kittiwake population connectivity derived from host-parasite microsatellite analyses.
Chloe P. Cargill*, Kara Layton, Beth E. Scott, Elizabeth A. Masden, Julie Miller, Lise Ruffino, Karen D. McCoy & Ana Payo-Pay
*University of Aberdeen, UK
SESSION: CENSUS, MONITORING AND DEMOGRAPHY
Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus ocean scale migration and population level processes.
Katherine Snell*, Inês Santos, Jón Aldarà, Rob van Bemmelen, Nina O'Hanlon, Sjúrður Hammer, Børge Moe, Hans Schekkerman, Greg Conway, Sveinn Hansen, Elina Mäntylä, Olivier Gilg, Gunnar Hallgrimsson, Dorothée Ehrich, Chris Thaxter, John Calladine, Helen Aiton, David Aiton, Dawn Balmer, Sarah Harris, Johannes Lang, Sölvi Vignisson, Yann Kolbeinsson, Kimmo Nuotio, Matti Sillanpää, Benoît Sittler, Aleksandr Sokolov, Raymond Klaassen, Richard Phillips, Elizabeth Humphreys, Ingrid Tulp & Kasper Thorup
*Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, Germany
Highly pathogenic avian influenza in Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis: impact on population size and demography.

Wouter Courtens*, Eric Stienen, Ulrich Knief & European Sandwich Tern Working Group
*Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Belgium
Adult survival in the seabird Leach's Storm-Petrel Hydrobates leucorhous covaries with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation over the past six decades.

Sarah E. Gutowsky*, Robert A. Ronconi, Gregory J. Robertson, Charles E. Huntington, Robert A. Mauck & Patricia L. Jones
*University of Acadia, Canada
A review of the ecology and conservation status of gadfly petrels in the world: gaps and priorities for research and management.
Maria Dias*, Elizabeth J Pearmain, Steffen Oppel, Mónica C. Silva & Tammy E. Davies
*University of Lisboa, Portugal
Quantitatively Assessing the Sensitivity of Seabirds to Anthropogenic Pressures Using PVA.

Eve Merrall*, Cat Horswill, Leonie Robinson, Francis Daunt, Julie Black & Jonathan Green
*University of Liverpool, UK
SESSION: FORAGING AND FEEDING ECOLOGY
Foraging strategies in anthropogenic landscapes modulate pathogen load and antioxidant status in an opportunistic predator.
Roger Colominas-Ciuró*, Jordi Figuerola, Isabel Afán, Francisco Ramírez, Manuela G. Forero, Montserrat Solé & Joan Navarro
*University of Barcelona, Spain
Niche Segregation of Sympatric storm-petrels in the Eastern Pacific: A GPS Tracking and Prey DNA Metabarcoding Study.
Wiebke C. Schäfer*, Yuliana Bedolla-Guzmán, Ariana Duarte & Petra Quillfeldt
*University of Justus Liebig Giessen, Germany
SESSION: BEHAVIOUR AND EVOLUTION
Non-breeding strategies and genetics of the northernmost population of subtropical Brown Skua Stercorarius antarcticus.
Karine Delord, Laura Martinez Anton, Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun, Yves Cherel, Yann Dorant, Célia Lesage, Sabrina Le Cam, Eric Pante, Christophe Barbraud & Amélia Viricel-Pante
* Centre d´Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, France
Social interactions beyond near neighbours: the influence of spatial nest distribution on Atlantic Puffin’s social network.

Antoine Morel* & Pierre-Paul Bitton
*Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
SESSION: CENSUS, MONITORING AND DEMOGRAPHY
Habitat modelling of aerial survey data reveals the displaced coastal distribution and at-sea population size of an elusive seabird: the European Storm-Petrel.
Darren Wilkinson*, Jamie Darby, Ashley Bennison, Hélder Araújo, Oriol Giralt Paradell, David Tierney Emer Rogan, Mark Jessopp John L. Quinn
* University College Cork, Ireland
Collaborative monitoring, tracking and modelling to improve the conservation outlook for declining Leach's Storm-Petrels in the north Atlantic.

April Hedd*, Laura A. McFarlane Tranquilla, Katharine R. Studholme, Sabina I. Wilhelm, Alexander L. Bond, Vegard S. Brøthen, Neil M. Burgess, Rachel Bryant, Anna M. Calvert, Sydney M. Collins, Joshua T. Cunningham, David A. Fifield, Gail S. Fraser, Carina Gjerdrum, Sarah Gutowsky, Erpur S. Hansen, Stephen J. Hurling, Patricia L. Jones, Mark L. Mallory, Robert A. Mauck, William A. Montevecchi, Ingrid L. Pollet, Isabeau Pratte, Jennifer C. Rock, Robert A. Ronconi, Janet Russell, Dave Shutler & Gregory J. Robertson
*Environment and Climate Change, Canada
I'll be back ... or not: Survival of juvenile Adélie Penguins continues to decline across the species range.
Téo Barracho*, Gaël Bardon, Rémi Choquet, Aymeric Houstin, Cindy C. Cornet, Robin Cristofari, Thierry Raclot, Sebastian Richter, Alexander Winterl, Daniel P. Zitterbart, Nicolas Lecomte & Céline Le Bohec
* Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Monaco
Fitness consequences of pre- and post-fledging environmental conditions in King Penguins.
Gaël Bardon, Flavia N. Fernandes, Téo Barracho, Nicolas Lecomte, Lana Lenourry, Robin Cristofari, Emiliano Trucchi & Céline Le Bohec*
*University of La Rochelle, France
SESSION: FISHERIES
Trends, threats, knowledge gaps, and global political responsibility for the conservation of priority populations of albatrosses and large petrels.
Richard A. Phillips*, Paulo Catry, Maria Dias, Steffen Oppel, David J. Anderson, Christophe Barbraud, KarineDelord, Graeme Elliott, David Nicholls, Kath Walker, Ross Wanless, Henri Weimerskirch & Martin Beal
*British Antarctic Survey, UK
Evaluating the interaction between marine food subsidies and the main scavenging seabird species in the Bay of Biscay (Northeastern Atlantic).

Mathilde Huon*, Ghislain Dorémus, Vincent Brétille, Matthieu Authier & Jérôme Spitz
*University of La Rochelle, France
Reducing seabird interactions with bottom set-nets: Lessons learned from the Project LIFE + Ilhas Barreira.

Ana Marçalo*, Magda Frade, Flávia Carvalho, Ana Almeida, Nuno Oliveira, Joana Andrade, Jorge Pereira, Vitor H. Paiva & Jorge M.S. Gonçalves
*University of Algarve, Portugal
Automatic identification of interactions with boats is limited by individual variations in behaviour in Wandering Albatrosses.

Ewen Le Scornec*, Marianna Chimienti, Alexandre Corbeau, Adrien Pajot, Henri Weimerskirch & Julien Collet
*University La Rochelle, France