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VOLUME 15, ISSUE 1, ARTICLE 11 D'Entremont, K. J. N., L. Minich Zitske, A. J. Gladwell, N. K. Elliott, R. A. Mauck, and R. A. Ronconi. 2020. Breeding population decline and associations with nest site use of Leach’s Storm-Petrels on Kent Island, New Brunswick from 2001 to 2018. Avian Conservation and Ecology 15(1):11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-01526-150111 Copyright © 2020 by the author(s). Published here under license by the Resilience Alliance. Research Paper Breeding population decline and associations with nest site use of Leach’s Storm-Petrels on Kent Island, New Brunswick from 2001 to 2018 Kyle J. N. d'Entremont 1,2, Laura Minich Zitske 3,4, Alison J. Gladwell 1, Nathan K. Elliott 3,5, Robert A. Mauck 6 and Robert A. Ronconi 7,8 1Dalhousie University, Canada, 2Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, 3Bowdoin College, USA, 4Maine Audubon, USA, 5Point Blue Conservation Science, USA, 6Kenyon College, USA, 7Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, 8Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada ABSTRACT. Leach’s Storm-Petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous) are burrow-nesting seabirds that breed on coastal islands throughout much of the North Atlantic, with most of the world’s population breeding in Atlantic Canada. Population declines in the past 20–30 years have resulted in the species being uplisted to “Vulnerable” on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species. One of the species’ most well-studied colonies is on Kent Island, New Brunswick in the Bay of Fundy.
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