MARINE ORNITHOLOGY Volume 31 (2) 2003 SEABIRD BIOGEOGRAPHY SYMPOSIUM ISSUE African Seabird Group Pacific Seabird Group Australasian Seabird Group Dutch Seabird Group The Seabird Group Edited by Rob Barrett John Cooper Tony Gaston MARINE ORNITHOLOGY An International Journal of Seabird Science and Conservation published by: Pacific Seabird Group on behalf of: African Seabird Group, Australasian Seabird Group, Dutch Seabird Group, Pacific Seabird Group and UK Seabird Group ISSN 1018-3337 www.marineornithology.org EDITORS Rob Barrett, University of Tromsø, (Europe) John Cooper, University of Cape Town (Southern Hemisphere and Africa) Tony Gaston, Canadian Wildlife Service (North America, Asia) EDITORIAL BOARD David Ainley, H.T. Harvey & Assoc., Box 1180, Alviso, California 95002, U.S.A. Lisa Ballance (Review Editor, 2000-2004), SW Fisheries Science Center, 8604 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, California 92037, U.S.A. Alan Burger, Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 3N5, Canada. Kees Camphuysen, Ankerstraat 20, 1794 BJ Oosterend, Texel, Netherlands. John Croxall,British Antarctic Survey, Madingly Rd., Cambridge CB3 0ET, U.K. Lloyd Davis,Dept. of Zoology, University of Otago, Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand. Craig S. Harrison, 4001 N. 9th Street, Number 1801, Arlington, Virginia 22203, U.S.A. Norbert Klages,Port Elizabeth Museum, PO Box 13147, Humewood 6013, South Africa. Bill Montevecchi, Biopsychology Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland A1X 3A9, Canada. David Nettleship, 25 Tidewater Lane, Allen Heights, Tantallon, Nova Scotia B0J 3J0, Canada. Alejandro Scolaro, Centro Nacional Patagónico, Casillo de Correo 69, 9120 Puerto Madryn-Chubut, Argentina. Bill Sydeman, Point Reyes Bird Observatory, 4990 Shoreline Highway, Stinson Beach, California 94970, U.S.A. Sarah Wanless, Institute for Terrestrial Ecology, Banchory, Kincardineshire, AB31 4BY, U.K. Yutaka Watanuki,Laboratory of Applied Zoology, Hokkaido University, Kita-9 Nishi-9, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060, Japan. Henri Weimerskirch, CNRS-CEBC, Beauvoir 79360, France. Rory Wilson, Institut für Meereskunde an der Universität Kiel, Dusternbrooker Weg 20, D-2300 Kiel 1, Germany. Ron Wooller,School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, W. Australia 6150, Australia. Marine Ornithology is abstracted/indexed in the Antarctic Bibliography, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Current Advances in Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Current Antarctic Literature, Ecological Abstracts, Ecology Abstracts, Geo Abstracts, Geobase, Oceanographic Literature Review, Ornithological Abstracts, Polar and Glacialogical Abstracts, Recent Ornithological Literature, Wildlife Review and Zoological Record - Aves DTP: Reber Creative, Victoria, British Columbia Front cover picture: “The Wanderer”, original painting by Peter Hall donated to BirdLife International’s Save the Albatross Campaign (www.birdlife.net/seabirds/). With permission of BirdLife International and the artist. Dutch Seabird Group MARINE ORNITHOLOGY Vol. 31 No. 2 ISSN 1018-3337 2003 Contents SYMPOSIUM: SEABIRD BIOGEOGRAPHY HYRENBACH, K.D. & IRONS, D.B. 2003. Introduction to the symposium on seabird biogeography: the past, present and future of marine bird communities . 95-99 BADUINI, C.L. & HYRENBACH, K.D. 2003. Biogeography of Procellariiform foraging strategies: does ocean productivity influence provisioning? . 101-112 BURGER, A. E. Effects of the Juan de Fuca Eddy and upwelling on densities and distributions of seabirds off southwest Vancouver Island, British Columbia . 113-122 DAVOREN, G.K., MONTEVECCHI, W.A. & ANDERSON, J.T. The influence of fish behaviour on search strategies of Common Murres Uria aalge in the Northwest Atlantic . 123-131 KULETZ, K.J., STEPHENSEN, S.W., IRONS, D.B., LABUNSKI, E.A, & BRENNEMAN, K.M. 2003. Changes in distribution and abundance of Kittlitz’s Murrelets Brachyramphus brevirostris relative to glacial recession in Prince William Sound, Alaska . 133-140 PIATT, J.F. & SPRINGER, A.M. 2003. Advection, pelagic food webs and the biogeography of seabirds in Beringia . 141-154 SMITH, J.L. & HYRENBACH, K.D. Galápagos Islands to British Columbia: seabird communities along a 9000 km transect from the tropical to the subarctic eastern Pacific Ocean . 155-166 STEPHENSEN, S.W. & D.B. IRONS. Comparison of colonial breeding seabirds in the eastern Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska . 167-173 WILLIAMS, J.C., BYRD, G.V. & KONYUKHOV, N.B. Whiskered Auklets Aethia pygmaea,foxes, humans and how to right a wrong . 175-180 PAPERS BENSON, J., SURYAN, R.M. & PIATT, J.F. 2003. Assessing chick growth from a single visit to a seabird colony . 181-184 CARLILE, N., PRIDDEL, D., ZINO, F., NATIVIDAD, C. & WINGATE, D.B. 2003. A review of four successful recovery programmes for threatened, sub-tropical petrels . 185-192 JOHNSTON, R., BETTANY, S., OGLE, M., AIKMAN, H., TAYLOR, G. & IMBER, M.J. 2003. Breeding and fledging behaviour of the Chatham Taiko (Magenta Petrel) Pterodroma magentae, and predator activity at burrows. 193-197 MARIANO-JELICICH, R., FAVERO, M. & SILVA, M.P. 2003. Fish prey of the Black Skimmer Rynchops niger at Mar Chiquita, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina . 199-202 ROUX, J-P., KEMPER, J., BARTLETT, P.A., DYER, B.M. & DUNDEE, B.L. 2003. African Penguins Spheniscus demersus recolonise a formerly abandoned nesting locality in Namibia . 203-205 PARKER, N., CAM, E., LANK, D.B. & COOKE, F. In review. Post-fledging survival of Marbled Murrelets Brachyramphus marmoratus estimated with radio-marked juveniles in Desolation Sound, British Columbia . 207-212 MARINE ORNITHOLOGY Marine Ornithology (from 2003) is produced by the Pacific Papers: reports of research results or conservation action Seabird group, on behalf of the African, Australasian, Dutch, exceeding 2000 words in length; Pacific and UK Seabird Groups. The 2003 volume is published Short communications: reports shorter than 2000 words; with the assistance of the Publications Fund of the Pacific Seabird Status reports: comprehensive reviews of seabird population– Group. 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