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In Search of the Xantus’ Murrelet
The most important part of our study was counting seabirds and marine mammals around Santa Barbara Island. We repeated surveys along the transect lines originally done by G.L. Hunt, Jr. in 1976. Whenever the boat was underway, we recorded all seabirds within 200m of our boat. To determine where 200m was, we used trigonometry—measurements of…