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  • The Fight for SBI

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    Our project makes up only a fraction of the Xantus’s murrelet and Santa Barbara Island restoration projects.  Many of the Channel Islands were disturbed by agriculture and ranching before they became protected. While the feral cats that preyed on the native, nesting seabirds are no longer there,   Invasive plants, however, still run rampant on the…

  • Murrelets in the Spotlight

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              After dark all the murrelets come back to the island to socialize and rest from a long day of feeding. Not only do they have to watch out for hungry sea lions, but also our fearless crew of bird-netters! We are collaborating with a research team that is working on a population study of…

  • In Search of the Xantus’ Murrelet

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    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…