Plastic recovered from northern fulmars being sorted. (Credit: Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge) This is the second study from a collaboration between UC Santa Cruz and SDZWA to reveal how plastic exposure ...

Fulmars are grey and white seabirds, with a distinctive hooked beak A marine ecologist based in Aberdeen is asking beachcombers around Scotland to send him dead fulmars. Ewan Edwards says ferocious ...

BODEGA BAY — Sara Bogard halted her dog as the two began descending the cliff down to Manchester Beach, along the Mendocino coast. Below, scores of dead and dying birds littered the beach as far as ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Plastic found in the stomachs of dead seabirds suggests the Pacific Ocean off the northwest coast ...

Contrary to previous belief, new research has shown that microplastics are not a significant source of environmental pollutants in fulmars. Seabirds ingest most of these pollutants through food, the ...

When birds forage at sea, they pick up mercury and pesticide residues, which end up accumulating near nesting colonies, suggests a study in Arctic Canada. Some 10,000 pairs of medium-size seabirds ...

A NEW documentary series has claimed that bird species such as the Fulmar and Puffin may disappear from the Saltee Islands if fish stocks continue to decline and the sea continues to get warmer.

Plastic pollution is seen as a growing threat to wildlife as birds, such as fulmars, can mistake it for food. We urgently need to reduce the amount of plastic in the marine environment. Small pieces ...

From this vantage point, fulmars may not look like the most graceful of birds. Yet they glide more elegantly than their gull lookalikes, floating effortlessly in the air as they rise on updrafts to ...

A marine ecologist based in Aberdeen is asking beachcombers around Scotland to send him dead fulmars. Ewan Edwards says ferocious weather events, like Storm Caroline, usually mean dead birds being ...