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Thousands of Yelkouan Shearwaters gathered in the Black Sea, east of the Strait of Kerch (photo: A. V. Popovich)
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CIESM Seabird Program identifies seasonal Adriatic - Black Sea connectivity
Seabirds, highly threatened by global change, are now an integral part of CIESM research. We started our investigations with the seasonal migration of the Yelkouan Shearwater- a pelagic seabird endemic to the Mediterranean and Black Sea- on which so little is known. In late June, on a remote Croatian island, we equipped a dozen birds with extra-light satellite transmitters. Since then, half of them have embarked one by one on a long journey that ended mostly in the eastern Black Sea, in the vicinity of the Azov Sea (see photo) - spawning grounds for millions of anchovies. Which raises intriguing questions to be adressed in the next phases of our investigations, from the navigational tools used by a species that never flies overland, to the trigger of their departure, to the migratory capacity of the juveniles - some of them also reaching the Black Sea after traveling at least 2600 km.
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Our 42nd Intl Congress (Oct. 2019, Cascais, Portugal) focused on Mediterranean / Atlantic exchanges
Find here a collection of reports, videos and photos capturing some of the best moments
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Views of 2016 Congress
Our 41th Congress was held in Kiel at the kind invitation of the German Government
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