MARINE ORNITHOLOGY
Vol. 37 No. 1 ISSN 1018-3337 2009
Contents
SALISH SEA ECOSYSTEM SYMPOSIUM Foreword to Symposium
BUTLER, R.W. Twenty years on: advances in ecological understanding of globally important birds in the Strait of Georgia,
British Columbia, and Puget Sound, Washington . . . 2 Papers
THERRIAULT, T.W., HAY, D.E. & SCHWEIGERT, J.F. Biological overview and trends in pelagic forage fish abundance
in the Salish Sea (Strait of Georgia, British Columbia) . . . 3–8 BOWER, J.L. Changes in marine bird abundance in the Salish Sea: 1975 to 2007. . . 9–17 ANDERSON, E.M., BOWER, J.L., NYSEWANDER, D.R., EVENSON, J.R. & LOVVORN, J.R. Changes in avifaunal
abundance in a heavily used wintering and migration site in Puget Sound, Washington, during 1966–2007 . . . 19–27 GOLUMBIA, T.E., NYSEWANDER, D.R., BUTLER, R.W., MILNER, R.L., CYRA, T.A. & EVENSON, J.R.
Status of breeding Black Oystercatchers (Haematopus bachmani) in the Salish Sea . . . 29–32 JANSSEN, M.H., ARCESE, P., KYSER, T.K., BERTRAM, D.F., MCFARLANE-TRANQUILLA, L., WILLIAMS, T.D.
& NORRIS, D.R. Pre-breeding diet, condition and timing of breeding in a threatened seabird, the Marbled Murrelet
Brachyramphus marmoratus . . . 33–40 HAMEL, N.J., BURGER, A.E., CHARLETON, K., DAVIDSON, P., LEE, S., BERTRAM, D.F. & PARRISH, J.K.
Bycatch and beached birds: assessing mortality impacts in coastal net fisheries using marine bird strandings . . . 41–60 O’HARA, P.D., DAVIDSON, P. & BURGER, A.E. Aerial surveillance and oil spill impacts based on beached bird survey
data collected in southern British Columbia . . . 61–65 GOOD, T.P., JUNE, J.A., ETNIER, M.A. & BROADHURST, G. Ghosts of the Salish Sea: threats to marine birds in
Puget Sound and the Northwest Straits from derelict fishing gear . . . 67–76
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
MCKINNON, L., GILCHRIST, H.G. & FIFIELD, D. A pelagic seabird survey of Arctic and sub-Arctic Canadian
waters during fall . . . 77–84 FERNS, P.N. & ROSS-SMITH, V.H. Function of coloured bill tips, stripes and spots in breeding gulls . . . 85–92
REVIEWS
JONES, I.L. Birds of the Aleutian islands, Alaska (by D.D. Gibson and G.V. Byrd) . . . 93 HIPFNER, M. Identification guide to North American birds. Part II—Anatidae to Alcidae (by P. Pyle) . . . 94–95
