How do you deter a seabird? Make a loud noise? Wave your arms around or abandon your fish and chips to the gulls of the sky?

A tall buoy with a rotating pair of eyes was supposed to scare birds away from caught fish. Like scarecrows, it didn't work ...

Every year, between March and August, the Bempton Cliffs in the UK (on the east coast in Yorkshire) become a spectacular ...

Dead birds are dotting the California coastline due to warmer-than-usual ocean waters that is driving fish further out to sea.

In Danish fisheries, fish-eating seabirds are a menace. They often swoop down and feed on fish trapped in nets, which can hit ...

Animals cover astonishing distances when they are looking for food. While caribou, reindeer and wolves clock up impressive mileage on land, seabirds are unrivaled in their traveling distances. Arctic ...

Historically warm waters in 2014 caused strandings of malnourished birds, sea lions along beaches, worsened drought ...

When different species of seabirds share a habitat with limited sources of food, they must differ in their feeding habits. This specialization is known by biologists as an “ecological niche”.

In the fall of 2015, two years into a heatwave in the Pacific Ocean colloquially known as “the Blob,” an unusually large influx of common murres, a small northern seabird, began to wash ashore. They ...

Dead and dying seabirds collected on the coasts of the northern Bering and southern Chukchi seas over the past six years reveal how the Arctic's fast-changing climate is threatening the ecosystems and ...

As many as nine out of 10 of the world's seabirds likely have pieces of plastic in their guts, a new study estimates. Previously, scientists figured about 29 percent of seabirds had swallowed plastic, ...