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

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

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

Brown pelicans and other coastal birds are appearing at rescue centers in droves as Pacific heat wave broils coastal waters ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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”.

Many of those birds have tested negative for avian flu, suggesting starvation as the primary cause.

Blue petrel, one of the seabird species that mistakes the smell of algae on plastic as food UCD/J.J. Harrison Up to 90 percent of all seabirds eat plastic. In the 1960s that number was only about five ...