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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>WICKLIFFE, L.C., &amp; JODICE,
P.G.R. 2010. Seabird attendance at shrimp trawlers in nearshore waters of South
Carolina<i>. Marine Ornithology </i></span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:
"Times New Roman"'>38: 31–39.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Many seabirds attend
commercial fishing vessels to obtain food, but the effect on their distribution
and abundance has received virtually no attention off the southeastern United
States. We examined distribution and abundance of four locally breeding
seabirds (Brown Pelicans <i>Pelecanus occidentalis</i></span><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>, Laughing Gulls <i>Leucophaeus atricilla</i></span><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>, Royal Terns <i>Sterna maxima</i></span><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>, and Sandwich Terns <i>Sterna
sandvicensis</i></span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>)
in relation to shrimp trawling activity in the nearshore waters of South
Carolina from May to August, 2006 and 2007. Since 1992, numbers of breeding
Brown Pelicans and Royal Terns have declined substantially in South Carolina,
while the shrimp fleet has declined concurrently for economic reasons. We
counted more than 36 000 birds in surveys conducted on 39 commercial
trawler-days. All four locally breeding seabirds attended trawlers regularly,
but pelagic seabirds were rare. Laughing Gulls were the most abundant species
observed, and Laughing Gulls and Royal Terns were each observed on &gt;90% of
surveys. Seabird abundance was highest when trawlers were discarding bycatch.
Spatial distributions varied among species but abundance of each species
appeared to be relatively consistent out to 30 km from colonies. Given their
abundance at trawlers, Laughing Gulls may be affected most strongly by the
availability of discarded bycatch, but terns and Brown Pelicans forage at trawlers
frequently enough that changes in the size of the shrimp fleet might affect
their foraging ecology as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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