Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:38:47 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fred Pierce Subject: Re: Demise of Ivory Gull? In-Reply-To: <192.21960fe0.2ccc03ca@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The latest Goddard News corraborates the global warming/arctic ice comments - http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/goddardnews/20031024/warming.html fdp -------------------------------------------------------------------- Fred Pierce (DNRC)- fpierce@avialantic.com Mid-Atlantic Aviation on the Web - http://www.avialantic.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM]On > Behalf Of Paul O'Brien > Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 1:50 PM > To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM > Subject: [MDOSPREY] Demise of Ivory Gull? > > > Some Ospreyers have seen Ivory Gulls and many more would probably like > to see one, especially in Maryland. But that may become impossible in > the near future. A very troubling article in the Sept. 26, 2003 issue > of Science (Vol. > 301, pp. 1840-1) by Kevin Krajick discusses the observations of > Canadian Wildlife > Service biologist Grant Gilchrist who estimates that IVGU populations in > Canada "have plummeted 90% over the past 20 years". Gilchrist > was alerted to the > problem in 2000 "when Canadian Inuit hunters told researchers that they no > longer saw the birds at sea or at town garbage dumps". > ... > Explanations for the decline are not clear. Warming has caused > icecaps on the Canadian islands where the gulls nest to shrink 15% to > 20% since the 1960s. > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================