{"id":2597,"date":"2010-12-11T12:12:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T20:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2010-12-11T12:12:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T20:12:33","slug":"fishing-for-sea-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2010\/12\/11\/fishing-for-sea-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing for sea birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone knows how you catch a fish:\u00a0\u00a0 With a net, or with a pole, right?<\/p>\n

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NOAA ship Oscar Dyson, Bering Sea, 2010 (photo: N. Jones)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But, how do marine scientists manage to catch sea birds?\u00a0 Can\u2019t they just \u201cfly away\u201d?<\/p>\n

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Black-footed Albatross, NE Pacific; (photo: Bert Ashley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course, most species can do just that!\u00a0 So, how to get your hands on these shy creatures?\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if the birds just gathered in groups, like so many fishes do?<\/p>\n

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Fish aggregations recorded by echosounder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wait \u2026<\/p>\n

Seabirds DO gather in groups \u2013 to nest at their breeding colonies,<\/p>\n

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Seabird colony on Buldir Island, Aleutians (photo: N. Jones)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… and sometimes at sea in large, drifting \u201crafts\u201d!<\/p>\n

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Auklets (-Least, -Crested, -Parakeet), Buldir Island, Aleutians (photo: N. Jones)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…So, how to catch seabirds \u2026 hmmmm?<\/p>\n

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author Nate Jones, with a feathered friend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone knows how you catch a fish:\u00a0\u00a0 With a net, or with a pole, right? But, how do marine scientists manage to catch sea birds?\u00a0 Can\u2019t they just \u201cfly away\u201d? Of course, most species can do just that!\u00a0 So, how to get your hands on these shy creatures?\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if the birds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118,258],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fish","tag-seabirds"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}