The RHAU days of summer
This fall when COASST bird verifier Charlie Wright returned from his summer field season in Alaska, he found an unusual number of Rhinoceros Auklets (RHAU) on surveys waiting to be verified. COASSTers won’t be surprised!
Photo: Hillary Burgess
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COASSTers are always up to something! Find stories about our participants, updates about beached bird or marine debris research, and read about the latest activities of the COASST office staff and interns.
Beached birds on the move, or,… not.
When COASST was getting started, there were a whole bunch of things we wanted to know that required each bird to be uniquely tagged: How long do birds persist on the beach? What body parts
Inside a debris survey
It’s the wrack zone that’s so difficult to figure out—where it begins, where it ends. “See, there’s a piece,” says Adelia Ritchie, pointing to a short scrap of seagrass, and then another, and another. “You can see there’s sort of a whole band all along here.”