Chapter 3 North Carolina Species
3.11.7.3 Research Research topics that facilitate appropriate conservation actions include habitat use and preferences, reproductive behavior, fecundity, population dynamics and genetics, feeding, competition, and food web dynamics. Increased understanding of the histories and status help determine the vulnerability of priority species to further imperilment, in addition to identifying possibilities for improved management and conservation. All studies should provide recommendations for mitigation and restoration. Formal descriptions for known or putative undescribed species and investigations aimed at resolving taxonomic status are needed.
Priority Conservation Action, Examples of Focal Species or Focal Habitats
• Along South Atlantic coast beaches, research the rates of and reasons for wintering Common Loon mortality. This should help evaluate the risks to seabird populations in this area. Common Loon • Establish whether foraging Black-capped Petrels within the Gulf Stream (especially off Cape Hatteras) are the same as birds concurrently breeding in Haiti (Hunter 2004b). Black-capped Petrel • Examine the role of commercial fisheries in seabird mortality and review the estimation methodologies and compile indirect bycatch mortality estimates for sea birds (ICCAT 2014). • Investigate the value of using offshore metocean data collected for offshore wind energy lease projects. Metocean buoy/TRBM devices use numerous sensors that continuously collect data from tagged animals: nanotag antennas; bird and bat Mic-SM4-Acoustic sensors; Marine Mammal Hydrophone-Loggerhead LS1-Acoustic sensors and Chelonia F- POD; and VEMCO fish tag receivers are examples.
https://remote.normandeau.com/uswind_home.php and https://remote.normandeau.com/buoy_overview.php.
Red Knot Piping Plover Roseate Tern
Spring and Fall migrant passerines
• Along South Atlantic coast beaches, research into the rates of and reasons for wintering Common Loon mortality should help evaluate the risks to seabird populations in this area. Common Loon • Investigate whether foraging Black-capped Petrels within the Gulf Stream (especially off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina) are the same as birds concurrently breeding in Haiti. Black-capped Petrel
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