Island Setting
Seabirds

Thirty-eight species of seabirds inhabit the Bering Sea and adjacent waters (Loughlin et al. 1999). This includes the Procellariiformes (albatrosses, shearwaters, and petrels), Pelecaniformes (cormorants), and two families of the Charadriiformes—Laridae (gulls) and Alcidae (auks, such as puffins, murres, auklets, and murrelets). The National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimate that seabird breeding populations in the Bering Sea number thirty-six million (Boldt 2005, Appendix C).

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Thick-billed murres on the cliffs of St. George Island (NOAA).