Model Initiatives

Long-term U.S. Pacific & Canadian efforts provide valuable models for the SEANET program:

COASST: Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team, University of Washington, initiated in 1999, produced full color field guide.

SEANET worked with COASST and Bird Studies Canada to produce a version for Atlantic seabirds. The new guide, "Beached Birds: A COASST Field Guide to the North Atlantic" is due to be available in spring 2006. Distribution in the U.S. will be through Tufts, and in Canada, through Bird Studies Canada.

"Beached Birds" is published by Wavefall Press with assistance from the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife and the Pacific Seabird Group. Copies are available through Flora and Fauna Books, Seattle. For more info call (206)623-4727 or email ffbooks@blarg.net. Non-profit organizations and government programs should contact COASST directly. Click book to view sample pages.

Beach COMBERS: Coastal Ocean Mammal / Bird Education Research Survey (Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary) - ongoing since 1997.

POW: Prevention of Oiled Wildlife, Canadian Coast Guard / multi-agency effort - initiated in 1984; Canadian Wildlife Service estimates 300,000 seabirds die per year off southeastern Newfoundland due to chronic oil pollution.

Bird Studies Canada: Bird Studies of Canada started beached bird surveys in 2001 with the Canadian Wildlife Service.

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