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Title: Conservation of marine birds of northern North America

Editor: James C. Bartonek

David N. Nettleship


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Language: English

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WILDLIFE RESEARCH REPORTS

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Conservation of marine birds of northern North America.

(Wildlife research report: 11)

Supt. of Docs. no.: I 49.47/4:11

1. Sea birds—North America—Congresses. 2. Sea birds—Northwest, Pacific—Congresses. 3. Birds, Protection of—North America—Congresses. 4. Birds, Protection of—Northwest, Pacific—Congresses. 5. Birds—North America—Congresses. 6. Birds—Northwest, Pacific—Congresses. I. Bartonek, James C. II. Natural Resources Council of America. III. United States. Fish and Wildlife Service. IV. Series.

QL681.C59333.9'5 79-607005

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CONSERVATION OF MARINE BIRDS OF NORTHERN NORTH AMERICA

CONSERVATION OF MARINE BIRDS OF
NORTHERN NORTH AMERICA
Papers from the International Symposium
held at the Seattle Hyatt House,
Seattle, Washington, 13-15 May 1975

Edited by

James C. Bartonek and David N. Nettleship

  • Sponsored by
  • Natural Resources Council of America
  • National Audubon Society
  • National Wildlife Federation
  • U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
 Wildlife Research Report 11
Washington, D.C. • 1979

Dedicated to the Memory
of

Robert D. Bergman, Leonard A. Boughton, and J. Larry Haddock, Wildlife Biologists of the Fish and Wildlife Service, and Robert Johnson, Pilot of the Office of Aircraft Services, all of the U.S. Department of the Interior, who perished in the Gulf of Alaska on 30 September 1974 while conducting aerial surveys of marine birds,

and to

Einar Brun, Professor of Zoology in Tromsø University and a contributor to these proceedings, who perished in the Vega Sea on 13 July 1976 when returning from making aerial surveys of marine birds.