Poor seabird chick fledging rates
Observation: Most of the seabirds species nesting on St. George Island had very poor chick fledgling rates. Least auklet chicks should weigh between 75-90 g but we found they were much smaller and unable to fly, so we weighed a few chicks that we found - one of these was ~45 g and the other ~60 g. Also the small one was ~1/2 grown size wise while the larger one was ~5/6 full size but still under weight. This is important to our community because there were no murre eggs to harvest this year.
Observations From Members 