WILDLIFE RESEARCH REPORTS

This series comprises reports of research relating to birds, mammals, and otherwildlife and their ecology, and specialized bibliographies on these, issued for wildliferesearch and management specialists. The Service distributes these reports to officialagencies, to libraries, and to researchers in fields related to the Service's work.

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, Protectionof—North America—Congresses.4. Birds, Protection of—Northwest, Pacific—Congresses. 5.Birds—NorthAmerica—Congresses. 6. Birds—Northwest, Pacific—Congresses. I.Bartonek, James C. II. Natural Resources Council of America. III. UnitedStates. Fish and Wildlife Service. IV. Series.

QL681.C59333.9'5 79-607005

Use of trade names does not imply U.S. Government endorsement of commercial products.

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Dedicated to the Memory
of

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

and to

Einar Brun, Professor of Zoology in Tromsø University and a contributorto these proceedings, who perished in the Vega Sea on 13 July1976 when returning from making aerial surveys of marine birds.

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