Biology of Marine Birds

6 credits · Undergraduate Programs

A study of the interrelationship of birds and the marine environment. Lectures will emphasize the systematics and ecological relationships, behaviour, life histories, movements and conservation of marine birds. Census techniques and methods of study of marine birds in the field will be considered. Seabird identification, classification, morphology, plumage and moult will be examined in the laboratory. Prerequisite(s): Zoology 403 and consent of the Department.