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Proceedings of a symposium covering bird distribution in the Bering Sea, in the central North Pacific, off the costs of British Columbia and Washington, and in the California current, and explores the effects of climate changes such as the El Nino/Southern Oscillation and potential global warming on seabirds and their prey. The second section includes chapters on nesting and visiting seabirds in the North Pacific, from the Tropic of Cancer in the south to the Bering Sea in the north. Bird groups covered are albatrosses, fulmars, gadfly petrels and storm petrels, shearwaters, gulls, kittiwakes, terns, guillemots, murrelets, murres, puffins, and auklets. The third section includes chapters on the effects of environmental hazards such as gillnetting, introduced predators, human disturbance, plastic ingestion, contamination by trace metals and chlorinated hydrocarbons, and oil spillage on marine birds.