A recent article from CBC News features BRI’s research on declining eider duck populations and highlights the major tracking project taking place in Maine and parts of Atlantic Canada. “Scientists from a United States research institute are gearing up to travel to Grand Manan, N.B., at the end of this month to implant tracking devices in some eider ducks and set them free again. The hope is that those ducks will someday shed light on why the species is declining in places like New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Maine, but increasing in others, like Newfoundland and Labrador.”
The project includes researchers from BRI, the Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Maine’s Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and Acadia University.
