Publications & Theses

Publications:

2024

Major, H.L., Cormier, T.L., and Diamond, A.W. (2024) Melanistic Razorbill Alca torda at Machias Seal Island, New Brunswick, Canada. Marine Ornithology: in press

Major, H.L., Rivers, J.E., Carvey, Q.B., and Diamond, A.W. (2024) The incredible shrinking puffin: Decreasing size and increasing proportional bill size of Atlantic Puffins nesting at Machias Seal Island. PLoS ONE 19(1): e0295946 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295946

2023

Pollet, I.L., Penske, A.K., Ausems, A.N.M.A., Barbraud, C., Bedroll-Guzman, Y., Bickness, A.W.J., Bolton, M., Bond, A.L., Delors, K., Diamond, A.W., Fifield, D.A., Gjerdrum, C., Halpin, L.R., Hansen, E.S., Heid, A., Hoeg, R., Major, H.L., Mauck, R.A., McClelland, G.T.W., McFarlane-Tranquilla, L., Montevecchi, W.A., Parker, M., Pratte, I., Rail, J.-F., Robertson, G.J., Rock, J.C., Ronconi, R.A., Shutler, D., Stenhouse, I.J., Takahashi, A., Watanuki, Y., Welch, L.J., Wilhelm, S.I., Wong, S.N.P., and Mallory, M.L. (2023) Experts' opinions on threats to Leach's Storm-petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous) across their global range. Avian Conservation and Ecology 18: 11. doi: 10.5751/ACE-02370-180111

2022

Ronconi, R.A, Lieske, D.J., McFarlane-Tranquilla, L., Abbott, S., Allard, K.A., Allen, B., Black, A.L., Bolduc, F., Davoren, G.K., Diamond, A.W., Fifield, D.A., Garthe, S., Gjerdrum, C., Hedd, H., Mallory, M.L., Mauck, R.A., McKnight, J., Montevecchi, W.A., Pollet, I.L., Pratte, I., Rail, J.-F., Regular, P.M., Robertson, G.J., Rock, J.C., Savoy, L., Shlepr, K.R., Shutler, D., Symons, S.C., Taylor, P.D., Wilhelm, S.I. (2022) Predicting seabird foraging habitat for conservation planning in Atlantic Canada: integrating telemetry and survey data across thousands of colonies. Frontiers in Marine Sciences 9: 816794. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.816794

Symons, S.C., and Diamond, A.W. (2022) Resource partitioning in Atlantic Puffins and Razorbills facing declining food: an analysis of feeding areas and dive behaviour in relation to diet. Marine Ecology Progress Series 699: 153-165. doi: 10.3354/meps14172

Baron, M.A., Press, S.W., Shannon, P., Lyons, D.E., Major, H.L., and Diamond, A.W. (2022) Overwinter movements of Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) breeding in the Gulf of Maine: inter- and intra-colony effects. Waterbirds 45: 1-16. doi: 10.1675/063.045.0103

Keogan, K., Daunt, F., Wanless, S., Phillips, R.A., Alvarez, D., Anker-Nilssen, T., Barrett, R.T., Bech, C., Becker, P.H., Berglund, P.-A., Bouwhuis, S., Burr, Z.M., Chastel, O., Christensen-Dalsgaard, S., Descamps, S., Diamond, T., Elliott, K., Erikstad, K.-E., Harris, M., Hentati-Sundberg, J., Heubeck, M., Kress, S.W., Langset, M., Lorentsen, S.-H., Major, H.L., Mallory, M., Mellor, M., Miles, W.T.S., Moe, B., Mostello, C., Newell, M., Nisbet, I., Reiertsen, T.K., Rock, J., Shannon, P., Varpe, O., Lewis, S., and Phillimore, A.B. (2022) Variation and correlation in the timing of breeding of North Atlantic seabirds across multiple scales. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13758

2021

Clairbaux, M., Mathewson, P., Porter, W., Fort, J., Strøm, H., Moe, B., Fauchald, P., Descamps, S., Helgason, H.H., Bråthen, V.S., Merkel, B., Anker-Nilssen, T., Bringsvor, I.S., Chastel, O., Christensen-Dalsgaard, S., Danielsen, J., Daunt, F., Dehnhard, N., Erikstad, K.E., Ezhov, A., Gavrilo, M., Krasnov, Y., Langset, M., Lorentsen, S.-H., Newell, M., Olsen, B., Reiertsen, T.K., Systad, G.H., Thórarinsson, T.L., Baran, M., Diamond, A.W., Fayet, A.L., Fitzsimmons, M.G., Frederiksen, M., Gilchrist, H.G., Guilford, T., Huffeldt, N.P., Jessopp, M., Johansen, K.L., Kouwenberg, A.-L., Linnebjerg, J.F., Major, H.L., McFarlaneTranquilla, L., Mallory, M., Merkel, F.R., Montevecchi, W., Mosbech, A., Petersen, A., and Grémillet, D. (2021) North Atlantic winter cyclones starve seabirds. Current Biology 9: 1. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.059

Lefort, K.J, Major, H.L., Bond, A.L., Diamond, A.W., Jones, I.L., Montevecchi, W.A., Provencher, J.F., and Robertson, G.J. (2021) Long-term stability in the volume of Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) eggs in the western North Atlantic. Canadian Journal of Zoology 99: 653-657. doi: 10.1139/cjz-2020-0254

Major, H.L., Durham, S.E., Fana, N., Rivers, J.E., Diamond, A.W. (2021) Contrasting phenological and demographic responses of Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) and Razorbill (Alca torda) to climate change in the Gulf of Maine. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 9: 1. doi: 10.1525/elementa.2021.00033

Nicol-Harper, A., Wood, K.A., Diamond, A.W., Major, H.L., Petersen, A., Tertitski, G., Doncaster, C.P., Izard, T.H., Hilton, G.M. (2021) Vital rate estimates for the Common Eider Somateria mollissima a data-rich exemplar of the seaduck tribe. Ecological Solutions and Evidence 2: e12108. doi: 10.1002/2688-8319.12108

Noel, K., McLellan, N., Gilliland, S., Allard, K.A., Allen, B., Craik, S., Demagny, A., English, M.D., Diamond, A.W., Giroux, J.-F., Hanson, A., Heusmann, H.W., King, L.E., Lepage, C., Major, H.L., McAuley, D., Meattey, D.E., Milton, G.R., Osenkowski, J., Roberts, A., Robertson, G.J., Roy, M.-C., Savoy, L., Sullivan, K., and Mallory, M.L. (2021) Expert opinion on the status of American common eiders Somateria mollissima dresseri in eastern North America. Socio-Ecological Practice Research 3: 153-166. doi: 10.1007/s42532-021-00083-6

2020

Depot, K.M., Scopel, L.C., Kress, S.W., Shannon, P., Diamond, A.W., and Elliott, K.H. (2020). Atlantic Puffin diet reflects haddock and redfish abundance in the Gulf of Maine. Marine Ecology Progress Series 656: 75-87. doi: 10.3354/meps13537

2019

Scopel, L., Diamond, A.W., Kress, S.W., and Shannon, P. (2019). Differing breeding responses of seabirds to a regime shift in prey base in the Gulf of Maine. Marine Ecology Progress Series 626: 177-196. doi: 10.3354/eps13048

Staudinger, M.D. and 25 others including Diamond, A.W. (2019). It's about time: a synthesis of changing phenology in the Gulf of Maine ecosystem. Fisheries Oceanography 2019: 1-34. doi: 10.111/fog.12429

Symons, S.C. and Diamond, A.W. (2019). Short-term GPS tag attachment disrupts chick feeding by Atlantic Puffins Fratercula arctica and Razorbills Alca torda. Bird Study 66(1): 53-63. doi: 10.1080/00063657.2019.1612850

2018

Dunning, J., Diamond, A.W., Christmas, S.E., Hanley, D., Cole, E.-L., Holberton, R., Jackson, H.J. and Kelly, K.G. (2018). Photoluminescence in the bill of the Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica. Bird Study 65(4): 570–573. doi: 10.1080/00063657.2018.1563771

Keogan et al., (2018). Global phenological insensitivity to shifting ocean temperatures among seabirds. Nature Climate Change 8: 313-318. doi: 10.1038/s41558-018-0115-z

Pratte, I., Broadway, K.A., Diamond, A.W., and Mallory, M.L. (2018). Changes in isotopic niches across stages of the annual cycle in the Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea). Arctic 71(3): 259-268. doi: 10.14430/arctic4731

Scopel, L.C. and A.W. Diamond. (2018). Predation and food-weather interactions drive colony collapse in a managed metapopulation of Arctic Terns (Sterna paradisaea). Canadian Journal of Zoology 96(1): 13-22. doi: 10.1139/cjz-2016-0281

Scopel, L.C, Diamond, A.W., Kress, S.W. and Shannon, P. (2018). Seabird diets as bioindicators of Atlantic herring stock size: a new tool for ecosystem-based fisheries management. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75(8): 1215-1229. doi: 10.1139/cjfas-2017-0140

2017

Fayet et al., (2017). Ocean-drivers of migration strategies and their influence on population breeding performance in a declining seabird,Current Biology 27: 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.11.009

Mallory M.L., Boadway K.A., Davis S.E., Maftei M. and Diamond A.W. (2017). Breeding biology of Arctic Terns (Sterna paradisaea) in the Canadian High Arctic. Polar Biology 40(8): 1515-1525. doi: 10.1007/s00300-016-2072-1.

Scopel, L.C. and Diamond, A.W. (2017). The case for lethal control of gulls on seabird colonies. Journal of Wildlife Management 81(4): 572-580. doi: 10.1002/jwmg.21233.

2016

Bond, A.L. & Diamond, A.W. (2016). Aberrant colouration in Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica), Common Murre (Uria aalge), and Thick-billed Murre (U. lomvia) from Atlantic Canada. Canadian Field-Naturalist 130(2): 140-145.

Bond, A.L., Standen, R.A., Diamond A.W. & Hobson, K.A. (2016). Sexual size dimorphism and discriminant functions for predicting sex of Atlantic Puffins Fratercula arctica. Journal of Ornithology 157: 875-883.

Diamond, A.W. and Otorowski, C. (2016). Discriminating between Eggs of Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) and Great Black-backed Gulls (L. marinus) in eastern Canada. Waterbirds 39 (Special Publication 1): 269-277.

Robertson, G.J, Roul, S., Allard, K.A., Pekarik, C., Lavoie,R., Ellis, J., Perlut, N., Diamond, A. W., Benjamin, N., Ronconi, R.A., Gilliland, S.G. and Veitch, B.G. (2016). Morphological variation among Great Black-backed Gulls and Herring Gulls in eastern North America. Waterbirds 39 (Special Publication 1): 253-268.

2015

Kelly, K.G., Diamond, A.W., Holberton, R.L., and Bowser, A.K. (2015). Researchers handling of incubating Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) has no effect on reproductive success. Marine Ornithology 43: 77-82.

2014

Breton, A., and Diamond, A.W. (2014). Annual survival of adult Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) is positively correlated with Herring (Clupea harengus) availability. Ibis 156: 35–47.

2013

Bowser, K.A., Diamond, A.W., and Addison, J. A. (2013). From Puffins to Plankton: A DNA-Based Analysis of a Seabird Food Chain in the Northern Gulf of Maine. PLOS ONE 8(12): e83152.

2012

Diamond, A.W. (2012). Managing for migrants. pp. 311–320 in Stephenson, R.L., Annala, J.H., Runge, J.A. and Hall-Arber, M. (eds.) Advancing an ecosystem approach in the Gulf of Maine. American Fisheries Society Symposium 79. Amer. Fisheries Soc., Bethesda, MD.

2011

Bond, A.L. and Diamond, A.W. (2011). Recent Bayesian stable-isotope mixing models are highly sensitive to variation in discrimination factors. Ecological Applications 21(4): 1017-1023.

Dunn, E.H., Brewer, A.D., Diamond, A.W., Woodsworth, E.J. and Collins, B.T. (2011). Canadian Atlas of Bird Banding. Vol.4: Shorebirds, 1921-1995. Canadian Wildlife Service Special Publication, Ottawa. 116pp.

Friars, K.A. and Diamond, A.W. (2011). Predicting the sex of Atlantic Puffins, Fratercula arctica, by discriminant analysis. Waterbirds 34(3): 304-311.

2010

Bond, A.L. and Diamond, A.W. (2010 ). Nutrient allocation for egg production in six Atlantic seabirds. Canadian Journal of Zoology 88(11): 1095-1102.

Clarke, T.C., Diamond, A.W. and Chardine, J.W. (2010). Origin of Canadian Razorbills (Alca torda) wintering in the outer Bay of Fundy confirmed by radio-tracking. Waterbirds 33(4): 541-545.

2009

Bond, A.L, and Diamond, A.W. (2009). Total and methyl mercury concentrations in seabird feathers and eggs. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 56(2): 286-291.

Dunn, E.H., Brewer, D., Diamond, A.W., Woodsworth, E.J., and Collins, B.T. (2009). Canadian Atlas of Bird Banding. Vol.3: Raptors and Waterbirds, 1921-1995. Canadian Wildlife Service Special Publication, Ottawa. 202pp.

Gaston, A.J., Bertram, D.F., Boyne, A.W., Chardine, J.W., Davoren,G., Diamond, A.W., Hedd, A., Montevecchi, W.A., Hipfner, J.M., Lemon, M.J.F., Mallory, M.L., Rail, J.-F., and Robertson, G.R. (2009). Changes in Canadian seabird populations and ecology since 1970 in relation to changes in oceanography and food webs. Environmental Reviews 17: 267-286. doi:10.1139/A09-013.

Lavers, J.L., Jones, I.L., Robertson, G.R., and Diamond, A.W. (2009). Contrasting population trends at two Razorbill colonies in Atlantic Canada: additive effects of fox predation and hunting mortality? Avian Conservation and Ecology 4(2): 3.

Pre-2009

Blinn, B.M., Diamond, A.W., and Hamilton, D.J. (2008). Factors Affecting Selection of Brood-rearing Habitat by Common Eiders (Somateria mollissima) in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. Waterbirds 31(4), 520-529.

Bond, A.L. and Diamond, A.W. (2008). High within-individual variation in total mercury concentration in seabird feathers. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 27(11), 2375-2377.

Devlin, C.M., Diamond, A.W., Kress, S.W., Hall, C.S. and Welch, L. (2008). Breeding dispersal and survival of Arctic Terns in the Gulf of Maine. Auk 125(4), 1-9.

Diamond, A. (2008). Bird research in the ACWERN lab at the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick. Forestry Chronicle 84(4), 548-552.

Goodale, M. W., D. C. Evers, S. E. Meirzykowski, A. L. Bond, N. M. Burgess, C. I. Otorowski, L. J. Welch, C. S. Hall, J. C. Ellis, R. B. Allen, A. W. Diamond, S. W. Kress, and R. J. Taylor. (2008). Marine foraging birds as bioindicators of mercury in the Gulf of Maine. EcoHealth 5, 409-425.

Lavers, J.L., Jones, I.L. and Diamond, A.W. (2008). Age of first return and breeding of Razorbills (Alca torda) on the Gannet Islands, Labrador and Machias Seal Island, New Brunswick. Waterbirds 31(1), 30-34.

Lavers, J.L., Jones, I.L., Diamond, A.W. and Robertson, G.R. (2008). Annual survival of Atlantic Canadian Razorbills (Alca torda) varies with ocean climate indices. Canadian Journal of Zoology 86, 51-61.

Bond, A.L and Diamond, A.W. (2007). Abandoned seabird eggs as a calcium source for terrestrial gastropods. Canadian Field-Naturalist 121(4), 433-435.

Diamond, A.W., Fayad, V.C. and McKinley, P.S. (2007). Ipecac: an improved emetic for wild birds. Journal of Field Ornithology 78(4), 436-439.

Lavers, J.L., Jones, I.L., and Diamond, A.W. (2007). Natal and breeding dispersal of Razorbills (Alca torda) in eastern North Americas. Waterbirds 30(4), 588-594.

Blinn, B.M., Violette, V. and Diamond, A.W. (2006). Osprey, Pandion haliaetus, depredates Common Eider, Somateria mollissima, duckling. Canadian Field-Naturalist 120(2), 236-237.

Breton, A.R., Diamond, A.W. and Kress, S.W. (2006). Encounter, survival, and movement probabilities from an Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) Metapopulation. Ecological Monographs 76(1), 133-149.

Breton, A.R., Diamond, A.W. and Kress, S.W. (2006). Surface wear on incoloy and darvic bands applied to Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) adults and chicks. Journal of Field Ornithology 77(2), 111-119.

Huettmann, F. and Diamond, A.W. (2006). Large-scale effects on the spatial distribution of seabirds in the Northwest Atlantic.Landscape Ecology 21, 1089-1108.

Breton, A., Diamond, A.W. and Kress, S. (2005). Adult survival rates of Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) at two colonies in the Gulf of Maine. Auk 112(3), 773-782.

Huettmann, F., Diamond, A.W., Dalzell, B. and MacIntosh,K. (2005). Winter distribution, ecology and movements of Razorbills Alca torda and other auks in the Outer Bay of Fundy, Atlantic Canada. Marine Ornithology 33, 161-171.

Devlin, C.M., Diamond, A.W. and Saunders, G.W. (2004 ). Sexing Arctic Terns (Sterna paradisaea) in the field and laboratory.Waterbirds 27(3), 314-320.

Diamond, A.W. and Devlin, C.M. (2003). Seabirds as indicators of changes in marine ecosystems: ecological monitoring on Machias Seal Island. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 88, 153-175.

Grecian, V.D., Diamond, A.W. and Chardine, J.W. (2003). Sexing Razorbills, Alca torda breeding at Machias Seal Island using discriminant function analysis. Atlantic Seabirds 5(2), 73-81.

Lowther, P., Diamond, A.W., Kress, S. and Robertson, G.R. (2002). Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica). Birds of North America No. 709.

Chapdelaine, G., Diamond, A.W., Elliot, R.D. and Robertson, G.J. (2001 ). Status and population trends of the Razorbill in North America. Canadian Wildlife Service Occasional Paper No. 105.

Huettmann F., Diamond A.W. (2001 ). Seabird colony locations and environmental determination of seabird distribution: A spatially explicit seabird breeding model in the Northwest Atlantic. Ecological Modelling 141, 261-298.

Huettmann, F., and Diamond, A.W. (2001). Using PCA Scores to classify species communities: an example using seabird classifications at sea. Journal of Applied Statistics 28(7), 843 -853.

Kehoe, P. and Diamond, A.W. (2001). Increases and expansion of the New Brunswick breeding population of Black-legged Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla). Canadian Field-Naturalist 115 (2), 349-350.

Huettmann, F., Diamond, A.W. (2000). Seabird migration in the Canadian North Atlantic: moulting locations and movement patterns of immatures. Canadian Journal of Zoology 78, 624-647.

Mawhinney, K. and Diamond, A.W. (1999). Sex determination of Great Black-backed Gulls using morphometric characters. Journal of Field Ornithology 70(2), 206-210.

Mawhinney, K. and Diamond, A.W. (1999 ). Using mark-recapture ratios of radio-transmitters to improve estimates of gull predation on eider ducklings. Condor 101(4), 824-831.

Mawhinney, K. Diamond, A.W., Kehoe, P. and Benjamin, N. (1999). Status and productivity of Common Eiders in relation to the status of Great Black-backed Gulls and Herring Gulls in the southern Bay of Fundy and northern Gulf of Maine. Waterbirds 22(2), 253-262.

Mawhinney, K., Diamond, A.W. and Kehoe, F.P. (1999). The use of energy reserves by Great Black-backed Gulls during breeding. Canadian Journal of Zoology 77, 1459-1464.

Diamond, A. (1997). The Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Project. Rim of the Gulf: Restoring esutaries & resources (pp. 99-103). Portland, Maine: Island Institute / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.