REPORT OF THE WORKING GROUP ON SEA-BIRD ECOLOGY (WGSE)

The Working Group on Seabird Ecology (WGSE) met for four days (29 March to 1 April 2005), and was attended by twelve persons from seven countries (Annex 1). Ten persons were nominated members to the group, and two persons were invited by the Working Group Chair to attend this year’s meeting. The possibility to invite persons not yet nominated by national delegates was considered by the group to be a very useful tool. During the meeting WGSE was able to address all terms of reference, though in varying detail and the results are reported here.Term of Reference a) had already been tackled intensively by WGSE at the meeting in March/April 2004. After feedback from Andrew Kenny from CEFAS, UK, it was clear that the work by WGSE has fully developed all available data sets to be used for the REGNS pro-ject. It was therefore decided to not consider this ToR for the 2005 meeting.