First sighting of a pelagic seabird entangled in a disposable COVID-19 facemask in the Mediterranean Sea

Georgios Karris; Ioannis Savva; Eleftherios Kakalis; Kyriaki Bairaktaridou; Chloé Espinosa; Matthew Stephen Smith; Petroula Botsidou; Stamatios Moschous; Marios Dimitrios Voulgaris; Eleni Peppa; Panicos Panayides; Haris Hadjistyllis; Marios Iosifides

doi:10.12681/mms.31918

First sighting of a pelagic seabird entangled in a disposable COVID-19 facemask in the Mediterranean Sea

Georgios Karris, Ioannis Savva, Eleftherios Kakalis, Kyriaki Bairaktaridou, Chloé Espinosa, Matthew Stephen Smith, Petroula Botsidou, Stamatios Moschous, Marios Dimitrios Voulgaris, Eleni Peppa, Panicos Panayides, Haris Hadjistyllis, Marios Iosifides

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Abstract

Seabirds are increasingly recognized as important bio-indicators of marine ecosystems that are useful in assessing environmental disturbance on the marine biota. Over the period 2020-22 and during the first national systematic recording of the sea waters surrounding the Republic of Cyprus, we recorded the spatio-temporal presence, abundance and behaviour of seabirds using the ESAS (European Seabirds At Sea) methodology. Here we present the observation of an accidentally entangled pelagic seabird in COVID-19 material which to the best of our knowledge is the first incident in the Mediterranean Basin.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	50-55
Number of pages	6
Journal	Mediterranean Marine Science
Volume	24
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.31918
State	Published - 2023

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Keywords

Levantine Sea
Marine Birds
Marine Ecosystem
marine litter
pandemic-related debris
personal protective equipment (PPE)
Puffinus yelkouan
Yelkouan Shearwater

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Oceanography
Environmental Engineering
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Aquatic Science

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Karris, G., Savva, I., Kakalis, E., Bairaktaridou, K., Espinosa, C., Smith, M. S., Botsidou, P., Moschous, S., Voulgaris, M. D., Peppa, E., Panayides, P., Hadjistyllis, H., & Iosifides, M. (2023). First sighting of a pelagic seabird entangled in a disposable COVID-19 facemask in the Mediterranean Sea. Mediterranean Marine Science, 24(1), 50-55. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.31918

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First sighting of a pelagic seabird entangled in a disposable COVID-19 facemask in the Mediterranean Sea

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