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

Department of Maritime Civilizations

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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
Puffinus yelkouan
Yelkouan Shearwater
marine litter
pandemic-related debris
personal protective equipment (PPE)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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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