Status and Trends of Macquarie Island Albatrosses and Giant Petrels: Management and Conservation of Threatened Seabirds The Tasmanian Wildlife Management Branch (DPIPWE) is seeking expressions of interest from personnel interested in being considered...
Three volunteer field technicians are needed from mid-October 2016 to late January 2017 for work on the breeding biology of the Critically Endangered and ACAP-listed Waved Albatross Phoebastria irrorata and on the Nazca Booby Sula granti on Isla...
To date, 82 illustrated accounts of sites which support a breeding population of at least one ACAP-listed species have been posted to ACAP Latest News since February 2013. All known breeding sites for Argentina, Australia, Ecuador, Mexico, Norway and...
The following text come from the Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trust of Kaikoura, New Zealand. “The nationally endangered Hutton's shearwater (Puffinus huttoni) is the only seabird globally to breed in a sub-alpine environment, with the only two...
ACAP Latest News has regularly reported on the parlous state of Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island in the South Atlantic whose downy chicks are attacked and killed by introduced House Mice Mus musculus every year, leading to a low...
Water is planned to be trucked to Taiaroa Head on New Zealand’s Otago Peninsula to help its Endangered Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea sanfordi chicks survive the high temperatures expected from the current El Niño weather conditions. The Otago...
For the last three years ACAP Latest News has been posting illustrated articles in an occasional series that describes the many localities, most of them uninhabited islands, where ACAP-listed albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters breed around the World....
The Vulnerable Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan, a potential candidate for ACAP listing, is endemic to the Mediterranean. Its global status assessment is complicated by the fact that little information exists for the species from Turkey; although...
For every season since 2010 the female-female pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus has returned to the USA’s Kure Atoll in the North-Western Hawaiian Islands to lay eggs (click here). Both birds were banded as chicks so their current...
Regular readers of ACAP Latest News will know of Wisdom the 60-something Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, the oldest known albatross in the World (click here). Wisdom, a female first banded on the USA’s Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in...