A list of books and monographs published on the biology and conservation of albatrosses and petrels (including shearwaters, storm petrels and diving petrels) follows. Note that books such as field guides and handbooks with a greater taxonomic coverage...
on restoration/translocation projects, including on procellariiform seabirds. http://projectpuffin.org/ERU.html . The Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trust Newsletter Electronic newsletter. Latest issue No. 17, February 2016. ISSN 1179-5646....
Bennetts, J.M. 2007. Where's Titi? New Zealand Endangered Species Series Book 3. Emjay Publishing. 21 pp. ( Hutton's Shearwater). http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wheres-Titi-Zealand-Endangered-Species-ebook/dp/B005OGZT8S Bolton, Bill & Shaw, Mark 2011. I Can't...
The Flesh-footed Shearwater Puffinus carnepeis along with several shearwaters of the genus Puffinus and Calonectris has been identified by ACAP as a potential candidate for listing within the Agreement (Cooper & Baker 2008, Cooper 2010). There are two...
"Since 2003 Birds Australia has produced an annual State of Australia's Birds (SOAB) report. The reports collate and disseminate information on trends in bird populations to inform Australians of the status of their birds and help bring about improved...
Currently, the Albatross and Petrel Agreement lists 22 species of albatrosses (family Diomedeidae) and seven petrels of the genera Macronectes and Procellaria . In addition, nine species of shearwaters of the genera Calonectris and Puffinus have been...
The Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trust was formed in 2008 to encourage and promote the conservation, research, public education and sustainable management of Hutton's Shearwater Puffinus huttoni. Hutton's Shearwater is an Endangered seabird endemic...
Alexander Bond ( Department of Biology , Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) and Jennifer Lavers , writing in the Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology , have looked at trace metal levels in the feathers of Flesh-footed...
For hundreds of years seabirds have dominated the ocean environment, soaring over pristine waters in search of productive upwelling areas where fish congregate. However, over the last few decades, these same foraging "hot spots" have contained not only...
The Hutton's Shearwater Puffinus huttoni is a Critically Endangered seabird endemic to the South Island of New Zealand, where it breeds in a few relict colonies (click here). As a consequence the Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trust was formed in...
The Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust was formed in October 2008 to encourage and promote the preservation, conservation, research, public education, and sustainable management of Hutton’s Shearwater Puffinus huttoni, a New Zealand endemic.
Hutton's Shearwater Puffinus huttoni is an Endangered species, endemic to New Zealand, which breeds only near Kaikoura on the mainland of South Island. The Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trust was formed in October 2008 to encourage and promote the...
Flesh-footed Shearwater at sea Photograph by Tim Reid The Flesh-footed Shearwater Puffinus carneipes has been identified as a potential candidate for inclusion within ACAP. It is listed as of Least Concern globally, but has been considered at risk in...
predators. A predator-proof fence was erected to protect an existing peninsular translocation site in 2010 by the Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trust . Translocation and hand-feeding of chicks inot the site was undertaken from 2005 to 2008 and again in...
Jennifer Lavers ( School of Biological Sciences , Monash University, Victoria, Australia) and colleagues have published in the journal Environmental Pollution on plastic loads in fledgling Flesh-footed Shearwaters Puffinus carneipes . The paper’s...
New Zealand is a world leader in developing techniques for and undertaking the translocation of burrowing seabird chicks to create new or restore extinct colonies. Translocation attempts in New Zealand have included such procellariiform species as the...
Lindsay Rowe ( Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trust ) writes in the New Zealand journal Notornis on movements of translocated pre-fledgling Hutton’s Shearwater Puffinus huttoni . The paper’s abstract follows: “Over 100 Hutton’s shearwater ( Puffinus...
Puffinus creatopus , Audubon’s Shearwater P. lherminieri , Great Shearwater P. gravis , Sooty Shearwater P. griseus , Hutton's Shearwater P. huttoni , Christmas Shearwater P. nativitatis , Newell’s Shearwater P. newelli , Black-vented Shearwater P....
and head towards the ocean but can become attracted to the town's street lights. Banded fledgling Lindsay Rowe of the Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trus t said they were flying down from the mountains and ended up on roads or in gardens. "That's the...
levels of genetic similarity between birds from the relict colonies and those of former, widely separated colonies.” Hutton's Shearwater Reference: Hale, M., Harrow, G., Bradfield, P., Cubrinovska, I. & Holdaway, R.N. 2015. Genetic similarity of...