a predator-proof fence where they were hand-fed until fledging in an attempt to establish a third breeding colony. Hutton's Shearwater fledgling, photograph by the Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trust Latest news on the translocation exercise is that...
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...
The Seabird Group will hold its 13th International Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland over 6-9 September 2016. Titles and authors of talks and posters are now available on line . Great-headed Albatross, photograph by Mickey Reeves A list of...
South Island is reported to have “wiped away” half of a breeding colony of the Endangered (and locally endemic) Hutton's Shearwater Puffinus huttoni ( click here ). Hutton's Shearwater fledgling, photograph from the Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trust...
Southern Seabird Solutions... United Kingdom Overseas... Chatham Island Taiko Trust SANCCOB Foundation Oceanites The Hutton's Shearwater... Kure Atoll Conservancy Friends of Midway Atoll... National Fish andWildlife... Our Far South The 50º South Trust...
There are two breeding colonies of Hutton's Shearwaters Puffinus huttoni high up in the Seaward Kaikoura Range, 20 km inland from the coastal town of Kaikoura in New Zealand's South Island and several thousand metres above sea level. Following the 7.8-...
The Flesh-footed Shearwater Ardenna carnepeis has been categorised as Near Threatened in the just-released 2016 list of threatened birds by BirdLife International. The up-listing follows a review of the bird’s conservation status and call for comments...
"Snow birds" by Rebekah White in the New Zealand Geographic is a good read. Just click here . Hutton's Shearwater Read earlier postings to ACAP Latest News on New Zealand's endemic and globally Endangered Hutton's Shearwater Puffinus huttoni . Click...
Alan Tennyson and Lara Shepherd ( Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa , Wellington, New Zealand) have published in the Journal of Ornithology on the phylogenetic relationships of the extinct Scarlett’s Shearwater Puffinus spelaeus , finding it was...
in the vicinity of Kaikoura on South Island, took quite a blow after the earthquake last November ( click here ). Hutton's Shearwater fledgling, courtesy of the Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trust Latest news is that aerial photography suggests that...
Subir Sarker ( Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Microbiology , La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) and colleagues have published open access in the journal BMC Genomics on the genome of avian pox virus from two species of shearwaters. The...
News from the Australasian Seabird Group ’s on-line discussion group is that globally Near Threatened Flesh-footed Ardenna carnepeis and Wedge-tailed A. pacifica ( Least Concern ) Shearwaters on Australia’s Lord Howe Island have had a very poor...
Anicee Lombal ( School of Biological Sciences , University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia ) and colleagues have published in the journal Conservation Genetics on genetic differences in two populations of Flesh-footed Shearwaters Ardenna carneipes. The...
control of pig numbers has been undertaken by hunting and trapping near his study colony in the Kowhai Valley. A Hutton's Shearwater at its mountain burrow entrance, photograph by Richard Cuthbert Erica Sommer fits a radio tag to a Stoat, photograph by...
town, especially on misty or foggy nights when they can become disorientated by street lights. Kaikoura lies in the Hutton's Shearwater inland flight path “At this stage it's difficult to tell whether this individual will make it. The head was mauled...
be influential in some areas but could only partly explain the spatial distribution of fallout at this small scale.” Hutton's Shearwater fledgling: at risk to fallout Fallout of Hutton's Shearwaters can lead to mortality on Kaikoura's roads Photographs...
that many of the breeding birds would have been killed in their burrows (see earlier articles in ACAP Latest News ). Hutton's Shearwater outside its burrow Last month the Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust used earthquake assessment funding to send...
mountain colonies. Kaikoura is well lit at night “ This image quite clearly highlights why Kaikoura's endangered Hutton's Shearwaters crash land at night during their flights from the mountains to the sea throughout the breeding season (September to...
The New Zealand NGO, Forest & Bird , is once more holding its annual competition to choose the country’s most popular bird; the competition has been running since 2005. So far no ACAP-listed albatross or petrel has been chosen as New Zealand’s Bird of...
is being carried out by the New Zealand Department of Conservation and the Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust . Hutton's Shearwater breeding valley Hutton's Shearwater in the snow at its breeding locality Photographs courtesy of Wildlife Management...
