da Cunha. [Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena ]. Eijzenga, Heather. Vegetation change following rabbit eradication on Lehua Island, Hawaiian Islands. [Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis ]. Poncet, Sally, D. Poncet, L. Poncet, D. Christie and D....
The ACAP Secretariat is pleased to announce the safe arrival of its very first ACAP baby. Robin Lehua VanderWerf was born to Lindsay Young, ACAP North Pacific News Correspondent and Eric VanderWerf on 24 June 2010 at 19h39 Hawaii-time. Robin came in at...
and inhabited) Hawaiian Islands. Black-footed Albatrosses have been reported breeding in very small numbers on Lehua Islet, 30 km north of Kauai since at least the 1930s when the first surveys were conducted on the island. There are also recent, but...
female-female Short-tailed Albatross pair ( click here ) was seen alive the next morning. Albatross colonies on Tern Island, Lehua, Kauai and Oahu (including the new predator-proof fence at Ka'ena Point) all survived without any reported damage as did...
Lehua is a small, crescent-shaped island situated a kilometre north of Niʻihau and west of Kauai in the USA’s Hawaiian Islands. The uninhabited 126-ha island is an eroded tuff cone . Views of Lehua Island, bottom two photographs by Eric Vanderwerf...
Hyrenbach, K.D., Gleichman, J.S. & Karnovsky, N.J. 2014. Diving behavior of Wedge-tailed Shearwaters rearing chicks on Lehua Islet. ‘Elepaio 74(4): 1-4 . John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 24 March 2014
Lehua, one of the USA’s Hawaiian Islands, supports small populations of Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan P. immutabilis Albatrosses ( click here ). Wedge-tailed Shearwaters Puffinus pacificus breed in large numbers (an estimated 23 000...
rising sea levels. Besides a few colonies on volcanically active islands in Japan and one colony on the small islet of Lehua near Kauaʻi, breeding Black-footed Albatross are currently restricted to low-lying islands in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands....
News has previously reported on an unsuccessful attempt in 2009 to eradicate introduced rats on the Hawaiian island of Lehua, home for small populations of ACAP-listed Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan P. immutabilis Albatrosses as well as...
UPDATE: Get the whole story from island Conservation's Operation Lehua website. Lehua is a small, crescent-shaped island situated a kilometre off the coast of Kauai in the USA’s Hawaiian Islands. Small numbers of Black-footed Phoebastria nigripe s and...
Lehua is a small, uninhabited island sanctuary in the USA’s Hawaiian chain that supports populations of breeding seabirds, including small numbers of ACAP-listed Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan P. immutabilis Albatrosses ( click here )....
Lehua , at 126 ha, is one of the smallest islands in the USA’s Hawaiian chain. The uninhabited island supports breeding populations of several seabird species, including ACAP-listed Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan P. immutabilis...
annual meeting. The meeting's website lists excursions including “... a unique opportunity to fly to the seabird Islet of Lehua , normally off-limits, and see [the] site of an ambitious rat eradication project, as well as breeding seabirds" and "... a...
the database of the Kaua‘i Endangered Seabird Recovery Project. Data were collected on Kaua‘i and the neighboring islets of Lehua and Moku‘ae‘ae between January 2011 and October 2018 as part of ongoing seabird survey work; 379 Barn Owl depredations were...
Islands ( Cabrera Gran , Conillera , Espalmador , Espartar and Tagomago , Spain), Tristan da Cunha (main island, UK), and Lehua (confirmation of Polynesian Rat Rattus exulans eradication awaited) and Sand Island, Midway Atoll (both USA). Eradication...
of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) recently announced that that the population of invasive Pacific Rats Rattus exulans on Lehua Island “remains extremely low” two years after three aerial applications of the rodenticide Diphacinone in 2017 (click...
