Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

  • Threatened shearwaters and the Albatross and Petrel Agreement

    New Guinea and Solomon Islands, Vulnerable ), Hutton's P. huttoni (Seaward Kaikoura Range, New Zealand, Endangered ), Newell's P. newelli (Hawaiian Islands, USA, Endangered ) and Townsend's P. auricularis (Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico, Critically...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/24-2011-news-archive/840-threatened-shearwaters-and-the-albatross-and-petrel-agreement
  • (Over) lighting up the place: Hawaii's Newell's Shearwaters are at risk when fledging - and from feral cats

    The internationally Endangered Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli , endemic to the "high islands' of Hawaii, USA, is at risk from alien predators, collisions with power lines and towers, and from artificial lighting which downs especially fledglings....

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/24-2011-news-archive/849-over-lighting-up-the-place-hawaiis-newells-shearwaters-are-at-risk-when-fledging-and-from-feral-cats
  • Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting 2010: abstracts of papers on ACAP-listed albatrosses available on-line

    Holmes, Cathleen Bailey, Fern Duvall, Holly Freifeld, Darcy Hu, Megan Laut, Jay Penniman, Chris Swenson & Lindsay Young. Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli Interannual variation of toppredators and prey abundance on Georges Banks (northwest Atlantic)....

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/24-2011-news-archive/857-pacific-seabird-group-annual-meeting-2010-abstracts-of-papers-on-acap-listed-albatrosses-available-on-line
  • Newell's Shearwater gets needed protection from the Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative

    ( KIUC ) on the USA's Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i has secured an Endangered Species Act ( ESA ) incidental take permit for Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli. The utility will now be implementing mea sures that include removing selected overhead power...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/24-2011-news-archive/916-newells-shearwater-gets-needed-protection-from-the-kauai-island-utility-cooperative
  • Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting, Hawaii, February 2012: session themes and plenary speakers announced

    and Peter Kappes Biology and Conservation of Hawai`i's Endemic Seabirds: Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis and Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli : Helen James and Nick Holmes. Seabirds, Marine Spatial Planning, and Impacts of Renewable Energy...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/24-2011-news-archive/797-pacific-seabird-group-annual-meeting-hawaii-february-2012-session-themes-and-plenary-speakers-announced
  • Lights, wires and predators: the Newell's Shearwaters of Hawaii face several problems

    over 7-11 February 2012. A Special Paper Session on Hawaii endemics included seven presentations on the globally Endangered Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli . This species, endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, is at risk from alien terrestrial...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/57-2012-news-archive/179-lights-wires-and-predators-the-newells-shearwaters-of-hawaii-face-several-problems
  • Hawaiian Birds of the Sea Nā Manu Kai by Robert Shallenberger: a review

    This group includes three species of Puffinus shearwaters: Wedge-tailed P. pacificus , Christmas P. nativitatus and Newell's P. newelli . The last is endemic to the Hawaiian high islands and has a globally threatened status of Endangered due to the...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/57-2012-news-archive/178-hawaiian-birds-of-the-sea-n-manu-kai-by-robert-shallenberger-a-review
  • SECOND UPDATE. Are Kauai's Laysan Albatrosses now at risk to a new alien predator: the Indian Mongoose?

    the island, which is worrying news for Kauai's Laysans and its other threatened breeding seabirds, such as the Endangered Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli - which is already at risk from feral cats ( click here ). See more photos of the trapped...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/57-2012-news-archive/57-are-kauais-laysan-albatrosses-now-at-risk-to-a-new-alien-predator-the-indian-mongoose
  • Research on shearwaters presented at the Fifth International Albatross and Petrel Conference

    Individual consistency in migratory strategies in Atlantic shearwaters and petrels. O4. Adam Griesemer & Nick Holmes: Newell's Shearwater population modelling: what does potential recovery look like? O35. April Hedd, William Montevecchi, Helen Otley &...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/57-2012-news-archive/1244-research-on-shearwaters-presented-at-the-fifth-international-albatross-and-petrel-conference
  • Protecting Hawaii's endemic Newall's Shearwater and Hawaiian Petrel by active conservation efforts

    last year in the journal Bioscience , consider how best to protect Hawaii's threatened avifauna, including the Endangered Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli (Endangered) and Vulnerable Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis. Both Hawaiian-endemic...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1221-protecting-hawaiis-endemic-newalls-shearwater-and-hawaiian-petrel-by-active-conservation-efforts
  • Breeding in the burbs: the Laysan Albatrosses of Kauai's gardens

    the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on Kauai this year. Click here to read about successes with the actively-managed Newell's Shearwaters Puffinus newelli that also breed at Kilauea Point. With thanks to Cathy Granholm and Bob Waid of Princeville...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1229-breeding-in-the-burbs-the-laysan-albatrosses-of-kauais-gardens
  • The Pacific Seabird Group’s 40th Annual Meeting has been hearing about albatrosses and petrels this week

    tenuirostris ] Trevor Joyce: Model-based abundance estimates of the Hawaiian Petrel ( Pterodroma sandwichensis ) and Newell’s Shearwater ( Puffinus newelli ) based on data collected at sea, 1999-2011 Peter Leary:Reproductive success of Laysan and...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1298-the-pacific-seabird-group-s-40th-annual-meeting-has-been-hearing-about-albatrosses-and-petrels-this-week
  • Hawaii’s Laysan Albatrosses to get another predator-proof fence, this time on Kauai

    of Kauai to protect another population of Laysan Albatrosses, and also to serve as a translocation site for the Endangered Newell’s Shearwater Puffinus newelli . “Over the course of several years, approximately 100 shearwaters will be translocated...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1411-hawaii-s-laysan-albatrosses-to-get-another-predator-proof-fence-this-time-on-kauai
  • Helping Laysan Albatrosses and Newell’s Shearwaters in Hawaii: Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project Draft Environmental Assessment now available

    fence (728 m long to enclose a three-hectare area) aims to protect Laysan Albatrosses or mōlī Phoebastria immutabilis and Newell’s Shearwaters or ‘a‘o Puffinus newelli from introduced predators such as feral domestic dogs Canis familiaris and cats Felis...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1519-helping-laysan-albatrosses-and-newell-s-shearwaters-in-hawaii-nihoku-ecosystem-restoration-project-draft-environmental-assessment-now-available
  • A Hawaiian ceremony releases downed Newell’s Shearwaters to sea

    School children from Wilcox Elementary School on the Hawaiian Island of Kaua’i released five fledgling Newell’s Shearwaters or ‘A‘o Puffinus newelli out to sea this month as part of the annual E Ho ‘ opomaika ‘ i ‘ia na Manu ‘A‘o (Cultural Release of...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1543-a-hawaiian-ceremony-releases-downed-newell-s-shearwaters-to-sea
  • UPDATED ACAP Breeding Site No. 58. Lehua Island, Hawaii supports Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses

    estimated 23 000 pairs) on Lehua and the island also holds an important population of Bulwer’s Petrels Bulweria bulwerii. Newell’s Shearwater P. newelli and Madeiran or Band-rumped Storm Petrel Oceanodroma castro have both been confirmed breeding on the...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1600-acap-breeding-site-no-58-lehua-island-hawaii-supports-black-footed-and-laysan-albatrosses
  • The public want to see fewer feral cats: a Hawaiian study where they prey upon the endemic and threatened Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwaters

    in Hawaii, where they are significant predators of Vulnerable Hawaiian Petrels Pterodroma sandwichensis and Endangered Newell’s Shearwaters Puffinus newelli . Both of these burrowing species are endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. Trap-neuter-release (TNR)...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/1652-the-public-want-to-see-fewer-feral-cats-a-hawaiian-study-where-they-prey-upon-the-endemic-and-threatened-hawaiian-petrels-and-newell-s-shearwaters
  • ACAP Breeding Site No. 63. Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, home of a Laysan Albatross population

    Brown S. leucogaster Boobies and Great Frigatebirds Fregata minor are regular visitors (click here). Endemic and Endangered Newell's Shearwaters P. newelli also breed within the refuge in small numbers in a non-public area. The colony was initially...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/1654-acap-breeding-site-no-63-kilauea-point-national-wildlife-refuge-home-of-a-laysan-albatross-population
  • Fluttering Shearwater translocation in New Zealand is a learning experience for Kauai’s Newell’s Shearwaters and Ramsay’s Manx Shearwaters

    to assist with the project and to observe the techniques. This gained knowledge will help guide work with Endangered Newell's Shearwaters P. newelli on Kauai where it is intended to translocate chicks into the to-be-fenced area at Nihoku ( click here )...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/1685-fluttering-shearwater-translocation-in-new-zealand-is-a-learning-experience-for-kauai-s-newell-s-shearwaters-and-ramsay-s-manx-shearwaters
  • Presentations on albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 2014 meeting

    ACAP-listed albatrosses of the North Pacific, as well as on petrels and shearwaters, are listed by authors and title below. Newell's Shearwater, photograph by Eric Vanderwerf Tracy Anderson. Saving Newell's Shearwaters-35 years of rehabilitation and...

    https://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/1702-presentations-on-albatrosses-petrels-and-shearwaters-at-the-pacific-seabird-group-s-2014-meeting

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