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

    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 predators,...

    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

    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 and...

    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

    The Pacific Seabird Group has been holding its 40th Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. this week. Abstracts of presented papers (both oral and poster) are available for reading on line . A list of those presentations that consider ACAP-listed...

    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

    The predator-proof fence at Kaena Point on the Hawaiian island of Oahu that was erected in 2011 has already proven a success with improved breeding within it by both ACAP-listed Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters...

    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

    A while back, ACAP Latest News reported on plans to build a second predator-proof fence on the Hawaiian island of Kauai as part of the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge ( click here ). The fence (728 m long to enclose a three-hectare area) aims to...

    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

    Our Shearwaters programme ( SOS ), were offered a pule (prayer) by Kupuna (Elder) Leilani Kaleiohi prior to their release. Newell's Shearwater, photographed by Eric Vanderwerf A Newell's Shearwater fledgling gets released, photographed by Elizabeth Ames...

    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

    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...

    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

    or free-roaming cats.” A feral cat gets caged, photograph by Jerome Legrand Hawaiian Petrel, photograph by Andre Raine Newell's Shearwater, photograph by Eric Vanderwerf Click here for an NGO view of the study. Reference: Lohr, C.A. & Lepczyk, C.A....

    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

    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 created...

    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

    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 release on...

    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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