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 Pacific Seabird Group will hold its 38th Annual Meeting with the general theme of tropical seabirds on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, USA from 7-10 February 2012. The venue will be the Turtle Bay Resort and Golf Club , situated in a protected bay...
The 39th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group was held on the island of Oahu, Hawaii over 7-11 February 2012. A Special Paper Session on Hawaii endemics included seven presentations on the globally Endangered Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli...
Michael Reed ( Department of Biology, Tufts University , Medford, Massachusetts, USA) and colleagues, writing last year in the journal Bioscience , consider how best to protect Hawaii's threatened avifauna, including the Endangered Newell's Shearwater...
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...
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...
Cheryl Lohr and Christopher Lepczyk ( Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management , University of Hawai'i at Mānoa ) write in the journal Conservation Biology on the public’s views on feral cats Felis catus in Hawaii, where they are...
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...
The 41st Annual General Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group was held in Juneau, Alaska in February this year ( click here ). Abstracts of presentations given at the meeting on ACAP-listed albatrosses of the North Pacific, as well as on petrels and...
UPDATE: Abstracts now available ( click here ). An International Conference on Island Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation ( Island Biology 2014 ) will be held at the University of Hawaii at Manoa , Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA over 7-11 July 2014. A...
The Kauaʻi Endangered Seabird Recovery Project ( KESRP ) is a Hawaiian Division of Forestry and Wildlife project, administered through the Pacific Studies Co-operative Unit of the University of Hawaiʻi. Formed in 2006, the project focuses primarily on...
The Endangered Newell’s Shearwater Puffinus newelli and Vulnerable Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis are both endemic to the USA’s Hawaiian Islands. Kauai is home to 90% of the World’s population of the shearwater, as well as holding important...
Peggy Ostrom ( Department of Zoology, Michigan State University , East Lansing, Michigan, USA) and colleagues have published in the journal Oecologia on variations in hydrogen isotope values in North Pacific albatrosses and petrels. The paper’s...
David Duffy and Paula Capece (Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, Department of Botany , University of Hawai’i Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA) write in the open-access journal Marine Ornithology on the dangers of mongooses preying upon Vulnerable Hawaiian...
The Pacific Seabird Group will be holding its 42nd Annual Meeting next week in San Jose, California, USA, with the theme “A Future for Seabirds”. According to the meeting’s abstract book 10 presentations will be given on the three species of...
The Kauai Endangered Seabird Recovery Project ( KESRP ) has commenced its annual monitoring by radar of nocturnal flights of Endangered Newell's Shearwaters or ‘A'o Puffinus newelli and Vulnerable Hawaiian Petrels or Ua'u Pterodroma sandwichensis at...
T he Kauai Endangered Seabird Recovery Project ( KESRP ) has turned to lasers in an effort to halt Endangered Newell’s Shearwaters Puffinus newelli from flying into power lines at night. A shortened version of KERSP’s news report follows. ““We have...
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...
The United States Fish & Wildlife Service is this week to translocate up to 10 chicks of the Vulnerable Hawaiian Petrel or ‘Ua‘u Pterodroma sandvicensis from its montane colonies into a fenced and predator-free site at Nihoku within the Kilauea Point...
The Pacific Seabird Group held its 43rd Annual Meeting at Turtle Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, USA last week. The meeting’s abstract book reveals that a number of presentations dealt with ACAP-listed species - listed below by authors and titles. Subjects covered...
