The Near Threatened Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan of the Mediterranean is one of nine potential candidate shearwaters that have been identified for listing within the Albatross and Petrel Agreement. The EU LIFE Yelkouan Shearwater Project...
The Seabird Group will hold its 11th International Conference next month from 2-4 September at the University of Plymouth in Plymouth, United Kingdom. The programme for the conference is now available on-line . Several oral and poster papers will be...
The United Kingdom was the first country to issue postage stamps - with the famed Penny Black - way back in 1840. So there was no need to print the country name on the stamps, a situation that continues to this day. Similarly, when the Seabird Group...
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...
Over the past 14 month’s field researchers, Ben Dilley and Delia Davis of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology , University of Cape Town, have studied four species of burrowing petrels on South Africa’s Marion Island . Grey Petrel on...
Sandra Hervías (Faculty of Veterinary, University of Murcia, Animal Health Department, Spain) and colleagues publishing in the Journal of Zoology have looked at the diets of both feral and domestic cats Felis catus on Corvo Island in the Portuguese...
New Zealand’s Department of Conservation ( DOC ) is currently undertaking field work on sub-Antarctic Auckland Island this austral summer to inform the planned pest eradication project that aims to rid the island of its feral pigs and cats and House...
Field teams led by New Zealand’s Department of Conservation ( DOC ) have spent four months of the last (2018/19) austral summer on sub-Antarctic Auckland Island conducting work to inform the ambitious pest eradication project that aims to rid the...
