Every year Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chicks on Gough Island are attacked and killed by introduced House Mice Mus musculus during winter months when in their early downy stage. As a consequence, breeding success is too low to support the...
a Tristan Albatross by it being banded as Yellow H89/J-14156. It was metal-banded as a chick in the Tafelkop study colony on Gough Island in the South Atlantic on 29 October 2000. It was next recorded as a "loafer" (non-breeding visitor) in the Gonydale...
on Australia's 12 800-ha Macquarie Island ( click here ), the way seems to be opening for an attempt on the mice on 6 800-ha Gough Island in the South Atlantic. A successful eradication on Gough will do much to help save the Critically Endangered...
were the wandering and black-browed albatrosses of South Georgia, and the Atlantic yellow-nosed and Tristan albatrosses of Gough Island. Summary results from the seabird assessment are presented, revealing that ICCAT longline fisheries catch substantial...
After another successful management/research expedition to Gough Island in the South Atlantic, the combined Royal Society for the Protection of Birds/FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town team returns to Cape Town, South Africa this week....
or Gony Diomedea dabbenena is endemic to the Tristan da Cunha island group in the South Atlantic, where it breeds on Gough and Inaccessible Islands, which together form a World Heritage Site. Practically the whole species' population breeds on Gough,...
populations of South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* and the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses D. dabbenena of Gough and Inaccessible Islands in the Tristan da Cunha group. These three populations were identified as priority ones for...
Ronconi holds a Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chick that has been attacked by introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island in 2009 Photograph by Peter Ryan Click here to access ACAP's eradication guidelines for introduced mammals at...
K.J. Campbell, G. Harper, D. Algar, C.C. Hanson, B.S. Keit & S. Robinson Preparations for the eradication of mice from Gough Island: results of bait acceptance trials above ground and around cave systems. R.J. Cuthbert, P. Visser, H. Louw, K....
out to be very good indeed, and the reason why there are none of this species left on Tristan was immediately apparent." Gough Island, December 1955 (Holdgate 1958). Adults at sea, chicks on land: Wandering Albatrosses made a welcome meal Photograph...
some of which do support ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels that are at risk to introduced rodents. A prime example must be Gough Island in the South Atlantic where introduced House Mice Mus musculus continue to wreak havoc among the Critically...
Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus exhibit marked sexual dimorphism. So much so that a study on Gough Island in the South Atlantic (the species' most northerly breeding population) found no overlap in culmen between males and females ( click...
Pollution 75: 289-300 . Muirhead S.J. & Furness, R.W. 1988. Heavy metal concentrations in the tissues of seabirds from Gough Island, South Atlantic Ocean. Marine Pollution Bulletin 16: 278-283 . Thompson, D.R., Furness, R.W. & Lewis, S.A. 1993. Temporal...
Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) project to eradicate the introduced "killer" House Mice Mus musculus mice on Gough Island at a meeting of the UK Overseas Territories Consultative Council on 24 November last year. The funding will be used to...
the hook pod trials in Brazil Click here for news of another grant made by Minister Benyon at the same meeting to help rid Gough Island of its killer mice. With thanks to Stacey Hughes, CITES & International Species Policy Team, Department for...
line weighting as a mitigation measure. Ross also spoke on the plight of the Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island whose chicks are attacked by introduced House Mice Mus musculus . It turns out that whereas the effects on the albatross...
of 43 pages. Citations go up to 2010. I tested coverage of Southern Ocean islands by searching the index for Campbell, Gough, Macquarie and Marion Islands: all places where important eradication exercises have been carried out or are planned. Campbell...
known they alter invertebrate populations. This view changed when it was discovered that House Mice on the United Kingdom's Gough Island are responsible for the deaths of many Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chicks every year. Research and planning...
are no reports of Antipodes mice attacking ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels directly on the Antipodes, as they do on Gough and Marion Islands, it is known that the island's indigenous invertebrates and plants have been affected. You can read more...
click here to access seven Information Papers that are to be considered at the meeting. Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross on Gough Island Photograph by Peter Ryan John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 14 April 2012
