Albatross is endemic to the Tristan Group, with the main population of 1400-1800 annually breeding pairs occurring on Gough Island - where they remain seriously at risk to attacks from "killer mice" Mus musculus . With thanks to Katrine Herian and...
da Cunha Group. Ibis 99: 545-586 . Richardson, M.E. 1984. Aspects of the ornithology of the Tristan da Cunha Group and Gough Island, 1972 - 1974. Cormorant 12: 123-201. Tristan Island Government 2006. Tristan da Cunha Biodiversity Action Plan . 53 pp. +...
The near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island suffers annually from fatal attacks on its chicks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus. Click here to watch a graphic video of one such night-time attack...
including abstracts of and links to all the most recent scientific publications onthe bird. A Tristan Albatross displays on Gough Island. Photograph by Andrea Angel/Ross Wanless As well as at www.acap.aq/latest-news/ , ACAP news items can be sourced via...
Elliott Hazen, Rob Suryan and Yutaka Watanuki." Click here for more details. Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses breeding on Gough Island in a long-term study colony John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 1 May 2012
big and small!) can be made to this very worthy cause. The potential problem: House Mice attack a Tristan Albatross chick on Gough Island For more infiomation click here . John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 14 May 2012
) and colleagues have outlined the plight of yet another seabird species preyed upon by "killer mice" Mus musculus on UK's Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Writing on-line in the journal Animal Conservation they show that as well as the Critically...
years it can still touch your soul. You can compare their recording with a 2004 cover . A Tristan Albatross displays on Gough Island Photograph by Andrea Angel/Ross Wanless John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 8 June 2102
and (for the southern species) on the Antarctic Continent. The most northerly breeding locality for the genus currently is Gough Island at 40° 17'S in the South Atlantic where Southern Giant Petrels M. giganteus breed. However, individuals do from time...
fusca at Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean and the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena at Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Sooty Albatross. Photograph by Andrea Angel/Ross Wanless Tristan Albatross. Photograph by...
a plausible mechanism for such variation can be found in epigenetics." An assumed female Tristan Albatross incubating on Gough Island: species or subspecies? Photograph by John Cooper Reference: Penhallurick, J. 2012. The number of albatross...
seabirds: this is a Whie-chinned Petrel Photograph by Nicolas Gasco An update on plans to eradicate the "killer mice" of Gough Island and save the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena is given by Richard Cuthbert, RSPB...
seabird chicks in winter months, including those of ACAP-listed albatrosses and of burrowing petrels, as they have on Gough Island in the South Atlantic and Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. It will also mean that only the introduced feral...
the World Seabird Union . With thanks to Grant Humphries for information. A Tristan Albatross stands over its downy chick on Gough Island John Cooper. ACAP Information Officer, 22 August 2012
del Sur)*. An earlier paper in British Birds describes another important South Atlantic island group, Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island, which has been designated as an IBA. See also http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/ebafactsheet.php?id=86 . A Wndering...
on research conducted on albatrosses and petrels at the Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean and at Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Government, academia and an NGO were all represented with the South African participants coming from...
at Marion Island. Cormorant 17: 27-34 . Richardson, M.E. 1984. Aspects of the ornithology of the Tristan da Cunha Group and Gough Island, 1972-1974. Cormorant 12: 123-201 . Roux, J.-P. 1987. Sooty Albatross Phoebetria fusca breeding in the Kerguelen...
The annual relief of the South African weather station on Gough Island in the South Atlantic commences today with the brand-new Antarctic research and supply ship the m.v. S.A. Agulhas II departing Cape Town on its maiden voyage to the island at 14h00...
It is now well-known that downy chicks of the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses that breed on Gough Island in the South Atlantic are facing nightly onslaughts in winter months from "killer" House Mice that have been...
the world. The patron of the Royal Naval Birdwatching Society is His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh (who has visited Gough Island in the South Atlantic). The RNBWS publishes its journal Sea Swallow each year, as well as a quarterly electronic...
