Chicks of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island in the South Atlantic have been subjected to attacks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus every winter since at least 2000 when the first observations of wounded...
J. Samaniego, (Aves y Conservación & A. Baquero, Equilibro Azul ACAP 12-07 Tracking Juvenile Tristan Albatrosses at Gough Island R. Wanless, BirdLife South Africa, P.G. Ryan, Percy FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa & R....
and colleagues have written in the journal Bird Conservation International on the plight of a suite of burrowing petrels on Gough Island in the South Atlantic thought due to the introduced House Mice Mus musculus . One of the affected species is the...
on this study. For information on the deleterious effects of mice on the burrowing petrels, including the Grey Petrel, of Gough Island click here . Selected references: Berruti, A., Cooper, J. & Newton, I.P. 1995. Morphometrics and breeding biology of...
have published in the journal Antarctic Science of yet more harm being caused by predatory House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island – this time reporting attacks on a further two albatross species, in addition to those reported in ACAP Latest News on...
Islanders but both are now fully protected under the Tristan Conservation Ordinance of 2006. A Grey Petrel in its burrow on Gough Island. Photograph by Kalinka Rexer-Huber It is likely the winter-breeding and ACAP-listed Grey Petrel Procellaria cinerea...
now produced a special strip for the Albatross and Petrel Agreement as illustrated below. It alludes to the "killer mice" of Gough Island that attack chicks of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena every winter. Marc writes of...
in the journal Antarctic Science , report on breeding success and population trends of four ACAP-listed species breeding on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. The paper’s abstract follows: “Several factors threaten populations of albatrosses and giant...
be accepted. Applicants will be advised of the outcome of their applications by 7 February 2014. A Tristan Albatrosschick on Gough Island begs for food Photograph by Andrea Angel/Ross Wanless ACAP Secretariat, 29 October 2013
The annual relief of the South African weather station on Gough Island in the South Atlantic starts tomorrow with the Antarctic research and supply ship the m.v. S.A. Agulhas II departing Cape Town on Thursday the 5th. Gough forms part of the United...
After a 10-day voyage the South African annual relief expedition finally arrived at its destination today: Gough Island in the south Atlantic. The relief of South Africa’s weather station on this British island (part of the United Kingdom’s Overseas...
that the colour band was yellow D75, identifying the bird as coming from the demographic study colony below Low Hump on Gough Island’s west coast. Two days later we landed on Gough and looked up the bird’s details and history. Turns out it is a female...
Another essential step has been taken in the progress towards eradication of the alien House Mouse Mus musculus on Gough Island, home of the Critically Endangered and ACAP-listed Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena . This morning a Bell 212 helicopter...
In October 1982 I set up a small study of ACAP-listed Sooty Albatrosses Phoebetria fusca on Gough Island in the South Atlantic during the annual relief of the South African weather station. With colleagues at the University of Cape Town’s FitzPatrick...
For many years South Africa has leased a small area of land above Transvaal Bay on the United Kingdom’s Gough Island in the South Atlantic to operate a weather station. The station is relieved once a year in September/October, currently by the S.A....
censuses have been undertaken this year of breeding Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena on World Heritage Site Gough Island. This Critically Endangered albatross is threatened with extinction by predatory attacks by Gough’s ‘killer” House Mice Mus...
Last year ACAP Latest News reported on the first complete census of Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus on Gough Island, the species’ most northerly breeding site. A total of 253 incubating birds was counted at four widely-separated localities...
In October 1982 I set up a small study of ACAP-listed Sooty Albatrosses Phoebetria fusca on Gough Island in the South Atlantic during the annual relief of the South African weather station. With colleagues at the University of Cape Town’s FitzPatrick...
Albatrosses and skuas generally make uneasy neighbours. On Gough Island breeding Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses Thalassarche chlororhynchos tend to look up suspiciously when a predatory Tristan Skua Catharacta antarctica hamiltoni flies overhead too...
Mus musculus on chicks of near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena on World Heritage Gough Island must surely now be well known ( click here ). Each year researchers on the island report grievous wounds inflicted by...
