A Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus identified as coming from the Low Hump demographic study colony on Gough Island by the presence of a yellow engraved band on its left leg was photographed landing next to and then attempting to tear open...
, University of Cape Town, South Africa) and colleagues report two Northern Giant Petrels Macronectes halli ashore on Gough Island in the South Atlantic, first records for the island. “Given that NGPs are regular non-breeding visitors to the...
species, mainly in the United Kingdom's Overseas Territories in the South Pacific (Henderson Island) and South Atlantic (Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha). Research will be mainly on threatened seabirds and, to a lesser extent, endemic land birds and...
abstract follows “Introduced House Mice Mus musculus were inadvertently back-loaded to a supply ship from mouse-infested Gough Island in the South Atlantic Ocean before the ship proceeded to place a party ashore on mouse-free Inaccessible Island. It is...
be good news for theplanned attempts to eradicate mice on New Zealand’s Antipodes Island (2000 ha) and the United Kingdom’s Gough Island (6800 ha): both substantially smaller than Macquarie. Click here to read illustrated weekly updates on MIPEP from...
Given that the House Mouse Mus musculus is known to attack and kill the chicks of several species of burrowing petrels on Gough Island in the South Atlantic ( click here ), there must now be concern over the fate of Maud Island’s colonies of burrowing...
Species Research on the non-breeding movements of Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena from Gough Island. The paper’s abstract follows: “The Tristan albatross Diomedea dabbenena is Critically Endangered: > 99% of adults breed at...
in rugged terrain and among sometimes thick vegetation. The species has been monitored via a colour-banded population on Gough Island since 1982. Banding and counts in defined areas have also been undertaken on the main island of Tristan , Inaccessible...
Report. RSPB Research Report 33: 1-36 . Ryan, P.G. (Ed.) 2007. Field Guide to the Animals and Plants of Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island . Newbury: Pisces Publications. 162 pp. Ryan, P.G. 2008. Important Bird Areas: Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island....
preying upon seabirds, including ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels, on Antipodes Island (in contrast to the situation at Gough and Marion Islands), they have apparently had a marked effect on the island’s invertebrates. Antipodean Albatrosses on...
birds in peace, thoughts will move to where next? It may be that before the end of the current decade the United Kingdom’s Gough Island and New Zealand’s Antipodes Island (the latter island’s eradication exercise now scheduled for 2015) will join the...
and population trends. By searching on sites you can find out which ACAP-listed species breed. For instance, by entering Gough Island a table will name the five ACAP-listed species that currently breed. Delving deeper by clicking on the species name...
the species to be its Bird of the Year for 2014 so as to increase publicity of its plight. Tristan Albatross chick on Gough Island, a victim of attacks by mice Photograph by Peter Ryan “Seabirds, and albatrosses in particular, face a variety of daunting...
The successful applications are listed below. Assessing the conservation status of the Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross on Gough Island, Tristan da Cunha; Juliet Vickery, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK; AUD 10 695 Comparative trials of...
other seabirds at South Africa’s Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean and on the Tristan islands, especially Gough and Inaccessible, in the South Atlantic, as well as at sea in the Southern Ocean. His long-term research on the endemic and...
carries two helicopters, will be sought when it conducts the annual relief of the South African meteorological station on Gough Island . During the relief the ship will also visit the main island of Tristan da Cunha . The population figures for each...
and improvement of conservation measures for these highly threatened species.” Colour-banded Tristan Albatross from Gough Island off Uruguay Photograph by Martin Abreu With thanks to Barry Baker for information. Reference: Jiménez, S., Phillips, R.A.,...
has significant implications for (and offers encouragement towards) plans to eradicate mice on the smaller islands of Gough (6400 ha) in the South Atlantic and Antipodes (2025 ha) south of New Zealand. With a pest-free Macca now a reality, biosecurity...
Dena Spatz ( Coastal Conservation Action Lab , Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) and colleagues, writing “early view” in the journal Conservation Biology , have identified islands supporting...
band 9A 69153 was placed on a Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus chick in the monitoring colony below Low Hump on Gough Island’s west coast on 30 November 2013. On 18 May this year Josã Carlos Alonso Ruibal reported the bird to the South...
