breeding site in the world, a census of incubating Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena was recently conducted as part of Gough Island's long-term population monitoring project. Gough, situated in the South Atlantic, is part of the United Kingdom...
from which the House Mouse Mus musculus has been eradicated. Success will help support the planned eradication of mice on Gough Island in the South Atlantic - where they kill large numbers of Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chicks every year....
giganteus populations. There are very rare at Marion Island, with only a few records, and have never been seen ashore at Gough Island, whereas at more southerly breeding sites they are not uncommon. Details of unusually coloured albatrosses and petrels,...
boost to United Kingdom plans (being led by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) to remove the predatory mice from Gough Island in the South Atlantic ( click here ). The eradication projects underway or planned for islands in the Southern...
on UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs), most of which are oceanic islands. They conclude that the highest priority for action is Gough Island, part of the Tristan da Cunha Group in the South Atlantic, where introduced House Mice Mus musculus continue to...
it could be the type of vessel to fit the ISI vision. For example, eradication of introduced House Mice Mus musculus from Gough Island in the South Atlantic ( click here ) is going to require a vessel of this type (which visits Gough annually to relieve...
Ocean is comprised of four main islands, three of which are not permanently inhabited. Two of these "outer" islands, Gough and Inaccessible, are nature reserves, Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance and together from a single World Heritage...
Recent research on South Atlantic Gough Island is providing insight into the demographics of ACAP-listed Grey Petrels Procellaria cinerea . Threatened both by drowning on fishery longlines and depredation by introduced mammals, the conservation status...
is hoped to post a report or two from the conference to this web site. Unfortunately, I will not be attending, as I sail for Gough Island next week to conduct research on Southern Giant Petrels at the species' most northerly breeding locality. No...
Information Officer) leaves Cape Town this afternoon on the South African Antarctic supply ship, the S.A. Agulhas , for Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Gough Island falls under the administration of Tristan da Cunha, itself part of the United...
of mice (as well as of rabbits and rats) will be made next year, following this year's unsuccessful effort ( click here ). Gough Island in the South Atlantic where mice are ravaging the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross D. dabbenena may be the...
A demographic study of Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus has been started on Gough Island in the South Atlantic, the species' most northerly breeding locality. There are three major breeding sites on the island, and the one closest to the...
White-phase Southern Giant Petrels occur more commonly at high latitudes. Gough Island in the South Atlantic is the most northerly breeding locality for the species and records of white-phase individuals are rare there, mostly seen during winter (Ryan...
During a two-day stopover at the main island of Tristan da Cunha 413 km from Gough Island from 30 September to 2 October 2010 repeated daytime counts were made of Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus attracted by recreational fishing activities...
Yet once more the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island are having a very poor breeding year. Of an estimated 1826 incubating birds in early February 2010 only 406 chicks could be counted this and last month,...
with C51. The bird bearing this band was first banded (with metal band J-06393) as a chick on 2 October 1991 in Gonydale on Gough Island. On 22 February 2007 it was recaptured as an incubating adult in Gonydale when the colour band was added. C51 bred...
Hot on the heels of the news of a colour-banded Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena from Gough Island photographed in Uruguayan waters ( click here ), a report of two colour-banded birds off South Africa on the other side of the South Atlantic has now...
in the North Pacific) to the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus of Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chicks on Gough Island. However, the most serious "predator" of albatrosses and petrels is arguably ourselves, indirectly through longline and trawl...
Albatrosses D. exulans ). A comparison with a large suite of sexed Tristan Albatrosses photographed while incubating on Gough Island over 2007-2009 shows strong similarities in plumage to many of the females, but not to the males which tend to lack such...
Wanless, R.M., Cooper, J., Slabber, M. & Ryan, P.G. 2010. Risk assessment of terrestrially foraging birds on Marion and Gough Islands to primary and secondary poisoning by rodenticides. Wildlife Research 37: 524-530 . With thanks to Ian Hay, Australian...
