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Recovering Grey Petrel population at Macca gets tracked at sea

has reported on research being conducted on the Near Threatened and ACAP-listed Grey Petrel Procellaria cinerea on Macquarie Island, following the successful eradication of the island’s alien mammals ( click here ). The island supports a small...

A cleaned-up Macquarie Island leads to BirdLife Australia down-listing three of its four albatrosses

Species Committee has recognised an improved conservation outlook for eight of the 14 seabird species that breed on Macquarie Island following the success of the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) in eradicating rodents and rabbits (...

Macquarie’s Black-browed Albatrosses get tracked at sea

have added GPS loggers to five globally Near Threaten ed Black-browed Albatrosses Thalassarche melanophris on Australia’s Macquarie Island . The study is being led by marine ornithologist Rachael Alderman of the Tasmanian Department Primary Industries,...

Can Southern Giant Petrels lay two-egg clutches? Evidence from white-phase birds on Macquarie

clutch. The paper's abstract follows: “Females of the order Procellariiformes most often produce single-egg clutches. At Macquarie Island (54°S, 159°E) in 1959 during a field study of Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus , four or five nests...

The ACAP Secretariat moves into a historical sandstone building in Hobart

offices in Salamanca Square immediately behind Hobart’s historic Salamanca Place to closer to the city centre at 119 Macquarie Street . The new offices are on the second floor of the five-level National Mutual Life Building , completed in 1908 and...

PaCSWG4 Inf 02: Non-Target Species Management for the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project. SUMMARY ONLY

Agenda Item 6.1. Keith Springer and Noel Carmichael.

PaCSWG4 Inf 02: Non-Target Species Management for the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project

Agenda Item 6.1. Keith Springer and Noel Carmichael. Please view file in browser set to use Adobe Reader plug-in to view PDFs (not Chrome), or save and open with Adobe Reader to see attachement panel.

PaCSWG4 Inf 01: Rabbit haemorrhagic disease: Macquarie Island rabbit eradication adds to knowledge. SUMMARY ONLY

Agenda Item 6.1 . Brian Cooke et al.

PaCSWG4 Inf 01: Rabbit haemorrhagic disease: Macquarie Island rabbit eradication adds to knowledge on both pest control and epidemiology

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How to study Grey Petrels in the cold: the Macca experience

than one such island it has been proven to be at risk to introduced feral cats or rodents. On Australia’s now pest-free Macquarie Island Grey Petrels have been making a comeback since the last cats were killed. Annual monitoring continues as Penny...

Tracking the at-sea movements of Black-browed Albatrosses on Macquarie Island with GPS

Division , reports on research conducted on globally Near Threatened Black-browed Albatrosses Thalassarche melanophris on Macquarie Island . The shortened article follows: “Scientists successfully deployed miniature GPS loggers on five threatened...

Trained detector dogs to search a sub-Antarctic island in the South Atlantic for rodents this summer after a lengthy eradication campaign

to sniff our rats and mice. "They are hugely experienced in seeking out elusive rodents, having searched sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island and many other locations following eradication attempts." Ahu, rodent detector terrier at work Transferring poison...

Research starts on the introduced mammals of France’s sub-Antarctic Amsterdam Island prior to developing an eradication plan

mammals on many of the Southern Ocean’s sub-Antarctic islands, notably New Zealand’s Campbell Island and Australia’s Macquarie Island among others. For some islands (e.g. New Zealand’s Antipodes ) final results of eradication attempts are still awaited....

Avaunt you swine! Auckland Island pest eradication gets feasibility funding from New Zealand’s Conservation Minister

the sub-Antarctic Snares and Bounty Islands.” In addition Australia has eradicated all the introduced mammalian pests on Macquarie Island that falls within the region (click here for the story of the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ). The new...

Over 9300 km away. A Black-browed Albatross from Macquarie Island is caught and released by a longliner off Chile

A Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris metal (121-A9056) and colour (Red 352) banded as a chick on Macquarie Island on 6 March 2009 was brought aboard alive an industrial longline vessel fishing for Broad-billed Swordfish Xiphias gladius...

Macquarie Island requires two volunteer biologists

The Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife Service ( PWS ) is seeking two volunteers as biologists on Australia’s sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island , breeding home for seven ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. Wandering Albatross chick on Macquarie Island,...

Christine Bogle

Black-browed Albatrosses most at risk to climate change at sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island based on tracking four albatross species

Series on the results of at-sea tracking of the four species of albatrosses that breed at Australia’s sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island . The paper’s abstract follows: “Differences in habitat use of sympatric species is influenced by variability in...

The Way You Fly, an albatross poem by Melanie Wells

Department for Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment monitoring programme on the conservation and status of Macquarie Island’s albatrosses and giant petrels for a year over 2017/18. She went back to‘Macca’ for the 2018/19 summer. She writes:...