contrast ACAP-listed Grey Petrels Procellaria cinerea (and other burrowing species) appear to be doing well on Australia's Macquarie Island in the absence of cats and (it is hoped) rodents and rabbits following eradication efforts in the last few years...
the data base for islands that support ACAP-listed albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters I first searched for Australia's Macquarie Island and read that feral cats were eradicated in 2000, that eradication of rabbits is in progress and of rodents is...
The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) continues on its successful way with no European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus seen for nearly a year now - save for one of the dogs finding a "very old mummified" rabbit last month: "October was...
Antarctic Toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni in the Ross Sea and for Patagonian Toothfish D. eleginoides around Australia's Macquarie Island and Heard & McDonald Islands and in the waters of South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)*( click here ). Two more...
Field workers on Australia's sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island have come across two Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses Phoebetria palpebrata that were banded in 1971 as adults, so they are estimated to be at least 45 years old. The news comes from...
alien eradication programmes on sub-Antarctic islands. In the south Pacific it seems increasingly likely that Australia's Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) will succeed in ridding the island of its introduced rabbits and rodents . In...
Norwegian Rats Rattus norvegicus , House Mice Mus musculus and Reindeer Rangifer tarandus (click here ). On Australia's Macquarie Island the post-eradication teams and their specially-trained dogs will continue to search for that last elusive European...
Service ) writing in the latest issue of the Australian Antarctic Magazine has good news on the situation on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island where the efforts to eradicate its introduced mammals continue to be on track. "More than one year after aerial...
with the endemic South Georgia pintail duck producing larger broods of ducklings than previously observed in the area. "Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Projectmanager Keith Springer will join the South Georgia Heritage Trust baiting team in February...
A Bolköw BO-105 drops poison bait during Phase One in 2011 Photograph courtesy of Tony Martin Meanwhile on Australia’s Macquarie Island in the South Pacific there are still no reports of European Rabbits or rodents after its eradication exercise...
The coastal slopes of Macquarie Island , a sub-Antarctic island approximately half way between Australia and Antarctica, are home to seven species of ACAP listed albatrosses and petrels. Macquarie Island is a State Nature Reserve managed by the...
Photograph taken in 1980 by the late Gavin Johnstone In 1980, a male Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans banded at Macquarie Island was sighted on a nest. In January 2001 only a nest mound was found. Whether the species continues to occur on Heard is...
breeding populations of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. These include New Zealand’s Antipodes Island , Australia’s Macquarie Island and the disputed territory of South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)*. Updates for each island follow: Antipodes...
impacts on seabirds; e) environmental and anthropogenic influences on populations status and trends of four species of Macquarie Island albatrosses; f) impacts of climate change on Indian Ocean albatrosses; g) prioritisation tools for evaluating climate...
Guillaume Lapin or just plan Billy Bunny, in any language the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project ( MIPEP ) seems set to succeed. This ambitious multi-year project aims to eradicate three species of introduced mammals from Australia’s...
groups: the Bounty Islands, the Antipodes, the Snares, the Auckland Islands and Campbell Island along with Australia's Macquarie Island.
give the history of the successful eradication of feral Domestic Cats Felis catus from Australia’s sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island , a breeding site for seven species of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. Macquarie at 128 km² is the second-largest...
del Sur)* will join several other sub-Antarctic islands (such as New Zealand’s Campbell and Enderby and Australia’s Macquarie ) as finally free of introduced mammals, leaving their sea and land birds in peace, thoughts will move to where next? It may be...
A whole-island census of Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses Phoebetria palpebrata was undertaken on Australia’s Macquarie Island in November 2013 with 2143 nesting pairs of this biennially-breeding species counted ( click here ). A Light-mantled Sooty...
