A WANDERING ALBATROSS GETS A SECOND CHANCE It is common practice to band albatross chicks in long-term demographic study colonies. Most of these birds are not seen again for many years, when they eventually recruit as new breeders to their natal...
of Cape Town, to allow for the purchase of two geo-location loggers for use on albatrosses at South Africa's sub-Antarctic Marion Island. This at-sea tracking programme is being carried out in collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey. These and a...
Thalassarche chrysostoma, and 30 adult Wandering Albatrosses, Diomedea exulans, between 10 April and 30 June 2002 on Marion Island (46°54'S; 37°45'E), Southern Indian Ocean. The Albatrosses fitted with data loggers are from study colonies where...
period spent camping ashore. At the same time a second team will undertake counts of surface-nesting seabirds on nearby Marion Island, working from the weather station and from the eight coastal field huts. The expedition is due back in Cape Town by...
team on sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Island was successfully picked up and transferred to the weather station on nearby Marion Island yesterday afternoon. With good weather in the main, despite some high winds at times leading to a collapsed tent, the...
The author accompanied the annual relief voyage with the South African National Antarctic Programme to sub-Antarctic Marion Island in 2006 as a guest of the Department of Environmental Affairs & Tourism, where she got to see (and hold) Wandering...
April is the month that South Africa conducts the annual relief at its weather/research station on sub-Antarctic Marion Island in the Prince Edward Island Group. This year three research groups are working with ACAP-listed species. The University of...
{mosimage} South African marine ornithologists have now returned from the annual relief expedition to sub-Antarctic Marion Island ( click here for an earlier news item ) and report a successful effort addressed at several ACAP species. After some...
An alphabetical listing of current, formally adopted management plans for breeding sites of ACAP-listed species is given. For several sites earlier management plans have been published, which are now superseded and so are not listed below. Existing...
Albatross (2) SOUTH AFRICA Prince Edward Islands Date of Inscription: 22 May 2007 37 500 ha. Includes the larger Marion Island (46° 54'S, 037° 45'E) and the smaller Prince Edward Island (46° 38'S, 037° 57'E), which are classified as sub-Antarctic and...
several burrowing petrels at Gough Island. We summarize evidence for mouse attacks on albatross chicks at sub-Antarctic Marion Island, where mice are also the only introduced mammal following the eradication of feral cats Felis catus in the early 1990s....
occurring in the South Atlantic. In addition to these three completed surveys, counts of occupied burrows were made at Marion Island during the 2008/09 breeding season by researchers at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town. Along...
effects of different types of pedestrian approaches on the behaviour of breeding Wandering Albatrosses at South Africa's Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. The study showed that frequency of approach did not influence short-term behavioural...
the United Kingdom's Tristan da Cunha Group in the South Atlantic. At the former research activities are concentrated on Marion Island, at the latter on Gough and Inaccessible Islands, in conjunction with partners at the UK's Royal Society for the...
and three colleagues. Data collected at a Grey-headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma study colony at South Africa's Marion Island over the period 1996 to 2006 is used to test new types of multistate models. The study found that annual survival...
Yellow-nosed Albatrosses Thalassarche carteri breed only on the smaller island of Prince Edward, and not on the larger Marion Island. The 2008/09 breeding population has been estimated as 7000 pairs (Ryan et al . 2009). Indian Yellow-nosed Albatrosses...
to visit the island next month as part of the annual relief of the meteorological and research station on the larger Marion Island. Research on ACAP-listed species on Prince Edward over a period of six days (the maximum length of visit allowed for by...
of Cape Town. 198 pp. Wheeler, Mariëtte 2009. The effects of human disturbance on the seabirds and seals at sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Cape Town. pp. 228. Young, Lindsay, C. 2009. Foraging ecology, population genetics and...
number of White-chinned Petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis burrows. Once added to a similar surveyrecently conducted on Marion Island, the Prince Edward Islands will be one of the few breeding localities for this ACAP-listed burrowing petrel where a...
be rare animals. Years ago, I remember seeing a unusual Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans fledgling on South Africa's Marion Island (coincidentally where this story is being written), which instead of being the usual brown chocolate colour, was a...
