Tony Martin’s new book (authored along with “Team Rat”) tells the stirring story of ridding South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* of introduced rodents by aerial bombardment of a thousand square kilometres with 12 500 bags of poison bait from three...
37°E, sub-Antarctic), and Gough (40°S 10°W, cool temperate) islands. Northern giant petrels ( Macronectes halli ) from Marion Island were also studied. Stable isotope ratios of C and N (δ13C and δ15N) were used as dietary tracers of the marine habitat...
performance.” Read a news article on the publication here . A 29-year old male Wandering Albatross and its downy chick on Marion Island, April 2005, photograph by John Cooper Reference: Fay, R., Barbraud, C., Delord, K. & Weimerskirch, H. 2016. Paternal...
on the changing population trends in Sooty Phoebetria fusca and Light-mantled P. palpebrata Albatrosses at South Africa's Marion Island. The paper’s abstract follows: “Sub-Antarctic Marion Island is one of the few islands where both species of...
and is surrounded by a large Marine Protected Area. Because these species breed at only two regional localities ( Marion Island and Prince Edward Island ) they have all been categorized as threatened or Near Threatened. Additionally, although...
Series that considers the feasibility of eradicating introduced House Mice Mus musculus on South Africa’s sub-Antarctic Marion Island . Marion’s mice are now known to be attacking ACAP-listed albatrosses and are thus regarded as a serious threat...
Applications are invited from previously disadvantaged South African citizens for the above full-time MSc research scholarship at the University of Cape Town’s Percy FitzPatrick Institute , a world-renowned, national Centre of Excellence (CoE) in...
as a breeding adult male in the long-term monitoring colony above Macaroni Bay and towards Archway Bay on South Africa’s Marion Island on 22 February 2016 with metal band J-26722 and white colour band Z21. It was last recorded ashore brooding a chick on...
samples, we had a good knowledge of the breeding diets of nearly all the seabirds that are found on sub-Antarctic Marion Island. We could then go on to compare and contrast the diets of sympatric and closely related species pairs, finding out, for...
of behaviour on genetic structure andlesser studied seabirds such as terns and cormorants.” Wandering Albatross and chick, Marion Island, photograph by John Cooper With thanks to Barry Baker. Reference: Munro, K.J. & Burg, T.M. 2017. A review of...
An old male Wandering Albatross and its downy chick at Marion Island Photograph by John Cooper Richard Schodde ( Australian National Wildlife Collection , CSIRO National Research Collections Australia, Canberra. Australia) and colleagues have published...
of body mass on the life history of a monogamous species with bi-parental care.” A Wandering adult guards its chick on Marion Island, Prince Edward Island on the horizon, photograph by John Cooper Read a news item on the paper here . Reference:...
impressively ample distribution that ranges from Argentina to Australia.” The giant petrel was tracked from South Africa’s Marion Island, in the southern Indian Ocean ( click here ). Colour-banded Southern Giant Petrel from Gough Island at sea,...
Peter Ryan , Director of the University of Cape Town’s Percy FitzPatrick Institute , has been awarded the Gilchrist Memorial Medal by the South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research ( SANCOR ). Peter manages the Institute’s research on...
to improve the design of current and future mitigation measures. The year-round movements of white-chinned petrels from Marion Island were investigated with Global Location Sensors (GLS loggers) and GPS loggers. Adult white-chinned petrels undertake...
In 1991, South Africa eradicated feral cats Felis catus on its sub-Antarctic Marion Island , still the largest island in the world, at 290 km², where such has been achieved. Attention then turned to Marion’s remaining introduced mammal, the House Mouse...
The United Kingdom’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) announced last week that the long-awaited attempt to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic is set to take place in 2019 ( click here )....
Professor Peter Ryan , since 2014 Director of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology at South Africa’s University of Cape Town has this month been inducted into UCT's prestigious College of Fellows at a ceremony and dinner held earlier...
introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island in the South Atlantic in 2019 and by South Africa to eradicate mice on Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean in 2020. At both islands mice attack and kill albatrosses and petrels as has been...
Schoombie, S., Schoombie, J. & Ryan, P.G. 2016. ‘Scalping’ of albatross fledglings by introduced mice spreads rapidly at Marion Island. Antarctic Science 28: 73-80 . Duhr-Schultz, M. 2016. From the field. Updates from the Refuge Biology Program. Gooney...
