has confirmed that J-26967 was banded as a globally Vulnerable Wandering Albatross D. exulans chick on 23 July 2016 on Marion Island , two years and nine and a half months previously. The Eaglehawk photos show the metal band was on the left leg, which...
project to eradicate introduced House Mice Mus musculus that attack and kill albatrosses and petrels on sub-Antarctic Marion Island ( click here ). Expressions of interest are required from suitably qualified web developers who can undertake updates to...
The short note’s abstract follows: “Accessible colonies of Grey-headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma chicks on Marion Island have been inspected for chicks presenting mouse wounds from 2015, and during these inspections we found several cases of...
and the Shiants (both on the reviewer’s bucket list) and on Skomer , he spent a summer on South Africa’s sub-Antarctic Marion Island , engineered through the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology at the University of Cape Town – where I spent...
reported in ACAP Latest News. Planning and field work is expected to continue towards eradicating mice on South Africa’s Marion Island and on New Zealand’s Auckland Island (along with its feral cats and pigs) in 2020. These, and other pest eradication...
feral cat was seen feeding on the corpse of a Light-mantled Sooty Albatross Phoebastria palpebrata chick on (now cat-free) Marion Island in 1981. Cats have been thought to have killed a number of Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis chicks on the...
The Albatross and Petrel Agreement will be launching World Albatross Day next year on 19 June, with the theme for 2020 of “Eradicating Island Pests”. Up until then, ACAP will concentrate on spreading the word via electronic and printed media to...
both in the southern Indian Ocean. These are France’s Possession Island in the Crozets group, and South Africa’s Marion Island, the larger of the two in the Prince Edward Islands. Both islands are inhabited by teams from their national Antarctic...
likely to be important under global change, exhibiting wide potential for ecosystem analysis.” Wandering Albatrosses on Marion Island, photograph by Marienne de Villiers Reference: Connan, M., Dilley, B.J., Whitehead, T.O., Davies, D., McQuaid, C.D. &...
Marc Parchow Figueiredo, a cartoonist residing in Portugal, has previously drawn special cartoons featuring his iconic Qual Albatroz birds to mark ACAP events (click here). At ACAP’s request he has also produced a three-panel series to mark next year’s...
protecting endangered coastal seabirds (notably the globally Endangered African Penguin Spheniscus demersus), and the Marion Island mouse eradication project. Scalped! A Grey-headed Albatross chick on Marion Island will not survive the overnight attacks...
petrel, actively feeding at its nest whilst incubating. An incubating Northern Giant Petrel feeds on a Salvin's Prion on Marion Island, photograph from Chris Jones The note is dedicated to the memory of David Walton, Antarctic Science’s inaugural and...
petrels, including ACAP-listed and globally Vulnerable White-chinned Petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis, at Marion Island. The paper’s abstract follows: “We compared systematic and random survey techniques to estimate breeding population sizes of...
