. Posting of news items to this web site will resume soon after his return in a little over a week's time. John Cooper, at Marion Island, 11 May 2010
Shetland Islands, Antarctic. Mariette Wheeler: The effect of pedestrian approaches on seabirds and seals at sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Later the same month the 25th Ornithological Congress will take place in Campos do Jordão, Brazil over 22-28 August....
to eradicate alien mammals. Regular clean-ups of beached marine debris also take place at South Africa's sub-Antarctic Marion Island, as well as at other islands in the Southern Ocean where ACAP-listed species breed and field workers are present. More...
Once more I am in the sub-Antarctic, back at South Africa's Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Unlike earlier in the year, this time I am here for a week only, continuing with my research into the island group's human history. A short walk...
The demographics of Northern Giant Petrels Macronectes halli have been intensively studied at South Africa's Marion Island since 1974. Each year a complete "round-island" census is undertaken during incubation and late chick-rearing to obtain trend...
Enderby Island at 700 ha still remains the largest island from which the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus has definitely been removed - back in 1993. Enderby is part of New Zealand's Auckland Island group and supports a population of ACAP-listed...
M.N. & Tosh, C.A. 2007. The importance of land-based prey for sympatrically breeding giant petrels at sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Antarctic Science 19: 25-30 . González-Solís, J., Croxall, J.P. & Wood, A.G. 2000. Foraging partitioning between giant...
rational. The focus is rather on the impacts that feral cats (now removed) once had on the burrowing petrels and on Marion Island's ecosystem. In summary the book is a glorious celebration of two extraordinary islands and their astonishing biodiversity....
of 72%. This figure compares favourably with an average breeding success of only 31% (range 17-63%) in study colonies at Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean over the period 1983-1995 (Cooper et al . 2001). Hatching success on Gough this summer is...
accounts of ACAP-listed species, including the following title written about a southern Indian Ocean Wanderer from Marion Island. James, N. & Mackintosh, R. 2009. Allie makes a Difference . Wynberg: Don Nelson Publishers. 104 pp. ISBN 978-1-86806-278-2....
Town's Percy FitzPatrick Institute have reported on the populations of White-chinned Petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis at Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean and of Spectacled Petrels P. conspicillata on Inaccessible Island in the South Atlantic...
The 2011 census of incubating Wandering Albatrosses Diomedea exulans on South Africa's Marion Island was successfully completed over the period 24 January to 18 February, continuing a series of whole-island counts that begun on annual basis in the mid...
It appears attempts to rid islands in the Southern Ocean of introduced mammals are proceeding apace. The feral cats of Marion, Campbell and Macquarie all went some years ago and more recently Campbell's rats were eradicated. Attempts are underway this...
The S.A. Agulhas , S outh Africa's Antarctic research and supply ship, sailed from Cape Town for Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean on Tuesday this week to undertake the annual relief of the newly opened new meteorological/research base at...
thanks from the Pacific Seabird Group web site ( www.pacificseabirdgroup.org ). John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer (on Marion Island), 27 April 2011
On 18 March this year South Africa formally opened a new scientific and weather station on sub-Antarctic Marion Island, part of the southern Indian Ocean's Prince Edward Islands. The state-of-the-art building complex has been constructed over a...
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grasses, Red Top Bent Agrostis gigantea and Couch Grass Elytrigia repens , which have as-yet limited distributions on Marion Island. Several other plant species, including Sagina procumbens and Cerastium fontanum , are deemed to have spread too far...
Richard Cuthbert of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and colleagues report this month in the journal Wildlife Research on the susceptibility to poison bait of the "killer mice" of Gough Island, home of the Critically Endangered Tristan...
Tristan Diomedea dabbenena Albatrosses on Gough Island in the South Atlantic, and the Wandering Albatross D. exulans on Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. A Gonydale Companion The path goes up with little trace/Half hidden by bracken's green...
