those of ACAP-listed albatrosses and of burrowing petrels, as they have on Gough Island in the South Atlantic and Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. It will also mean that only the introduced feral pigs and cats and mice still present on the...
confined to deep, muddy soils, usually on slopes below 200 m, but locally up to 420 m. After correcting for count bias, Marion Island has an estimated 29,900 nests (95 % CI 27,700-32,400). Burrow occupancy rates at the start of the incubation period...
L. Upfold & P.G. Ryan: Trends in numbers breeding and breeding success of southern giant petrels Macronectes giganteus at Marion Island R.J.M. Crawford, A.B. Makhado, B.M. Dyer, L. Upfold & P.G. Ryan: Divergent trends of Phoebetria albatrosses at the...
south; Birds Island summers; Hooked and tangled; and Drawn south again. A Wandering Albatross feeds its large chick on Marion Island Photograph by Genevieve Jones The book launch is to be followed by an exhibition in support of BirdLife International's...
Sub-Antarctic Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean belongs to South Africa. It has been the site of ornithological research on seabirds, including ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels, for over half a century. The following text is taken from the...
is not listed, along with the successful eradication of its domestic pigs and goats. Lastly, I looked for South Africa's Marion Island and found information on the eradication of feral cats (Marion is still the World's largest island at 290 km² from...
The ornithological field assistants currently on South Africa's Marion Island , one of the Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, have been busy this summer. Field workers have been undertaking island-wide counts of ACAP-listed albatrosses...
as suggested for some albatross species, or female cuckoldry." Who's the daddy? Wandering Albatross and chick at Marion Island Photograph by John Cooper More reading: Sexual shenanigans in the sub-Antarctic: Wandering Albatrosses engage in extra-pair...
in Antarctica and science communications are also planned. An old male Wandering Albatross with its downy chick on Marion Island. Photograph by John Cooper Hobart is the home of the Albatross and Petrel Agreement's Secretariat, offering opportunity for...
studies conducted at some other islands (e.g. an average hatching success of only 43% (range 24-63%) over nine years at Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean - click here ). A Southern Giant Petrel attempts to brood its large downy chick on Gough...
of healthy great albatross Diomedea spp. chicks, killing wandering albatrosses D. exulans at night on sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Breeding success of this species has decreased markedly in the area where attacks occurred, suggesting that giant petrel...
not provide a reliable means of estimating age of Wandering Albatrosses, except in very general (3-5 year) categories.” On Marion Island, the larger of the two South African Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, field researchers undertake...
of healthy great albatross Diomedea spp. chicks, killing wandering albatrosses D. exulans at night on sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Breeding success of this species has decreased markedly in the area where attacks occurred, suggesting that giant petrel...
Marthinus van Schalkwyk announced his intention to declare an MPA around the two islands of Marion and Prince Edward. Marion Island (top) and Prince Edward Island on very rare near-cloudless day Photograph taken by NASA satellite on 05 May 2009 The new...
the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands to relieve the year team that runs the weather base and conducts field research on Marion Island. NASA Earth Observer 1 ALI satellite photograph of Marion Island on an unusually near-cloudless day Among the...
NASA Earth Observer 1 ALI satellite photograph Prince Edward Island is the smaller of the two Prince Edward Islands, South African property in the southern Indian Ocean. Unlike its larger neighbour with its year-round weather and research station,...
Marion’s research station, with Junior’s Kop and the snow-covered island interior Photograph by Tara van Niekerk Marion Island is the larger of the two Prince Edward Islands. The South African island group is a Ramsar Wetland of International...
In early 2011 the South African National Antarctic Programme ( SANAP ) research station on sub-Antarctic Marion Island was moved into a newly-completed building complex adjacent and to the north of the old base that had been continuously occupied since...
On departing Marion Island around midday on 9 May, the S.A. Agulhas II sailed across the 19-km gap to the smaller and rarely-visited Prince Edward Island , where it launched one of its two Bell 212 helicopters offshore from Cave Bay in the afternoon....
of African Ornithology , University of Cape Town, have studied four species of burrowing petrels on South Africa’s Marion Island . Grey Petrel on Marion Island. Photograph by Peter Ryan Research has been concentred on two summer-breeding species, the...
