Puffinus gravis O’Reilly chicks at Gough Island, and similar predatory behaviour has been reported for house mice on Marion Island. Observations on Gough Island over three breeding seasons of nesting Atlantic yellow-nosed albatrosses Thalassarche...
Thalassarche chrysostoma : Vulnerable to Endangered. Black-browed Albatross, now be Near Threatened? Photographed on Marion Island by Genevieve Jones It is also proposed following review not to change the status of Amsterdam Albatross Diomedea...
Macronectes Gang and, quite frankly, is a bit of a thug. He causes a near riot one Friday evening in the Tropicalis Inn on Marion Island when Fishy Breath (a fur seal) gets a bit too familiar with the story’s heroine. Wandering Albatrosses Diomedea...
, University of Cape Town) have studied what makes a successful Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans at South Africa’s Marion Island . The paper’s in-press abstract in the journal Emu follows: “To conserve threatened species and understand their...
50 countries. A 28-year old male Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans guards its chick near Prinsloomeer on South Africa's Marion Island on 17 April 2005; the bird was banded as a chick on 2 November 1976 Photograph by John Cooper WSC 2 is supported by...
at 128 km² is the second-largest island from which feral cats have been eradicated, following South Africa’s sub-Antarctic Marion Island (290 km²) in 1991 after a 19-year campaign. Macquarie Island, photograph by Aleks Terauds The paper’s abstract...
seabirds, including ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels, on Antipodes Island (in contrast to the situation at Gough and Marion Islands), they have apparently had a marked effect on the island’s invertebrates. Antipodean Albatrosses on Antipodes Island:...
Indian Ocean Province Islands of the sub-Antarctic, most nutrients are processed through a detritus-based food web. On Marion Island, larvae of the moth Pringleophaga marioni are one of the key decomposers. Abundance of these caterpillars is higher in...
Africa) and colleagues have published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series on diets of three albatross species at Marion Island. The paper’s abstract follows: “A combination of dietary techniques that integrate data on food and feeding habits...
A female Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans carrying British Museum of Natural History band No. 4001481 has been reported by the Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé breeding on Île de la Possession , French Crozet Islands in the southern Indian...
Once more it is time for the annual relief of the meteorological station at Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. South Africa’s new Antarctic supply and research ship, the S.A. Agulhas II , will depart from Cape Town harbour at 14h00 today and...
northerly latitudes than adults.” A banded juvenile Wandering Albatross at sea one month off Australia after fledging from Marion Island Photograph courtesy of Marg Larner With thanks to Marco Barbierifor information. Reference: Åkesson, S. &...
have also been installed on the other side of the World at South Africa’s weather and research station on sub-Antarctic Marion Island. A strict policy of no outside lights, closing of black-out blinds at dusk and switching off unnecessary inside lights...
South Africa’s research st ation at sub-Antarctic Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean is relieved once a year in April-May. Returning today on the S.A. Agulhas II a re two young researchers who have spent the last 13 months studying albatrosses...
species’ diving behaviour. We obtained data from temperature–depth recorders from nine white-chinned petrels breeding on Marion Island, southwestern Indian Ocean, during the late incubation and chick-rearing period. Maximum dive depth (16 m) was...
World-wide, rodents continue to threaten seabirds at their breeding islands, with the House Mice Mus musculus of Gough and Marion Islands that attack albatross and burrowing petrel chicks being significant examples ( click here ). New Zealand has been a...
Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross D . dabbenena of Gough Island and the Vulnerable Wandering Albatross D. exulans of Marion Island are attacked by House Mice leading to deaths as reported previously in ACAP Latest News , and although not yet...
on the effects of age and experience on breeding ability in Wandering Albatrosses Diomedea exulans on South Africa’s Marion Island. The paper’s abstract follows: "Growth and survival of altricial young are influenced by their parents’ abilities to...
which rear their chick through the coming winter to fledge the following year” ( click here ). NorthernGiant Petrel on Marion Island, photograph by Marienne de Villiers On South Africa’s Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean field assistants have...
of management for the archipelago, which have both fisheries and conservation concerns.” Wandering Albatrosses on Marion Island, photograph by Marienne de Villiers Reference: Gurney, L.J., Pakhomov, E.A. & Christensen, V. 2014. An ecosystem model of the...
