scoring system from 1 (mostly brown) to 6 (mostly white). Subsequent studies have shown that for Wandering D. exulans , Tristan D. dabbenena , Antipodean D. antipodensis and Amsterdam D. amsterdamensis Albatrosses the smaller females tend to have more...
from S.A. Agulhas , October 2011 Nightingale is part of the United Kingdom’s Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. In front can be seen the islets of Middle and Stoltenhoff . A view of the main island of...
to sea on a single vessel may be a first, still to be verified by Guinness World Records . During the AGM the ACAP-listed Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena was declared as BLSA’s “Bird of the Year” for 2014. The Critically Endangered Tristan...
Gough Island lies approximately 400 km south-east of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean and is part of the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Within its rugged 65 km 2 , this nature reserve,...
A complete-island count of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena was completed during February/March 2013 on the United Kingdom’s Gough Island, part of the Tristan da Cunha group in the South Atlantic. As is now well known...
Chicks of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island in the South Atlantic have been subjected to attacks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus every winter since at least 2000 when the first observations of wounded...
Frere BirdLife International, J. Samaniego, (Aves y Conservación & A. Baquero, Equilibro Azul ACAP 12-07 Tracking Juvenile Tristan Albatrosses at Gough Island R. Wanless, BirdLife South Africa, P.G. Ryan, Percy FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape...
of introduced house mice Mus musculus at Gough Island is known to impact on albatross and petrels, resulting in the Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena and Atlantic Petrel P terodroma incerta being listed as “Critically Endangered” and “Endangered”,...
time reporting attacks on a further two albatross species, in addition to those reported in ACAP Latest News on chicks of Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena every winter. The paper’s abstract follows: “Introduced house mice Mus musculus L. have been...
Gould captured during the early incubation period at their breeding grounds on Inaccessible Island, one of the Tristan da Cunha Islands in the central South Atlantic Ocean. Data on their at-sea distribution was obtained for up to six months. All birds...
The main island of Tristan da Cunha. Photograph by Alison Rothwell The Tristan Archipelago lies in the central South Atlantic approximately 2700 km west of South Africa. It forms part of the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and...
as illustrated below. It alludes to the "killer mice" of Gough Island that attack chicks of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena every winter. Marc writes of his ACAP cartoon: “There is a part “[in the movie The Wizard of Oz]...
colonies, predation from introduced mammals. We undertook population monitoring on Gough Island of three albatross species (Tristan albatross Diomedea dabbenena L., sooty albatross Phoebetria fusca Hilsenberg, Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross...
language will also be accepted. Applicants will be advised of the outcome of their applications by 7 February 2014. A Tristan Albatrosschick on Gough Island begs for food Photograph by Andrea Angel/Ross Wanless ACAP Secretariat, 29 October 2013
Cape Town on Thursday the 5th. Gough forms part of the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. South Africa operates the weather station on Gough under a lease arrangement with the Tristan da Cunha Government...
weather station on this British island (part of the United Kingdom’s Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha) takes place every September-October. As usual, the SANAP (South African National Antarctic Programme) research and...
observed from South Africa’s Antarctic supply and research ship, the m.v. S.A. Agulhas II while at anchor off the island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. The bird was photographed through a 500-mm lens as it flew towards the vessel. Checking...
eradication of the alien House Mouse Mus musculus on Gough Island, home of the Critically Endangered and ACAP-listed Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena . This morning a Bell 212 helicopter of Starlite Aviation flew Bell Laboratories ’ inert non-toxic...
go on looking just the same. Must be a moral in this somewhere… Research on ACAP-listed species on the outer islands of Tristan da Cunha is funded by the UK's Overseas Territories Environment Programme and the Darwin Initiative Programme via the Royal...
Affairs and Mr Christopher Trott, the British Consul General to South Africa on behalf of the Administrator of Tristan da Cunha, who in turn represented the Governor of the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. In terms of...
