Over the period 20-26 March 2012 Katrine Herian ( Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Project Officer working with the Tristan Conservation Department) and Lourens Malan visited Inaccessible Island in the Tristan da Cunha Group, travelling from...
The Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos is endemic to the United Kingdom's Tristan da Cunha Islands in the South Atlantic where it is considered to have a conservation status of Endangered . The species breeds on all four...
The near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island suffers annually from fatal attacks on its chicks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus. Click here to watch a graphic video of one such night-time attack...
ACAP is a multilateral agreement which seeks to conserve albatrosses and petrels by coordinating international activity to mitigate known threats to their populations. ACAP came into force in February 2004 and currently has 13 memeber countries and...
The Million Dollar Mouse Campaign to raise sufficient non-governmental funds to eradicate the introduced House Mice Mus musculus on New Zealand's Antipodes Island has now passed one-third of its target, with NZ$ 352 658 raised by 11 May (click here)....
Ross Wanless ( Seabird Division, BirdLife South Africa ) and colleagues have outlined the plight of yet another seabird species preyed upon by "killer mice" Mus musculus on UK's Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Writing on-line in the journal Animal...
Continuing the occasional series of articles on the role albatrosses and petrels have played in the arts, this time we look at music. Fleetwood Mac is a rock band that was formed in 1967 and is still going strong 45 years later, although there have...
The Albatross and Petrel Agreement makes small grants to projects that will assist the Agreement meet its objective of achieving and maintaining a favourable conservation status for albatrosses and petrels. For the 2012 round of grants total funding of...
John Penhallurick, writing on-line and open-access in The Open Ornithology Journal , has considered how many species of albatrosses currently exist. The paper's abstract follows "The basis of the widespread practice of recent years to recognise 23 or...
The Global Seabird Programme of BirdLife International publishes an annual newsletter entitled SeaChange that includes short articles on its activities in helping save seabirds around the World. The latest 12-page issue of SeaChange ( Number 8 , for...
Seabirds.net is a global seabird information network dedicated to the facilitation of data sharing and communication among seabird scientists around the world. The website has now been officially launched and all members of the seabird community...
Andy Clarke ( British Antarctic Survey ) and colleagues, writing in the journal British Birds , have described South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ). "The function of the BirdLife Important Bird Area (IBA) Programme...
Before the journal Marine Ornithology took up its current name it was titled Cormorant for the years 1976 to 1989, during which period 17 issues were published by the African Seabird Group. Articles in nearly all these issues are now newly available...
The annual relief of the South African weather station on Gough Island in the South Atlantic commences today with the brand-new Antarctic research and supply ship the m.v. S.A. Agulhas II departing Cape Town on its maiden voyage to the island at 14h00...
It is now well-known that downy chicks of the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses that breed on Gough Island in the South Atlantic are facing nightly onslaughts in winter months from "killer" House Mice that have been...
A cliff-hanger is properly a suspenseful break in or an end to an entertainment series that is meant to encourage viewers to look out for the sequel; it is said to come from early films when the hero was often left literally hanging over a cliff....
Extra-pair copulations (and in some cases ensuing extra-pair paternity or EPP) have been reported for several species of albatrosses, including Wanderers Diomedea exulans ( click here ), Waved Phoebastria irrorata and Laysan P. immutabilis and several...
Gough Island in the South Atlantic Ocean is the most northerly breeding locality of the Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus . During the annual relief of the South African weather station in September this year on this United Kingdom-owned...
On 1 January 2012 Gough Island field researchers Karen Bourgeois and Sylvain Dromzée came across a Tristan Albatross Dio medea dabbenena chick in the long-term study colony in Gonydale that was behaving unusually. From their report it was stated to be...
Although ACAP-listed Northern Giant Petrels Macronectes halli are regular non-breeding visitors to the inshore waters of the Tristan da Cunha group of islands in the South Atlantic up to now there has only been one record of a bird on land - seen on...
