White-phase Southern Giant Petrels occur more commonly at high latitudes. Gough Island in the South Atlantic is the most northerly breeding locality for the species and records of white-phase individuals are rare there, mostly seen during winter (Ryan...
During a two-day stopover at the main island of Tristan da Cunha 413 km from Gough Island from 30 September to 2 October 2010 repeated daytime counts were made of Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus attracted by recreational fishing activities...
Yet once more the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island are having a very poor breeding year. Of an estimated 1826 incubating birds in early February 2010 only 406 chicks could be counted this and last month,...
Although it is known that Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena regularly visit the south-west Atlantic, there are as yet no definite records of the species from Uruguayan waters, with published satellite-tracking data for the species off South...
Hot on the heels of the news of a colour-banded Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena from Gough Island photographed in Uruguayan waters ( click here ), a report of two colour-banded birds off South Africa on the other side of the South Atlantic has now...
Natural and unnatural predators of ACAP-listed species range from sharks (notably of Laysan Phoebastria immutabilis and Black-footed P. nigripes Albatross fledglings in the North Pacific) to the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus of Tristan Albatross...
A great albatross of the genus Diomedea was seen during a Zest for Birds pelagic trip on the m.v. Zest II on 18 September 2010, at a position around 34° 47.5'S, 18° 18.5'E, some 28 nm SSW of Cape Point, Western Cape, South Africa. The bird was in a...
Three island groups, Tristan da Cunha, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)* and South Georgia (Islas Georgia del Sur)*, in the South Atlantic region are breeding range states for 12 of the 29 species currently listd by ACAP, three of which are breeding...
It must now be well known that the Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena and several other seabird species that breed on Gough Island are deleteriously affected by attacks on their chicks by the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus . For news of how...
In 2007 I initiated a demographic study of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. In three chosen areas (Gonydale, the Hummocks and Tafelkop) all the occupied nests were staked during...
The Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena is endemic to the United Kingdom's Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. Practically the whole species' population breeds on Gough Island (where it is seriously at...
It is with sadness that the Albatross and Petrel Agreement reports the passing of Michael John Imber, DSc of Levin, New Zealand on 28 April 2011 at the age of 70 years. Mike Imber had spent a career working with procellariiform seabirds and has...
A long-running research and conservation management project requires two candidates to work on Gough Island in the central South Atlantic Ocean for 13 months, with an additional 1-2 months for training prior to departure. The two 15-month contract...
It is now surely well-known that the introduced House Mice of Gough Island in the South Atlantic are wreaking havoc amongst its birds up to the size of the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena , whose chicks are...
Save Our Species (SOS) is a global coalition initiated by three founding partners (World Conservation Union - IUCN, the Global Environmental Facility and the World Bank) to build a large species conservation fund, supporting on-the-ground field...
Whereas on-going efforts to rid seabird islands of introduced mammalian predators (such as cats and rats) are well known, efforts to eradicate or control alien plants on islands are generally not so well reported. However, plants introduced to islands...
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...
The Tristan da Cunha islands, which include the Gough and Inaccessible Islands World Heritage Site , form part of a United Kingdom Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic. The islands have been in the news this year because of the Oliva oiling...
An Endemic Bird Area ( EBA ) is defined by BirdLife International as an area which encompasses the overlapping breeding ranges of restricted-range species, such that the complete ranges of two or more restricted-range species are entirely included...
Albatrosses have appeared in many poems, probably most famously in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner , written in 1798. Lance Tickell in his book Albatrosses devotes 12 pages to the subject (Chapter 18: The Mariner Syndrome),...
