Introduction
In February 2013, ACAP Latest News commenced posting a series of brief accounts describing breeding sites of ACAP-listed species. In considering what constitutes a breeding site, differences in conservation management procedures have been taken into account. However, with some exceptions, the usual defining unit has been an individual island. Extinct and translocation sites are also being covered.
A breeding site account usually give information on the following:
The accounts are illustrated with photos usually depicting an overall view, habitat at the breeding site, a breeding colony and close-ups of individual birds.
The site accounts are grouped below by country. Sites within the Antarctic Treaty area (south of 60ºS) and those falling within Disputed Territories are grouped separately. Clicking on a breeding site name in bold will lead to the site account in ACAP Latest News. To date 96 site accounts have been posted. The series is not yet complete with 25 or so sites still to be written up as collaborators can be found. No attempt has yet been made to update existing accounts, although information received will be incorporated on an individual site basis.
McDonald Islands in the Southern Ocean, perhaps the least known ACAP Breeding Site, photograph by Phil Moors
Argentina
ACAP Breeding Site No. 7. Isla Arce, Argentina and its Southern Giant Petrels
Australia
ACAP Breeding Sits No. 18. Albatross Island, Bass Strait, home of Australia’s endemic Shy Albatross
ACAP Breeding Site No. 66. Bishop and Clerk Islets: Australia’s southernmost albatross colony
ACAP Breeding Site No. 21. Heard Island, the only sub-Antarctic island with an active volcano
ACAP Breeding Site No. 19. Macquarie Island, a recovering sub-Antarctic World Heritage Site
ACAP Breeding Site No. 28. Mewstone, where Shy Albatrosses get vertical
Chile
Ecuador
ACAP Breeding Site No. 22. Isla Española, Galápagos Islands, home of the Waved Albatross
ACAP Breeding Site No. 25: La Plata, Ecuador. “A poor person's Galapagos” for Waved Albatrosses
France
ACAP Breeding Site No. 35. île Amsterdam, only home of the Amsterdam Albatross
ACAP Breeding Site No. 38. îles Kerguelen: 300 islands supporting 10 ACAP species
ACAP Breeding Site No. 54. Île de la Possession, Îles Crozet, home of l'Albatros hurleur
ACAP Breeding Site No. 36. île Saint-Paul, with its spectacular flooded crater
Japan
ACAP Breeding Site No. 93. Mukojima, Ogasawara Islands: a Short-tailed Albatross translocation site
ACAP Breeding Site No. 72: Nakodojima, where Black-footed and now Short-tailed Albatrosses breed
ACAP Breeding Site No. 65. Torishima, where Short-tailed Albatrosses have survived both feather collectors and an active volcano
Mexico
New Zealand
ACAP Breeding Site No 57. Adams Island, Auckland Islands: home of the Antipodean Albatross
ACAP Breeding Site No. 82. Auckland Island, where albatrosses are at risk to feral pigs
ACAP Breeding Site, No. 1. The Bounty Islands of New Zealand
ACAP Breeding Site No. 40. Enderby Island, Auckland Island group
ACAP Breeding Site No. 48. Punakaiki, South Island, New Zealand: forest home of the Westland Petrel
ACAP Breeding Site No. 94. Rosemary Rock, New Zealand’s northernmost albatross colony
ACAP Breeding Site No. 15. Snares Islands, New Zealand, home of Buller’s and Salvin’s Albatrosses
ACAP Breeding Site No. 41. Solander Islands, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand
ACAP Breeding Site No. 5. Taiaroa Head/Pukekura, New Zealand, an albatross colony on the mainland
Norway
South Africa
ACAP Breeding Site No. 26. Prince Edward, South Africa’s alien mammal-free sub-Antarctic island
Spain
ACAP Breeding Site No. 83. Las Malgrats, Mallorca, where Balearic Shearwaters breed free from rats
ACAP Breeding Site No. 3. Sa Cella, Mallorca, Balearic Islands: cave home of the Balearic Shearwater
United Kingdom
ACAP Breeding Site No. 2. Inaccessible Island, Tristan da Cunha Group
ACAP Breeding Site No. 4. Nightingale Island, Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic
United States of America
ACAP Breeding Site No. 59. Kuaokala Game Management Area where Laysan Albatrosses breed at altitude
ACAP Breeding Site No. 58. Lehua Island, Hawaii supports Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses
ACAP Breeding Site No. 37. Midway Atoll: Black-footed, Laysan and Short-tailed Albatrosses within a World Heritage Site
Antarctic Treaty area
ACAP Breeding Site No. 39. Frazier Islands, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica
ACAP Breeding Site No. 53. Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands: Southern Giant Petrels in the cold
ACAP Breeding Site No. 31. Giganteus Island, Mac.Robertson Land, East Antarctica
ACAP Breeding Sites No. 17. Hawker Island, East Antarctica, an Antarctic Specially Protected Area
ACAP Breeding Site No. 53. Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands: Southern Giant Petrels in the cold
ACAP Breeding Site No. 88. Penguin Island, South Shetland Islands supports Southern Giant Petrels
ACAP Breeding Site No. 47: Pointe Géologie, Terre Adélie, western Antarctica
Disputed Territories
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)*
ACAP Breeding Site No. 76. Bird Island, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)*
ACAP Breeding Site No. 44. Elephant Jason Island in the South Atlantic
ACAP Breeding Site No. 80. Kidney Island supports White-chinned Petrels and shearwaters
ACAP Breeding Site No. 20. New Island, a wildlife sanctuary in the South Atlantic
ACAP Breeding Site No. 79. Sandy Cay and the World’s largest colony of Southern Giant Petrels
ACAP Breeding Site No. 30. Saunders Island, where Black-browed Albatrosses co-exist with sheep
ACAP Breeding Site No. 45. South Jason Island – at risk to fires
South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)*
South Sandwich Islands (Islas Sandwich del Sur)*
Acknowledgements
Thanks to all those who authored or co-authored accounts and submitted information and photographs.
*A dispute exists++ between the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (Islas Georgias del Sur y Islas Sandwich del Sur) and the surrounding maritime areas.
Last updated 13 May 2021