Ronconi holds a Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chick that has been attacked by introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island in 2009 Photograph by Peter Ryan Click here to access ACAP's eradication guidelines for introduced mammals at...
K.J. Campbell, G. Harper, D. Algar, C.C. Hanson, B.S. Keit & S. Robinson Preparations for the eradication of mice from Gough Island: results of bait acceptance trials above ground and around cave systems. R.J. Cuthbert, P. Visser, H. Louw, K....
out to be very good indeed, and the reason why there are none of this species left on Tristan was immediately apparent." Gough Island, December 1955 (Holdgate 1958). Adults at sea, chicks on land: Wandering Albatrosses made a welcome meal Photograph...
some of which do support ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels that are at risk to introduced rodents. A prime example must be Gough Island in the South Atlantic where introduced House Mice Mus musculus continue to wreak havoc among the Critically...
Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus exhibit marked sexual dimorphism. So much so that a study on Gough Island in the South Atlantic (the species' most northerly breeding population) found no overlap in culmen between males and females ( click...
Pollution 75: 289-300 . Muirhead S.J. & Furness, R.W. 1988. Heavy metal concentrations in the tissues of seabirds from Gough Island, South Atlantic Ocean. Marine Pollution Bulletin 16: 278-283 . Thompson, D.R., Furness, R.W. & Lewis, S.A. 1993. Temporal...
Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) project to eradicate the introduced "killer" House Mice Mus musculus mice on Gough Island at a meeting of the UK Overseas Territories Consultative Council on 24 November last year. The funding will be used to...
the hook pod trials in Brazil Click here for news of another grant made by Minister Benyon at the same meeting to help rid Gough Island of its killer mice. With thanks to Stacey Hughes, CITES & International Species Policy Team, Department for...
line weighting as a mitigation measure. Ross also spoke on the plight of the Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island whose chicks are attacked by introduced House Mice Mus musculus . It turns out that whereas the effects on the albatross...
of 43 pages. Citations go up to 2010. I tested coverage of Southern Ocean islands by searching the index for Campbell, Gough, Macquarie and Marion Islands: all places where important eradication exercises have been carried out or are planned. Campbell...
known they alter invertebrate populations. This view changed when it was discovered that House Mice on the United Kingdom's Gough Island are responsible for the deaths of many Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chicks every year. Research and planning...
are no reports of Antipodes mice attacking ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels directly on the Antipodes, as they do on Gough and Marion Islands, it is known that the island's indigenous invertebrates and plants have been affected. You can read more...
click here to access seven Information Papers that are to be considered at the meeting. Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross on Gough Island Photograph by Peter Ryan John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 14 April 2012
Albatross is endemic to the Tristan Group, with the main population of 1400-1800 annually breeding pairs occurring on Gough Island - where they remain seriously at risk to attacks from "killer mice" Mus musculus . With thanks to Katrine Herian and...
da Cunha Group. Ibis 99: 545-586 . Richardson, M.E. 1984. Aspects of the ornithology of the Tristan da Cunha Group and Gough Island, 1972 - 1974. Cormorant 12: 123-201. Tristan Island Government 2006. Tristan da Cunha Biodiversity Action Plan . 53 pp. +...
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...
including abstracts of and links to all the most recent scientific publications onthe bird. A Tristan Albatross displays on Gough Island. Photograph by Andrea Angel/Ross Wanless As well as at www.acap.aq/latest-news/ , ACAP news items can be sourced via...
Elliott Hazen, Rob Suryan and Yutaka Watanuki." Click here for more details. Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses breeding on Gough Island in a long-term study colony John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 1 May 2012
big and small!) can be made to this very worthy cause. The potential problem: House Mice attack a Tristan Albatross chick on Gough Island For more infiomation click here . John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 14 May 2012
) 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 Conservation they show that as well as the Critically...
