years it can still touch your soul. You can compare their recording with a 2004 cover . A Tristan Albatross displays on Gough Island Photograph by Andrea Angel/Ross Wanless John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 8 June 2102
and (for the southern species) on the Antarctic Continent. The most northerly breeding locality for the genus currently is Gough Island at 40° 17'S in the South Atlantic where Southern Giant Petrels M. giganteus breed. However, individuals do from time...
fusca at Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean and the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena at Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Sooty Albatross. Photograph by Andrea Angel/Ross Wanless Tristan Albatross. Photograph by...
a plausible mechanism for such variation can be found in epigenetics." An assumed female Tristan Albatross incubating on Gough Island: species or subspecies? Photograph by John Cooper Reference: Penhallurick, J. 2012. The number of albatross...
seabirds: this is a Whie-chinned Petrel Photograph by Nicolas Gasco An update on plans to eradicate the "killer mice" of Gough Island and save the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena is given by Richard Cuthbert, RSPB...
seabird chicks in winter months, including those of ACAP-listed albatrosses and of burrowing petrels, as they have on Gough Island in the South Atlantic and Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. It will also mean that only the introduced feral...
the World Seabird Union . With thanks to Grant Humphries for information. A Tristan Albatross stands over its downy chick on Gough Island John Cooper. ACAP Information Officer, 22 August 2012
del Sur)*. An earlier paper in British Birds describes another important South Atlantic island group, Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island, which has been designated as an IBA. See also http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/ebafactsheet.php?id=86 . A Wndering...
on research conducted on albatrosses and petrels at the Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean and at Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Government, academia and an NGO were all represented with the South African participants coming from...
at Marion Island. Cormorant 17: 27-34 . Richardson, M.E. 1984. Aspects of the ornithology of the Tristan da Cunha Group and Gough Island, 1972-1974. Cormorant 12: 123-201 . Roux, J.-P. 1987. Sooty Albatross Phoebetria fusca breeding in the Kerguelen...
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...
the world. The patron of the Royal Naval Birdwatching Society is His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh (who has visited Gough Island in the South Atlantic). The RNBWS publishes its journal Sea Swallow each year, as well as a quarterly electronic...
over a cliff. Cliff-hanging is also what is needed to study the Sooty Albatrosses Phoebetria fusca on the United Kingdom's Gough Island which mainly breed on the island's coastal cliffs, their nests often overhanging precipitous drops into the cold and...
than do the more southerly-foraging males. While setting up a new demographic study of Sooty Albatrosses Phoebetria fusca on Gough Island last month ( click here) I observed serial extra-pair copulation (EPC) attempts following banding a female (sex...
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...
here for the symposium's six sub-themes, each with an invited lecturer. An Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross incuabtes on Gough Island: within th SCAR area of interest With thanks to Yan Ropert-Courdert for information John Cooper, A CAP Information...
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...
species to see whether there are any untoward visitors. Our fear is that mice are attacking petrel chicks, as they do on Gough Island. Mike reports that the biggest change he noticed on his return to Marion was the dramatic increase in mouse densities....
a Northern Giant Petrel among the breeding Southern Giant Petrels M. giganteus in the study colony below Low Hump on Gough Island. They observed that the bird was nervous compared to the breeding Southerns "fleeing away as we tried to take some...
