South America forges ahead with NPOA-Seabirds In 1999, The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) adopted its “International Plan of Action for Reducing Incidental Catch of Seabirds in Longline Fisheries”. The text is available...
Marine Ornithology is a international journal of seabird science and conservation. It is available free electronically, with PDFs of individual papers, at www.marineornithology.org , where the latest issue, Volume 35(2) of 2007, has recently been...
{mosimage} The sub-Antarctic and cool temperate islands of the Southern Ocean all support populations of ACAP-listed species of albatrosses and petrels. A large number of books and booklets has been published since the year 2000 dealing with various...
{mosimage} Many of the islands of the Southern Ocean support populations of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. Here follows a listing of current, formally adopted management plans for various sub -Antarctic and cool-temperate islands and island...
{mosimage} A list of books and monographs published since 1951 on the biology and conservation of albatrosses and petrels follows. Note that books such as field guides and hand books with a greater taxonomic coverage than members of the Order...
{mosimage} CCAMLR Science (ISSN 1023-4063) is the annual peer-reviewed Journal of the Scientific Committee and the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( www.ccamlr.org ). Volume 15 for 2008 contains three papers that...
{mosimage} The R.S. Africana sails today from Cape Town for the sub-Antarctic with a multi-disciplinary team aboard to survey the birds, seals, invertebrates and alien plants of uninhabited and rarely-visited Prince Edward Island over a planned...
{mosimage} The latest issue of the international journal Marine Ornithology (Vol. 28, No. 2 of 2008) is now available online ( click here for the Table of Contents and to access PDFs of individual papers). Two papers in the issue give information on...
{mosimage} New Zealand’s Department of Conservation /Te Papa Atawhai publishes DOC Research & Development Series. Each year several titles cover research conducted on ACAP-listed species. Go to...
The Washington Sea Grant Program ( WSG ) based at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA sponsors research that aims to maximize the productive use of marine resources while preserving and helping to restore the essential qualities of a healthy...
The North Pacific Ocean contains an area the size of the continental United States covered in plastic debris. The highly mobile Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis , which forages throughout the North Pacific, is quickly becoming the poster child...
Two recent publications in the African Journal of Marine Science quantify seabird bycatch in southern African longline fisheries. The details below have been summarized from the papers' abstracts. The two publications emanate from Dr Samantha...
South Africa's Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean are an important locality for a total of nine regularly breeding ACAP-listed species. The results of a recent survey of the seven surface-nesting ACAP species have now been published in...
Visits to colonies of breeding mollymawk albatrosses sometimes turn up unexpected records of vagrant species. A recent publication reports an adult Salvin's Albatross Thalassarche salvini ashore in October 2008 on Gough Island in the South Atlantic -...
South African research on ACAP-listed species is primarily carried out at two island groups, South Africa's Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean and the United Kingdom's Tristan da Cunha Group in the South Atlantic. At the former research...
The Australian Antarctic Division ( AAD ) has this summer set up two automatic cameras on Hawker Island, an Antarctic Specially Protected Area ( No. 167 ) in Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica, to monitor the breeding activity of a colony of...
Writing in Notornis , journal of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand, P.A. Fraser reports sighting over 1200 Westland Petrels Procellaria westlandica , many in primary moult, in November 2005 among the fjords and channels of southern Chile. With...
Individual "mollymawk" albatrosses of the genus Thalassarche are occasionally recorded ashore, and even attempting to breed, within colonies of species of the same genus outside their normal breeding ranges ( click here for a review ). Here is a photo...
Biennially-breeding albatrosses skip breeding years which violates assumptions of the usually-used methods of mark-recapture modelling, leading to incorrect annual survival figures. In a paper published in 2009 in the ornithological journal Auk , the...
There are far more species of albatrosses and petrels of the order Procellariiformes in the southern hemisphere than in the north. This holds true for ACAP-listed species, with only three of the 29 listed albatrosses and petrels occurring in the...
