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title: "Recent seabird surveys in the Chatham Islands"
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# Recent seabird surveys in the Chatham Islands

*![Bullers Albatrosses Ellyn Bousman Lentz Will you be Mine](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Bullers/Bullers_Albatrosses_Ellyn_Bousman_Lentz_Will_you_be_Mine.jpg)  
“Will you be Mine?”.  Buller's Albatrosses by Ellyn Bousman Lentz, Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature (*[*ABUN*](https://abun4nature.org/)*) for World Albatross Day 2024*

 [Mike Bell of Toroa Consulting](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mike-Bell-4) has produced a final report for the New Zealand Department of Conservation’s Conservation Services Programme ([CSP](http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/marine-and-coastal/commercial-fishing/conservation-services-programme/)) that gives information on recent population surveys and at-sea tracking of four ACAP-listed species on the offshore “albatross islands” of the Chatham Islands.  The species studied were the Chatham Albatross *Thalassarche eremita*, Northern Buller’s Albatross *T. bulleri platei*, Northern Royal Albatross *Diomedea sanfordi* and the Northern Giant Petrel *Macronectes halli.*

 The three islands surveyed were Rangitutahi (The Sisters), Motuhara (The Forty Fours) and Te Tara Koi Koia (The Pyramid).

 **Reference:**

 Bell, M. 2026.  *[Seabird research on the “Albatross Islands” of the Chatham Islands, Aug-Dec 2025](https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets/documents/conservation/marine-and-coastal/marine-conservation-services/reports/202526-annual-plan/chatham-islands-seabird-research-2025-final-report.pdf)*.  Chatham Island, New Zealand.  Toroa Consulting.  20 pp.

 *John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 18 May 2026*