In this issue: Spain Signs! Micro data loggers - the latest albatross accessory? Genetics and species identification - a breakthrough! New Zealand Workshop: Ground-Breaking Seabird Alliance BirdLife International Spain Signs! The Interim Secretariat...
{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} April is the month that South Africa conducts the annual relief at its weather/research station on sub-Antarctic Marion Island in the Prince Edward Island Group. This year three research groups are working with ACAP-listed species. The...
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...
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...
The S.A. Agulhas , S outh Africa's Antarctic research and supply ship, sailed from Cape Town for Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean on Tuesday this week to undertake the annual relief of the newly opened new meteorological/research base at...
During the 2010/011 breeding season for Black-browed Thalassarche melanophris and Grey-headed T . chrysostoma Albatrosses at the Diego Ramírez Islands, southern Chile, Cristián G. Suazo from the Universidad Austral de Chile (Institute of Ecology and...
The ornithological field assistants currently on South Africa's Marion Island , one of the Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, have been busy this summer. Field workers have been undertaking island-wide counts of ACAP-listed albatrosses...
Petra Quillfeldt ( Vogelwarte Radolfzell , Max-Planck-Institut für Ornithologie, Radolfzell, Germany) and colleagues, writing this year in the Journal of Ornithology , have looked at extra-pair paternity in seabirds. In their review they report its...
Ben Dilley ( Percy FitzPatrick Institute , University of Cape Town, South Africa) and colleagues, writing on-line in the journal Polar Biology , report photographic evidence of Northern Giant Petrels Macronectes halli killing Wandering Albatross...
