the Subantarctic Front and yet fall into SCAR's area of interest include Ile Amsterdam, Ile St. Paul, Macquarie Island and Gough Island." Thus SCAR covers much of the breeding and at-sea ranges of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. John Cooper, ACAP...
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 - photographed immediately adjacent to an incubating Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross T....
Graham Parker and Kalinka Rexer-Huber, originally from New Zealand, are spending a year on Gough Island in the South Atlantic conducting research towards the eventual eradication of the introduced House Mouse - which notoriously attacks Tristan...
da Cunha Group in the South Atlantic. At the former research activities are concentrated on Marion Island, at the latter on Gough and Inaccessible Islands, in conjunction with partners at the UK's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) and...
Albatross. Photograph by Richard Phillips Salvin's Albatross next to an incubating Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross on Gough Island. Photograph by Paul Visser Incubating "shy-type" albatross Thalassarche cauta/steadi on Prince Edward Island with...
The full text of the petition called attention to the serious plight of the Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island in the South Atlantic (part of the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha) whose chicks are...
the southern Indian Ocean (Amsterdam, Iles Crozet, Kerguelen, Prince Edward Islands and St Paul) and in the South Atlantic (Gough, Inaccessible and Sea Lion Islands). Further, Australia is currently working towards registering Heard & McDonald and...
to establish a long-term demographic study of the Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus (an ACAP-listed species) on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. The scholarship, which was established by the RNBWS from a legacy made to it by Captain Davis...
Island Council at a meeting held at the end of last year. Anton was able to visit the main island of Tristan (and outlying Gough Island) last year when he discussed a draft text with the island community ( click here and here for earlier news stories on...
linked to fishing activity. References: Richardson , M.E. 1984. Aspects of the ornithology of the Tristan da Cunha group and Gough Island, 1972-1974. Cormorant 12: 123-201. Ryan, P.G., Glass, N. & Ronconi, R.A. 2011. The plants and birds of Stoltenhoff...
K., Parker, G. & Ryan, P. The impact of invasive house mice and plans for their eradication at the UK Overseas Territory of Gough Island, Tristan da Cunha. [Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena ]. Eijzenga, Heather. Vegetation change following rabbit...
of Antarctic Research 14: 34-35. Imber, M.J. 1983. The lesser petrels of Antipodes Islands with notes from Prince Edward and Gough Islands. Notornis 30: 283-298. Ryan, P.G., Cooper, J., Dyer, B.M., Underhill, L.G., Crawford, R,J.M. & Bester, M.N. 2003....
MSc Thesis, University of Cape Town. Wanless, Ross M. 2007. The impacts of the introduced House Mouse on the seabirds of Gough Island. PhD Thesis, University of Cape Town. 198 pp. Wheeler, Mariëtte 2009. The effects of human disturbance on the seabirds...
breeding site in the world, a census of incubating Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena was recently conducted as part of Gough Island's long-term population monitoring project. Gough, situated in the South Atlantic, is part of the United Kingdom...
from which the House Mouse Mus musculus has been eradicated. Success will help support the planned eradication of mice on Gough Island in the South Atlantic - where they kill large numbers of Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chicks every year....
giganteus populations. There are very rare at Marion Island, with only a few records, and have never been seen ashore at Gough Island, whereas at more southerly breeding sites they are not uncommon. Details of unusually coloured albatrosses and petrels,...
boost to United Kingdom plans (being led by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) to remove the predatory mice from Gough Island in the South Atlantic ( click here ). The eradication projects underway or planned for islands in the Southern...
on UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs), most of which are oceanic islands. They conclude that the highest priority for action is Gough Island, part of the Tristan da Cunha Group in the South Atlantic, where introduced House Mice Mus musculus continue to...
it could be the type of vessel to fit the ISI vision. For example, eradication of introduced House Mice Mus musculus from Gough Island in the South Atlantic ( click here ) is going to require a vessel of this type (which visits Gough annually to relieve...
Ocean is comprised of four main islands, three of which are not permanently inhabited. Two of these "outer" islands, Gough and Inaccessible, are nature reserves, Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance and together from a single World Heritage...
