Recent research on South Atlantic Gough Island is providing insight into the demographics of ACAP-listed Grey Petrels Procellaria cinerea . Threatened both by drowning on fishery longlines and depredation by introduced mammals, the conservation status...
is hoped to post a report or two from the conference to this web site. Unfortunately, I will not be attending, as I sail for Gough Island next week to conduct research on Southern Giant Petrels at the species' most northerly breeding locality. No...
Information Officer) leaves Cape Town this afternoon on the South African Antarctic supply ship, the S.A. Agulhas , for Gough Island in the South Atlantic. Gough Island falls under the administration of Tristan da Cunha, itself part of the United...
of mice (as well as of rabbits and rats) will be made next year, following this year's unsuccessful effort ( click here ). Gough Island in the South Atlantic where mice are ravaging the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross D. dabbenena may be the...
A demographic study of Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus has been started on Gough Island in the South Atlantic, the species' most northerly breeding locality. There are three major breeding sites on the island, and the one closest to the...
White-phase Southern Giant Petrels occur more commonly at high latitudes. Gough Island in the South Atlantic is the most northerly breeding locality for the species and records of white-phase individuals are rare there, mostly seen during winter (Ryan...
During a two-day stopover at the main island of Tristan da Cunha 413 km from Gough Island from 30 September to 2 October 2010 repeated daytime counts were made of Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus attracted by recreational fishing activities...
Yet once more the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena of Gough Island are having a very poor breeding year. Of an estimated 1826 incubating birds in early February 2010 only 406 chicks could be counted this and last month,...
with C51. The bird bearing this band was first banded (with metal band J-06393) as a chick on 2 October 1991 in Gonydale on Gough Island. On 22 February 2007 it was recaptured as an incubating adult in Gonydale when the colour band was added. C51 bred...
Hot on the heels of the news of a colour-banded Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena from Gough Island photographed in Uruguayan waters ( click here ), a report of two colour-banded birds off South Africa on the other side of the South Atlantic has now...
in the North Pacific) to the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus of Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena chicks on Gough Island. However, the most serious "predator" of albatrosses and petrels is arguably ourselves, indirectly through longline and trawl...
Albatrosses D. exulans ). A comparison with a large suite of sexed Tristan Albatrosses photographed while incubating on Gough Island over 2007-2009 shows strong similarities in plumage to many of the females, but not to the males which tend to lack such...
Wanless, R.M., Cooper, J., Slabber, M. & Ryan, P.G. 2010. Risk assessment of terrestrially foraging birds on Marion and Gough Islands to primary and secondary poisoning by rodenticides. Wildlife Research 37: 524-530 . With thanks to Ian Hay, Australian...
plans for these island groups have been previously published electronically, for the Tristan da Cunha group (including Gough Island) and for the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)* (to access click here ). The third ACAP Implementation Plan for South...
Aves, Procellariiformes), ranging from New Zealand to the Graham Peninsula and Patagonia and also from coastal Antarctica to Gough Island, displays significant geographic variation throughout its range. Six breeding provinces were identified, which show...
It must now be well known that the Tristan Albatrosses Diomedea dabbenena and several other seabird species that breed on Gough Island are deleteriously affected by attacks on their chicks by the introduced House Mouse Mus musculus . For news of how...
In 2007 I initiated a demographic study of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. In three chosen areas (Gonydale, the Hummocks and Tafelkop) all the occupied nests were staked during...
Kingdom's Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. Practically the whole species' population breeds on Gough Island (where it is seriously at risk from introduced mice), with that of the main island of Tristan long extinct. However,...
by the Black-bellied Storm Petrel Fregetta tropica on Prince Edward, the less-visited island of the group. He also visited Gough Island in the South Atlantic with SANAP the same year, looking at the island's suite of burrowing petrels and collecting...
A long-running research and conservation management project requires two candidates to work on Gough Island in the central South Atlantic Ocean for 13 months, with an additional 1-2 months for training prior to departure. The two 15-month contract...
