The 6th Regular Session of the Scientific Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission ( WCPFC-SC6 ) was held over the period 10-19 August 2010 in Nukualofa, Tonga. A large number of documents relevant to the conservation of...
The Yelkouan or Mediterranean Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan , endemic to islands in the Mediterranean Sea, has been identified by ACAP as a potential candidate for listing within the Agreement ( click here ). A recent paper, published on-line in the...
The rarest of the North Pacific albatross species, the Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus , has only been documented breeding on islands off Japan, despite increasing sightings of individuals among other albatross colonies in the Hawaiian...
The Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus , endemic to Spanish islands in the Mediterranean Sea ( click here ), has been categorized as Critically Endangered by BirdLife International. The species has also been identified as a potential candidate...
Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea , along with several shearwaters of the genus Puffinus , has been identified by ACAP as a potential candidate for listing within the Albatross and Petrel Agreement ( click here ). A suite of publications emanating...
The Flesh-footed Shearwater Puffinus carnepeis along with several shearwaters of the genus Puffinus and Calonectris has been identified by ACAP as a potential candidate for listing within the Agreement (Cooper & Baker 2008, Cooper 2010). There are two...
The Wedge-tailed Shearwater Puffinus pacificus , along with eight other shearwaters of the genera Puffinus and Calonectris , has been identified as a potential candidate for listing within the Agreement (Cooper & Baker 2008, Cooper 2010). The species...
Both primary and secondary poisoning of non-target species are risks that face pest eradication programmes and require amelioration (e.g. Wanless et al. 2010). For example, spreading poison baits on islands is often carried out during winter months...
The Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris , along with eight other shearwaters of the genus Puffinus and Calonectris , has been identified as a potential candidate for listing within the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatross and Petrels...
It appears that Hawaii is becoming a hot destination for Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus in 2010. Despite numerous sightings of this species in the Hawaiian Archipelago over the last several decades, there are no records (either...
The Near Threatened Cape Verde Shearwater Calonectris edwardsii is endemic to the Cape Verde Islands, off the Atlantic coast of Africa. Along with eight other shearwaters of the genus Puffinus and Calonectris it has been identified by ACAP as a...
Vincent Lecomte has this year been awarded the degree of Docteur de l'Universite de Poitiers for his study of the effects of senescence in two long-lived seabirds, the Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans and the Snow Petrel Pagodroma nivea . The...
The Near Threatened Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan of the Mediterranean is one of nine potential candidate shearwaters that have been identified for listing within the Albatross and Petrel Agreement. The EU LIFE Yelkouan Shearwater Project...
Book Review: Marion and Prince Edward: Africa's Southern Islands, by Aleks Terauds, John Cooper, Steven L. Chown and Peter Ryan, published by SUN PReSS , Stellenbosch 7600, South Africa. ISBN: 978-1-920338-42-8, hard-cover with dust-jacket, full colour...
Leandro Bugoni, Kate Griffiths and Robert Furness publishing on-line in the Journal of Ornithology have looked at skewed sex ratios in albatrosses and petrels killed by longline fisheries. The paper's abstract follows: "Skewed adult sex ratio (ASR) has...
The 2011 census of incubating Wandering Albatrosses Diomedea exulans on South Africa's Marion Island was successfully completed over the period 24 January to 18 February, continuing a series of whole-island counts that begun on annual basis in the mid...
The following dramatic story of survival of the USA's first-ever Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus chick comes from John Klavitter, writing from the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge , part of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine Nationa l...
Whole-island counts of breeding albatrosses and giant petrels are made annually at South Africa's Marion Island , one of the Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean. For some species counts are made at both incubation and large-chick times,...
The South African Department of Environmental Affairs has this week released a conservation handbook for the Prince Edward Islands, a Special Nature Reserve and a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance in the southern Indian Ocean. The booklet was...
In January this year the charter motor yacht Golden Fleece travelled to the little-visited South Sandwich Islands (Islas Sandwich del Sur)* in the maritime Antarctic to undertake seabird and marine mammal surveys ( click here ). Landings by rubber...
