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 ( click here ). Karen Bourgeois and colleagues...
It is with sadness that the Albatross and Petrel Agreement reports the passing of Michael John Imber, DSc of Levin, New Zealand on 28 April 2011 at the age of 70 years. Mike Imber had spent a career working with procellariiform seabirds and has...
It is the aim of ACAP Latest News to list all scientific publications on ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels as they appear in the literature. For most papers the abstracts are included. However, from time to time others will be listed by title only -...
At the Fifth Meeting of ACAP's Scientific Committee held in Argentina in 2010 an information paper ( AC5 Inf 5 ) submitted by the Secretariat gave a brief review of the conservation status of shearwaters of the genera Calonectris and Puffinus . The...
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 ). Recent scientific publications on...
Leigh Torres of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research ( NIWA ) in New Zealand and colleagues have studied the degree of overlap between individual albatrosses and fishing vessels using GPS trackers, publishing their findings last...
Matt Rayner of New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research ( NIWA ) and colleagues writing in the Journal of Avian Biology have tracked Flesh-footed Shearwaters Puffinus carneipes , a potential species for ACAP listing, across...
Elizabeth (Biz) Bell ( Wildlife Management International ) and colleagues in New Zealand have made available a further annual report in their series on the little-studied and Vulnerable Black or Parkinson's Petrel Procellaria parkinsoni, an ACAP-listed...
Ramunas Zydelis ( Center for Marine Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment , Duke University Marine Laboratory, USA) and colleagues, publishing on-line this year in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences , have utilized...
The internationally Endangered Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli , endemic to the "high islands' of Hawaii, USA, is at risk from alien predators, collisions with power lines and towers, and from artificial lighting which downs especially fledglings....
Townsend's Shearwater Puffinus auricularis is a Critically Endangered seabird endemic to the Revillagigedo Archipelago of Mexico. The shearwater now breeds on only one island, Socorro, in the group, where it is at risk from predation by introduced...
The Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trust was formed in 2008 to encourage and promote the conservation, research, public education and sustainable management of Hutton's Shearwater Puffinus huttoni. Hutton's Shearwater is an Endangered seabird endemic...
BirdLife International manages a Globally Threatened Forum for Seabirds which considers which threatened species should be recategorized. Discussions on the status of ACAP-listed Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea sanfordi ( click here ) and...
Paul Sagar, Leigh Torres and David Thompson of the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research ( NIWA ) have studied the demography and distribution of the Near Threatened Buller's Albatross Thalassarche bulleri at New Zealand's Snares Islands....
The Near Threatened White-capped Albatross Thalassarche steadi is endemic to New Zealand, breeding on Disappointment, Adams and Auckland Islands in the Auckland Island group and Bollons Island (50-100 pairs) in the Antipodes Island Group. Population...
Albatrosses have appeared in many poems, probably most famously in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner , written in 1798. Lance Tickell in his book Albatrosses devotes 12 pages to the subject (Chapter 18: The Mariner Syndrome),...
BirdLife South Africa's Seabird Division is once again making a call for photographs for its annual SOS Festival Photographic Competition. The theme for this year is "Oceans of Life" and images of any aspect of marine biodiversity are welcome,...
The Seabird Group will hold its 11th International Conference next month from 2-4 September at the University of Plymouth in Plymouth, United Kingdom. The programme for the conference is now available on-line . Several oral and poster papers will be...
The latest issue (Vol. 39, No. 1) of the international journal Marine Ornithology recently published on-line carries papers on three species of shearwaters that have been identified by ACAP as "potential candidates" for listing within its Annex 1. The...
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) is a well-known Chilean poet who was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature. Probably less-well-known is the Mexican poet Eduard Langagne (1952- ). What links these two poets from the perspective of the Albatross and...
