and necks. This presumably is also due to the different morphology of their bills and nasal tubes. Adult Wanderers at Marion Island show pink staining... Photograph by John Cooper...as does this Tristan Albatross from Inaccessible Island Photograph by...
and return to the cave, would generally occupy a couple of hours....but of the young birds the whole carcass was taken." Marion Island, 1812/20 ("Webfoot"= William Dane Phelps 1871). "I take ashore albatross-egg sandwiches, cook a duck breast on my...
Genevieve Jones spent a year as an ornithological field assistant at the South African research station on sub-Antarctic Marion Island with the South African National Antarctic Programme ( SANAP ). She then completed an MSc in freshwater ecology at the...
thought to be important determinants in the high concentrations found in their tissues. Wandeing Albatross and chick at Marion Island Photograph by John Cooper Click here to read about increasing levels of methylmercury in the Black-footed Albatross...
project which looked at the changing population status of Subantarctic Skuas Catharacta antarctica at South Africa's Marion Island following the eradication of feral cats Felis catus in the mid-1990s. Her results show a halving of the skua breeding...
go up to 2010. I tested coverage of Southern Ocean islands by searching the index for Campbell, Gough, Macquarie and Marion Islands: all places where important eradication exercises have been carried out or are planned. Campbell gets fairly detailed...
situation raised concerns, observations have been made of mice attacks on albatrosses at South Africa's sub-Antarctic Marion Island. As a consequence a review of mouse impacts on Marion has been submitted to the island group's management committee for...
reports of Antipodes mice attacking ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels directly on the Antipodes, as they do on Gough and Marion Islands, it is known that the island's indigenous invertebrates and plants have been affected. You can read more about the...
Antarctic supply ship, the m.v. S.A. Agulhas , sets sail today from Cape Town on its last voyage before replacement to Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean to undertake the annual relief of the weather station. Aboard will be a team of marine...
40% of the global population of the Vulnerable Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans . A breeding Wandering Albatross on Marion Island, with Prince Edward Island in the background Prince Edward Island is uninhabited and is only visited at long intervals...
is of a curious Northern Giant Petrel Macronectes halli , with its distinctive reddish bill tip, taken in Ship's Cove, Marion Island in April 2011 by maritime archaeologist Jaco Boshoff of Iziko Museums of South Africa's Department of Cultural History....
During a round-island hike on South Africa's Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean Peter Ryan ( FitzPatrick Institute , University of Cape Town) picked up a toothbrush on the island's west coast on the 28th of April this year. The locality, known...
One of the least-known ACAP-listed species, the Grey Petrel Procellaria cinerea , is now being studied at South Africa's Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. As part of a larger project on burrowing petrels led by Peter Ryan ( FitzPatrick...
Research Team ( SMART ) at Swansea University in Wales, has this and last month been visiting South Africa's sub-Antarctic Marion Island during the annual relief to test new devices on breeding Wandering Albatrosses Diomedea exulans . The aim is to...
What is less expected is for southern albatrosses to become entangled at their remote breeding sites. South Africa's Marion Island is part of a Special Nature Reserve in the southern Indian Ocean that is managed as a de facto wilderness area. Away from...
the University of Cape Town's Percy FitzPatrick Institute studied Wandering Albatrosses Diomedea exulans at sub-Antarctic Marion Island towards her PhD, awarded in 2011 ( click here ). Genevieve has now published along with colleagues an aspect of her...
learning more about the at-sea movements and population demographies of the Endangered Sooty Albatross Phoebetria fusca at Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean and the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena at Gough Island in...
Ship's Cove is one of the few sandy beaches on South Africa's sub-Antarctic Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean and is home to hundreds of seabirds from loafing King Penguins Aptenodytes patagonicus on the beach to Sooty Albatrosses Phoebetria...
those of ACAP-listed albatrosses and of burrowing petrels, as they have on Gough Island in the South Atlantic and Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. It will also mean that only the introduced feral pigs and cats and mice still present on the...
confined to deep, muddy soils, usually on slopes below 200 m, but locally up to 420 m. After correcting for count bias, Marion Island has an estimated 29,900 nests (95 % CI 27,700-32,400). Burrow occupancy rates at the start of the incubation period...
