The Albatross and Petrel Agreement makes small grants to projects that will assist the Agreement meet its objective of achieving and maintaining a favourable conservation status for albatrosses and petrels. For the 2012 round of grants total funding of...
John Penhallurick, writing on-line and open-access in The Open Ornithology Journal , has considered how many species of albatrosses currently exist. The paper's abstract follows "The basis of the widespread practice of recent years to recognise 23 or...
The Global Seabird Programme of BirdLife International publishes an annual newsletter entitled SeaChange that includes short articles on its activities in helping save seabirds around the World. The latest 12-page issue of SeaChange ( Number 8 , for...
Seabirds.net is a global seabird information network dedicated to the facilitation of data sharing and communication among seabird scientists around the world. The website has now been officially launched and all members of the seabird community...
Andy Clarke ( British Antarctic Survey ) and colleagues, writing in the journal British Birds , have described South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ). "The function of the BirdLife Important Bird Area (IBA) Programme...
Before the journal Marine Ornithology took up its current name it was titled Cormorant for the years 1976 to 1989, during which period 17 issues were published by the African Seabird Group. Articles in nearly all these issues are now newly available...
The annual relief of the South African weather station on Gough Island in the South Atlantic commences today with the brand-new Antarctic research and supply ship the m.v. S.A. Agulhas II departing Cape Town on its maiden voyage to the island at 14h00...
It is now well-known that downy chicks of the near-endemic and Critically Endangered Tristan Albatrosses that breed on Gough Island in the South Atlantic are facing nightly onslaughts in winter months from "killer" House Mice that have been...
A cliff-hanger is properly a suspenseful break in or an end to an entertainment series that is meant to encourage viewers to look out for the sequel; it is said to come from early films when the hero was often left literally hanging over a cliff....
Extra-pair copulations (and in some cases ensuing extra-pair paternity or EPP) have been reported for several species of albatrosses, including Wanderers Diomedea exulans ( click here ), Waved Phoebastria irrorata and Laysan P. immutabilis and several...
Gough Island in the South Atlantic Ocean is the most northerly breeding locality of the Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus . During the annual relief of the South African weather station in September this year on this United Kingdom-owned...
On 1 January 2012 Gough Island field researchers Karen Bourgeois and Sylvain Dromzée came across a Tristan Albatross Dio medea dabbenena chick in the long-term study colony in Gonydale that was behaving unusually. From their report it was stated to be...
Although ACAP-listed Northern Giant Petrels Macronectes halli are regular non-breeding visitors to the inshore waters of the Tristan da Cunha group of islands in the South Atlantic up to now there has only been one record of a bird on land - seen on...
"Islands are the epicenter of the current global extinction crisis and invasive vertebrates are the leading cause of extinction on islands. Removing invasive vertebrates from islands is a well-established tool to protect and restore island ecosystems...
In 2010 I started a demographic study of Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus on Gough Island in the south Atlantic ( click here ). Such a study is of interest as Gough is the most northerly breeding locality for this ACAP-listed species, with...
Sebastián Jiménez ( Proyecto Albatros y Petreles - Uruguay ) and colleagues, writing in the journal Aquatic Living Resources have assessed the risk to ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels from the Uruguayan pelagic longline fleet. They conclude that the...
A personal challenge in 2012 has been to post a daily news item to ACAP Latest News . This story is the 365th of the year so the self-imposed daily streak* has been achieved. Now is a good time then to look back at the highlights of a years' worth of...
