Recent seabird surveys in the Chatham Islands

“Will you be Mine?”.  Buller's Albatrosses by Ellyn Bousman Lentz, Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature (ABUN) for World Albatross Day 2024

Mike Bell of Toroa Consulting has produced a final report for the New Zealand Department of Conservation’s Conservation Services Programme (CSP) that gives information on recent population surveys and at-sea tracking of four ACAP-listed species on the offshore “albatross islands” of the Chatham Islands.  The species studied were the Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita, Northern Buller’s Albatross T. bulleri platei, Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea sanfordi and the Northern Giant Petrel Macronectes halli.

The three islands surveyed were Rangitutahi (The Sisters), Motuhara (The Forty Fours) and Te Tara Koi Koia (The Pyramid).

Reference:

Bell, M. 2026.  Seabird research on the “Albatross Islands” of the Chatham Islands, Aug-Dec 2025.  Chatham Island, New Zealand.  Toroa Consulting.  20 pp.

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 18 May 2026