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title: "The Seabird Group will hear talks on albatrosses and petrels next month in Edinburgh at its 13th Conference"
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# The Seabird Group will hear talks on albatrosses and petrels next month in Edinburgh at its 13th Conference

The [Seabird Group](http://seabirdgroup.org.uk/) will hold its [13th International Conference](http://www.seabirdgroupconference2016.info/conference.html) in Edinburgh, Scotland over 6-9 September 2016.  Titles and authors of talks and posters are now available [on line](http://www.seabirdgroupconference2016.info/uploads/6/9/0/4/69048637/seabird_group_conference_2016_scientific_programme.pdf).

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/G/GHA_Steeple_Jason_Micky_Reeves.jpg)

 Great-headed Albatross, photograph by Mickey Reeves

 A list of presentations (plenaries, orals and posters) dealing with aspects of the biology and conservation of procellariiform birds follows.

 Tony Martin:  Invasive alien species on seabird islands: problems and solutions

 Rob Thomas:  A Long-Term Study of Migrating European Storm Petrels

 Ingrid Pollet:  What factors influence breeding success of Leach's Storm-Petrels?

 Nicky McArthur:  A New Zealand conservation story of a globally unique seabird, Kaikoura’s Titi, the Hutton’s shearwater

 Steffen Oppel:  Using globally threatened pelagic birds to identify priority sites for marine conservation in the South Atlantic Ocean

 Paulo Catry: Dancing in the moonlight: effects of light regime on seabird activity patterns

 Nina Dehnhard:  Soaring with the wind?  Foraging behaviour of sympatric Antarctic fulmarine petrels in East Antarctica in relation to habitat characteristics

 Agnes Olin:  Effects of changing environmental conditions and intrinsic variation on the breeding success of northern fulmars

 Deborah Pardo:  Demographic buffering in declining populations: can pre and non-breeders save the greyheaded albatross?

 Dimas Gianuca:  Influence of allochrony on the population trajectories of northern and southern giant petrels

 Matt Wood:  Climatic variation and demography of Manx shearwaters in the Irish Sea

 Saskia Wischnewski:  Exceptionally large foraging ranges in provisioning Manx Shearwaters (*Puffinus puffinus*): A triple foraging strategy facilitated by environmental variables?

 Martin Berg:  Have ecosystem changes altered the trophic niche of the fluttering shearwater (*Puffinus gavia*)? - A 134-year stable isotope record from feathers and prey collected in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand

 Bernard Cadiou:  New data about the secret life of the wandering prebreeding European storm petrels at colonies

 Dimas Gianuca:  Comparative trials of Lumo Leads and traditional line weighting in the Brazilian pelagic longline fishery

 Dilek Sahin:  High migration counts in Turkey suggest the existance [*sic*] of undiscovered colonies of the Yelkouan shearwater

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 19 August 2016*