The Seabird Group will hold its 13th International Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland over 6-9 September 2016.  Titles and authors of talks and posters are now available on line.

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