Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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Twenty years of conservation effort moves New Zealand’s Chatham Petrel from Critically Endangered to Endangered 23-02-1515 4564
Disappearing ice and the opening Northwest Passage: could albatrosses invade the North Atlantic? 22-02-1515 3892
Feral cats are suspected of killing 22 Laysan Albatross chicks on Hawaii’s Kauai Island 21-02-1515 6111
At least 10 species of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels are impacted by marine debris according to a literature review 20-02-1515 3653
How much does experience help? Foraging by Cory’s Shearwaters 19-02-1515 3216
Satellite-tracking Southern Giant Petrels from Isla Arce and Isla Gran Robredo, Argentina 18-02-1515 3455
Seascapes used by Southern Giant Petrels from breeding colonies in Patagonian Argentina 17-02-1515 4022
UPDATED. Vagrant Grey-headed Albatrosses visit Black-browed Albatross colonies in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)* 16-02-1515 4129
The USA’s latest review of the Short-tailed Albatross makes no change to its domestic conservation status 15-02-1515 3749
A Future for Seabirds: the Pacific Seabird Group meets next week to hear about North Pacific albatrosses (and other procellariiforms) 14-02-1515 7363
Using doubly-labelled water to estimate field metabolic rates of Streaked Shearwaters 13-02-1515 3684
Does monitoring of Grey-headed Albatrosses affect their breeding? A study conducted at Marion Island 13-02-1515 3757
The Wandering Albatrosses at Marion Island get counted for another year - and some French birds are found 12-02-1515 4067
BirdLife extends its Albatross Task Force to Europe, with a new project in Spain to help ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwaters 11-02-1515 4291
Feral cats are thought to be causing a decline of Streaked Shearwaters on Japan’s Mikura Island: what to do with them? 10-02-1515 5070
Wisdom, the World’s oldest and most well-known albatross, loses her egg on Midway Atoll 09-02-1515 6360
Wandering Albatrosses continue to hang on at Australia’s Macquarie Island with four fledglings produced from last year’s breeding cohort 08-02-1515 3640
The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission produces a report on the status of seabirds in the Indian Ocean 07-02-1515 3550
Moult of young Black-browed Albatrosses based on at-sea photographs 05-02-1515 3980
Survival of Manx Shearwaters fledging from Skokholm Island 04-02-1515 3866
Scopoli’s Shearwaters in the Mediterranean fly towards fishing harbours to forage 03-02-1515 4413
Book review: “Albatross of Kaua’i. The Story of Kaloakulua” 02-02-1515 6450
A record breeding year for Laysan Albatrosses safely behind their fence at Kaena Point 01-02-1515 4497
Second record of a Salvin’s Albatross on Gough Island 31-01-1515 8204
Plans to save the Near Threatened Cape Verde Shearwater 30-01-1515 4544
At least 21 introduced Reindeer remain on a South Atlantic island, while Team Rat gets a quarter of a million Pounds for its final phase 29-01-1515 5921
Technical Specialist Meeting of the Joint tuna RFMO Bycatch Working Group takes place this week in Taiwan 28-01-1515 4840
Watching Shy Albatrosses with a robotic camera 27-01-1515 4818
The Laysan Albatross has started breeding at a young age at Kaena Point on the Hawaiian island of Oahu 26-01-1515 15775
125 Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses reported stranded on Brazilian beaches in 2013 25-01-1515 4052
More Short-tailed Albatross sightings on the USA’s Kure Atoll 24-01-1515 4742
Nine species of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels visit a marine reserve in southern Brazil 24-01-1515 3637
Feeling a bit lousy: Critically Endangered Waved Albatrosses carry critically co-endangered lice 23-01-1515 13059
One-eyed albatrosses can make it through life 21-01-1515 17083
One-way trip: a banded Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross gets recovered on a Brazilian beach 20-01-1515 13840
Second year of the Chatham Albatross chick translocation project gets underway 19-01-1515 10649
Record numbers of Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses breeding in the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge this year thought due to El Niño 18-01-1515 16893
Phase 3 to complete the eradication of rodents from a large South Atlantic island is about to start 17-01-1515 12236
Going your own way: spatial segregation when foraging by neighbouring Cory’s Shearwaters 16-01-1515 7082
Identifying Southern Giant Petrel (and other seabird) colonies in Antarctica by their guano stains spotted by satellite 15-01-1515 4086
Moult of Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses, Spectacled Petrels and Great Shearwaters caught at sea 14-01-1515 3951
Organic pollutants reach Antarctica in Southern Giant Petrels 13-01-1515 4286
Do Shy as well as White-capped Albatrosses occur in the south-west Atlantic? 12-01-1515 3891
Do Wandering Albatrosses get old? A new study does not find signs of senescence 11-01-1515 4499
Where did that albatross go? The ninth bi-annual North Star Transmitter Grant Program has eight PTTs to give away 10-01-1515 4185
Results of the most recent albatross counts on Kure Atoll 09-01-1515 4764
An incubating Laysan Albatross gets unhooked 08-01-1515 5873
A newly-developed underwater bait setter aims to stop albatrosses and petrels being killed by pelagic longline fisheries 07-01-1515 3826
Scopoli’s Shearwaters, Northern Gannets and West African fisheries: need for improved marine conservation 06-01-1515 3642
Taxonomic status of Shy and White-capped Albatrosses 05-01-1515 5664
PCBs and corticosterone in Wandering Albatrosses and other polar seabirds 04-01-1515 3627
UPDATED: Testing the Smart Tuna Hook 03-01-1515 5120
UPDATED: Ecuador's Environmental Ministry hears of the NISURI tube to reduce seabird mortality in artisanal longlining 02-01-1515 4936
Cephalopods in the diet of non-breeding Black-browed and Grey-headed Albatrosses 01-01-1515 3562
Using vocalization playbacks to help identify restoration sites for burrowing petrels and shearwaters in New Zealand 31-12-1414 3235
Moonlight affects colony attendance in Scopoli’s Shearwaters 30-12-1414 4173
A botanical fence also protects Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels from feral pigs on Kaua’i 29-12-1414 4459
To boldly breed where no shy Wandering Albatross has bred before 28-12-1414 3854
Are there 25 000 Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwaters? 27-12-1414 4116
Follow that krill: Short-tailed Shearwaters in the Arctic 26-12-1414 3697
Season's greetings and all best wishes for 2015 from the ACAP Secretariat 25-12-1414 3406
The end of breeding by Short-tailed Albatrosses on Midway Atoll? 24-12-1414 6004
A World first: translocating albatross eggs to start a new colony 23-12-1414 8714
Thousands of boats: challenges in reducing seabird bycatch in small-scale and artisanal fisheries 22-12-1414 4439
The carrot or the knout? Comparing command-and-control and incentive-based approaches to reducing seabird bycatch 21-12-1414 3446
Spectacled and White-chinned Petrels and other seabirds are killed by gillnets and longlines off southern Brazil 20-12-1414 3513
Playing catch-up to longlining: the potential for albatross mortality in the New South Wales Ocean Trawl fishery requires study 19-12-1414 3511
Seabird assemblages in Antarctica’s Drake Passage 18-12-1414 3946
Twenty-seven-year-old Northern Royal Albatross pair at Taiaroa Head incubates its 10th egg 17-12-1414 5306
Plans to control Norfolk Island’s rats and cats set to help both parrots and shearwaters 16-12-1414 4496
Call for Application: ACAP Executive Secretary, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels 15-12-1414 3788
ACAP Breeding Site No. 75. North-east Kauai, where Laysan Albatrosses breed on private lands - and a webcam has made one pair and its chick famous with two million hits 14-12-1414 9474
Black and white warning panels fixed to gill nets are expected to reduce seabird mortality: a sensory ecology review 13-12-1414 3579
Eight very large Marine Protected Areas totalling over three and a third million square kilometres surround breeding sites of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels 12-12-1414 3638
Transfer of immunity from female parent vaccinated against Newcastle Disease to chick in Cory’s Shearwater 11-12-1414 3116
The University of Barcelona produces a documentary on seabird bycatch in the Mediterranean in Catalán and Spanish 10-12-1414 3491
The ACAP Secondment Programme calls for 2015 applications 09-12-1414 3562
The symbolism of the albatross in Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick 08-12-1414 8887
Does the Tropical Shearwater breed in Fiji? 07-12-1414 5202
An update on research on the ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwater 06-12-1414 3234
Registration for the 2nd World Seabird Conference in Cape Town October 2015 opens 05-12-1414 3793
2nd Symposium on the Conservation of Marine and Coastal Birds in the Mediterranean to be held in Tunisia next February is expected to discuss the ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwater 04-12-1414 4501
Identifying suitable breeding sites for Hawaii’s Endangered Newell’s Shearwaters by modelling their habitat 03-12-1414 3885
The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission is meeting this week and improved seabird mitigation for small vessels is on the agenda 02-12-1414 3722
Northern Royal Albatrosses return to breed in numbers on New Zealand’s mainland at Taiaroa Head 01-12-1414 4344
Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwaters are killed by Portuguese purse seines and set nets 30-11-1414 4804
Sixty-something Wisdom the Laysan Albatross returns to Midway for yet another breeding season 29-11-1414 7361
Tracing Flesh-footed Shearwaters killed by fisheries to their breeding colonies via feather trace metal analysis 28-11-1414 4202
Healthy Short-tailed Shearwater chicks contain plastic particles 27-11-1414 4166
Assessing the levels of unobserved mortality in New Zealand longline and trawl fisheries 26-11-1414 4556
White-capped Albatrosses on New Zealand’s Auckland Islands get counted from aerial photographs over eight years, suggesting a stable population 25-11-1414 5264
Kure’s Short-tailed Albatross female-female pair returns to the atoll and lays two eggs for a fifth consecutive season 24-11-1414 4415
Conservation law and the Black Petrel: a New Zealand PhD thesis takes a legal view 23-11-1414 4338
ACAP Breeding Site No. 74. Wake Atoll, at the edge of the breeding range of North Pacific albatrosses 22-11-1414 5341
ACAP to hold its Fifth Meeting of Parties in Spain’s Canary Islands on Tenerife in May next year 21-11-1414 4347
Call for 2015 ACAP Small Grants applications: AUD 80 000 available 20-11-1414 4752
Kiribati and the USA sign an agreement to protect the Phoenix Ocean Arc in the Pacific 19-11-1414 4486
A PhD gets awarded for studying the marine ecosystem of the Prince Edward Islands 18-11-1414 4115
South Africa’s Marion Island is still the largest from which feral cats have been eradicated – 23 years on 17-11-1414 4421
Questions to consider when planning the tracking of albatrosses and petrels by satellite or GPS 16-11-1414 4725