Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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Poems and paintings in the service of albatross conservation: a collaboration between Hannah Fries and Sara Parrilli 24-01-1919 1695
Conserving Seabird Diversity for the Future: Third World Seabird Conference will be held in Hobart, Australia in October next year 23-01-1919 1351
Coupling isoscape and biologging models to study foraging ecology of incubating Northern Giant Petrels 22-01-1919 1597
New National Plan of Action for Reducing Incidental Catch of Seabirds in Trawl Fisheries for the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)* 21-01-1919 1733
More news on Kauai Laysan Albatross egg translocations 18-01-1919 1620
Albatross foraging energetics in relation to wind variability: postdoctoral position available 17-01-1919 1347
Barn Owls introduced to Hawaii kill Newell’s and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels 16-01-1919 1789
Segregation in space and time; the case of foraging Northern and Southern Giant Petrels 15-01-1919 1482
Study trophic ecology and pollution loads with burrowing petrels: two postgrad research opportunities in South Africa 11-01-1919 1797
Protection offered to Laysan Albatrosses attempting to breed on Oahu’s north coast 10-01-1919 3619
Ticked off? Low levels of ectoparasite infestations on Black-browed Albatrosses 09-01-1919 1465
Invasive mice turn to attacking adult albatrosses and giant petrels on Gough and Marion Islands 08-01-1919 3633
Two protected albatross colonies in Hawaii and New Zealand are doing well 07-01-1919 1759
Branch line weighting, bird-scaring lines and night setting result in zero seabird bycatch in a Uruguayan pelagic longline fishery 04-01-1919 1727
Fronting up: seabird hotspots between New Zealand and Antarctica 03-01-1919 1632
A DREAM breakthrough? Digital restriction enzyme analysis of methylation used to age Short-tailed Shearwaters 02-01-1919 1604
Reverse zoonosis: introducing bacterial infections to sub-Antarctic and Antarctic seabirds 01-01-1919 1882
Another year of ACAP Latest News with 261 postings: grateful thanks are due 31-12-1818 1583
A grand day out! Translocating Laysan Albatross eggs on Kauai for another season 28-12-1818 1820
Eleventh Meeting of ACAP’s Advisory Committee, Florianópolis, Brazil, May 2019: Second Circular available 27-12-1818 1578
On-board cameras to continue monitoring of seabird mortality in New Zealand fisheries 26-12-1818 1522
Seasonal greetings and best wishes for 2019 from the ACAP Secretariat 24-12-1818 1628
ACAP attends meetings of the South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation in Namibia 21-12-1818 1545
Gonies, Mollies, Peeoos and Ringeyes all get surveyed on Inaccessible Island 20-12-1818 2989
ACAP signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation 19-12-1818 1723
Albatrosses to spy on illegal fishers in the Southern Ocean 18-12-1818 6909
Threatened Yelkouan Shearwaters get a boost on Italy’s Tavolara Island, now considered rat free a year after a poison bait drop 17-12-1818 1561
Tristan da Cunha adopts ACAP's mitigation measures to prevent seabird bycatch over its seamounts 14-12-1818 1989
Her eighth decade approaches: 68-something Wisdom the Laysan Albatross is back on Midway for another breeding season 13-12-1818 2450
An albatross is seen at sea trailing a balloon string 12-12-1818 1968
Progress towards eradication of the remaining alien mammals of New Zealand’s Auckland Island 11-12-1818 2011
Chile and New Zealand to produce a joint Action Plan for the Endangered Antipodean Albatross 10-12-1818 2270
Diving behaviour of chick-rearing Pink-footed Shearwaters 07-12-1818 1513
From New Zealand to Chile: tracking down a colour-banded albatross photographed at sea 06-12-1818 2580
51 eggs! Taiaroa Head’s Northern Royal Albatrosses are set for a record breeding season 05-12-1818 1787
ACAP signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement 04-12-1818 1941
Adiós Marco. ACAP says goodbye to one Executive Secretary and welcomes another 03-12-1818 1926
An albatross and a giant petrel get rehabilitated and released back to sea in Brazil 30-11-1818 1806
Job opportunity: Gough Island Restoration Programme Manager 29-11-1818 1676
One thousand kilometres in 10 hours: breeding Great Shearwaters go far and fast 28-11-1818 1545
Hands-on conservation: translocating Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwater chicks with the Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project 27-11-1818 1907
Recent research summaries on North Pacific albatrosses get translated from the original Japanese 26-11-1818 1728
UPDATED. Where to for its birds now? A North Pacific albatross island disappears after a hurricane hits 23-11-1818 1973
Single Short-tailed Albatross pairs return to Midway and Kure Atolls in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands 22-11-1818 2582
ACAP Signs a new Memorandum of Understanding with the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources 21-11-1818 1647
CCAMLR hears that seabird bycatch levels have dropped in the Southern Ocean but problems remain at sea farther north 20-11-1818 1683
Record numbers of Scopoli’s and Yelkouan Shearwater fledglings downed by light pollution in Malta this year 19-11-1818 1415
Linking Sooty Shearwaters and the Southern Oscillation Index through machine learning 16-11-1818 1545
Seabird foraging area segregation has implications for marine conservation 15-11-1818 1300
Hookpods to be tested with a new design at depth to reduce seabird mortality further 14-11-1818 1651
Beached fledglings have heavier plastic loads than do road-killed fledglings in the Short-tailed Shearwater 13-11-1818 1390
The Tamini Tabla keeps bird-scaring lines away from trawl cables – and wins an award 12-11-1818 2103
Inferring comparative foraging ecology of the Waved Albatross from isotope analysis 09-11-1818 1445
Burrow architecture of the Sooty Shearwater 08-11-1818 1394
Evidence for environmental specialisation among individual Grey-headed and Black-browed Albatrosses 07-11-1818 1309
Rehabilitated Newell’s Shearwaters have been satellite tagged since 2014 to assess effects of light pollution 06-11-1818 2156
Kalama's Journey: a Laysan Albatross gets filmed from hatching to fledging 05-11-1818 2155
Bad for (mostly) males: gender bias in Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses killed by long liners 02-11-1818 1559
Studying moult of Shy and White-capped Albatrosses from longline bycatch 01-11-1818 1404
Moonlight or wind: which effects Streaked Shearwaters’ colony comings and goings the most? 31-10-1818 1440
Australia publishes its National Plan of Action - Seabirds 30-10-1818 1588
Downed Newell’s Shearwater fledglings get a ceremony on release and Hawaiian Petrel chicks get translocated on Kauai 29-10-1818 2108
Eleventh Meeting of ACAP’s Advisory Committee, Florianópolis, Brazil, May 2019: First Circular released 26-10-1818 2001
Research position available for a marine ornithologist studying burrowing petrels on sub-Antarctic Marion Island 25-10-1818 1662
Scopoli’s Shearwater fledglings are at risk to light pollution in both Malta and the Balearic Islands this month 24-10-1818 1601
Gough Island’s alien mice estimated to kill up two million seabirds each year but an eradication effort is planned for 2020 23-10-1818 2948
Some up, some down, trends in albatross numbers on French sub-Antarctic islands 22-10-1818 1449
Scopoli’s Shearwaters scavenge fishery discards in the Ionian Sea 19-10-1818 1470
Foraging range of Scopoli's Shearwaters in the eastern Mediterranean 18-10-1818 1741
ACAP’s new Executive Secretary, a former New Zealand diplomat, takes over in December 17-10-1818 2933
Northern Royal Albatrosses also feed plastic to their chicks 16-10-1818 1745
How’s the head? Skull morphology of the Southern Giant Petrel gets studied 15-10-1818 2049
Imping the flight feathers of a Laysan Albatross, a Hawaiian Petrel and a Red-tailed Tropic Bird 12-10-1818 1538
Breeding‐site vagrancy in albatrosses can lead to hybrid young 11-10-1818 2132
Albatrosses and petrels require threats to be addressed on a large spatial scale 10-10-1818 1542
Once more Gough Island’s Tristan Albatrosses have a poor breeding season due to “killer” mice 09-10-1818 2985
ACAP attends the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission 14th Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch 08-10-1818 1406
ACAP presents on by-catch mitigation to the Scientific Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean Fisheries Commission in South Korea 05-10-1818 1480
Hutton’s Shearwaters get painted for a census 04-10-1818 2311
Next year’s Australasian Ornithological Conference calls for seabird papers 03-10-1818 1643
Vote albatross or petrel? It’s Bird of the Year time again in New Zealand 02-10-1818 2736
The Mediterranean Commission calls for breeding distribution information on Yelkouan Shearwaters 01-10-1818 2164
Starving Short-tailed Shearwaters seen feeding on land in Alaska 28-09-1818 1823
Win win? Friday night football and Newell’s Shearwaters 27-09-1818 1902
Supplementary feeding of Laysan Albatross chicks on Kauai that have lost a parent 26-09-1818 1972
Honouring Lance Richdale 80 years after the first Northern Royal Albatross fledged from Taiaroa Head 25-09-1818 2355
Albatross Task Force highlights its successes reducing bycatch 24-09-1818 1847
Lego Wanderer 21-09-1818 1681
UPDATED Translocation of Endangered Newell's Shearwaters on Kauai: third year underway 20-09-1818 2204
Henri Weimerskirch, doyen French marine ornithologist, talks of his 2018 albatross research 19-09-1818 2277
Spring bells ring to welcome Northern Royal Albatrosses back to Taiaroa Head 18-09-1818 2097
Registration opens for the Pacific Seabird Group’s Annual Meeting in Kauai next February 17-09-1818 1893
Rat control is helping threatened Yelkouan Shearwaters in Malta 14-09-1818 1615
Antipodes’ Million Dollar Mouse team releases a video of its successful eradication campaign 13-09-1818 2043
The political biogeography of migratory marine predators, including Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses, in the Pacific 12-09-1818 1631
Netting a solution for seabirds caught by New Zealand's trawl fisheries 11-09-1818 2055
Employment opportunity: Operational Manager required for the Gough Island House Mouse eradication attempt in 2020 10-09-1818 2758
Australia’s MPAs do not well serve its endemic Shy Albatrosses 07-09-1818 1751
Great Shearwaters, Black-browed Albatrosses and White-chinned Petrels are killed by the Argentinian anchovy pelagic trawl fishery 06-09-1818 1584
Flesh-footed Shearwaters migrate from Western Australia to Sri Lanka 05-09-1818 2025