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UPDATE:

A maximum of two abstracts may be submitted by each lead author, but only one can be considered for an oral presentation.

The Fifth International Albatross and Petrel Conference (IAPC5) will be held in Wellington, New Zealand over 12-17 August 2012.

Registration is now open (click here) with an ‘early-bird' discount available until 1 April 2012.  A reduced registration fee is also available for pensioners, students and the "unwaged".

The closing date for submission of abstracts for posters and oral presentations is also 1 April 2012 (click here to access the template). 

Chatham Albatrosses: endemic to New Zealand
Photograph by Graham Robertson

Information is also available on mid-conference and pre- and post-conference tours and outings, as well as on the venue, events and accommodation.

Outings offered include seabird-watching trips into the Hauraki Gulf with Pterodroma Pelagics  (North Island) and off Kaikoura with Albatross Encounter (South Island) and to Kapiti Island Nature Reserve and Matiu/Somes Island Scientific and Historic Reserve.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 27 October 2011, updated 15 November 2011