entangled, often with fatal consequences. Recently, a Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes found entangled in balloons and string was found by Beach COMBER (Coastal Ocean Mammal & Bird Education and Research Surveys) volunteers during a monthly...
from boat-based tows. Significant differences were found, suggesting that the birds select for hard plastic, rubber and balloons.” Short-tailed Shearwater, photograph by Mark Carey Reference: Acampora, H., Schuyler, Q.A., Townsend, K.A. & Hardesty, B.D....
“Gazza” and the regurgitated balloon fragments, photographs courtesy of Australian Seabird Rescue Ingestion of latex balloons is a well-known conservation issue for marine turtles, which apparently mistake ruptured balloons at sea for jellyfish, their...
Latest News has previously reported more than once on albatrosses and petrels becoming entangled with or ingesting latex balloons. Records include entanglements and/or ingestions for the Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes and Arctic Fulmar...
plastic will die before they make it to us.” Read more here . Read of other procellariform seabirds that have ingested balloons here . John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 27 June 2017
from this. For example, ACAP Latest News has reported on plastic and other foreign objects (such as fragments of latex balloons) swallowed by a Light-mantled Albatross Phoebetria palpebrata and by Southern Macronectes giganteus and Northern M. halli...
The Marine Debris Program of the USA’s National Oceanic and Administration ( NOAA ) has reported recently on the dangers balloons can cause to marine life: “Balloons that are released into the air don’t just go away, they either get snagged on something...
high-risk applications where there are alternatives (e.g. six-pack rings), discouraging the use of high-risk items (e.g. balloons on strings, ‘manja’ kites), and encouraging fishers to not discard waste fishing gear by providing specific receptacles and...
here . ACAP Latest News has previously posted on ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels swallowing or becoming entangled by balloons, including Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes , Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris , Grey-headed...
from plastic bags, toothbrushes , cigarette lighters , plastic straws , bottle tops and toy soldiers to fragments of latex balloons and Styrofoam , and even the sole of a shoe : the list seems endless. Concern has also been expressed at the harmful...
Albatross T. chrysostoma washed up dead on an Australian shore which contained a straw as well as fragments of latex balloons ( click here ). Globally, campaigns have started against the use of single-use plastic straws, many of which end up at sea once...
Erica Donnelly-Greenan (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, California, USA) and colleagues have published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin on surveys of entangled seabirds on the coast of California. Sooty Shearwaters Ardenna grisea made...
other posts to ACAP Latest News that describe more cases of giant petrels ingesting plastic objects, as well as latex balloons. With thanks to Projeto Albatroz, photographs from CRAM-FURG. John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 31 October 2019
