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Waved Albatrosses and White-chinned Petrels forage on discards from a Peruvian squid fishery
at sea; photograph by Ken Logan Carlos Moreno (Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Peru) and Javier Quiñones have published in the open-access journal Marine Ornithology on albatrosses and petrels associated with an...
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Buller’s, Chatham and Salvin’s Albatrosses in Peruvian waters
Buller's Albatross, artwork by Pat Latas Javier Quiñones (Oficina de Investigaciones en Depredadores Superiores, Instituto del Mar del Peru, Callao, Peru) and colleagues have published in the journal Pacific Science on at-sea observations of three...
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UPDATED. Northern Giant Petrels in Peruvian waters
Northern Giant Petrel by Maureen Bennetts; acrylic on canvas, from a photograph by Laurie Smaglick Johnson Javier Quinones ((Oficina de Investigaciones en Depredadores Superiores, Instituto del Mar del Peru, Callao, Peru) and colleagues have published...
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Occurrence of Black-browed Albatrosses off the coast of Peru
Black-browed Albatross at sea, photograph by Kirk Zufelt Javier Quiñones (Oficina de Investigaciones en Depredadores Superiores, Instituto del Mar del Peru, Callao, Peru) and colleagues have published in the journal Ornithology Research on at-sea...
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Staying away from home: Black Petrels are present at sea off Peru during summer
Black Petrel at sea, photograph by Kirk Zufelt Javier Quinones (Oficina de Investigaciones en Depredadores Superiores, Instituto del Mar del Perú, Callao, Perú) and colleagues have published in the journal Notornis on ACAP-listed and globally...
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Virot petit, la contaminació lumínica - Balearic Shearwater and light pollution
Fund i Ibiza Formentera Preservation. Il·lustració i animació: Clara Prieto, Locució: Immaculada Villalonga;, Música: Javier Pérez de Arévalo. Iniciativa de Recerca de la Biodiversitat de les Illes (IRBI) Light pollution from the coastal urban areas of...
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¿Habla español? ACAP’s Executive Secretary makes a liaison visit to Peru, Ecuador and Chile
Guerra M., Profesional asuntos mamíferos marinos de la Subsecretaria de Pesca; Verónica López, Oikonos Front row from left: Javier Rivera, Jefe, Departamento de Pesquerías Subsecretaria de Pesca y Acuicultura; Marcelo Garcia Alvarado, Chile's ACAP...
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Were albatrosses smaller in the past? A new ancestral form from Antarctica
Carolina Hospitaleche (CONICET, La Plata, Argentina) and Javier Gelfo have published in the journal Historical Biology on an old bird bone from Antarctica. The paper’s abstract follows: “New remains from the La Meseta (Thanetian – Lutetian) and...
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The Ninth Meeting of the ACAP Advisory Committee gets off to a good start in Chile
La Serena, Chile. The meeting was opened with welcoming speeches from Carlos Montenegro Silva, María Angela Barbieri and Javier Chavez of Chile. From left: Carlos Montenegro Silva (Chile), Mark Tasker (Advisory Committee Acting Chair), María Angela...
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Black-browed and Grey-headed Albatrosses continue to increase at Diego Ramirez, Chile
On behalf of a group of Australian and Chilean marine ornithologists Javier Arata reported this week to the Third Meeting of ACAP's Population and Conservation Status Working Group (PaCSWG3) in La Serena, Chile on a recent survey of Black-browed...