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Wandering Albatross chicks seem not to be scared by feral cats
“Albatross chick reaction when facing a Southern Giant Petrel (left) and a cat (right)”, from the publication Anais Cotton (Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l’Environnement, Université de Toulouse, France) and colleagues have published open...
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Control of feral cats on France’s Kerguelen Island continues with new funding
A feral cat on Kerguelen Island, with the remains of a European Rabbit, photograph by Charly Gicqueau NOTE: The English text below has been edited from the original French text, with the help of Google Translate. The European Union mobilized for the...
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Weather, not cats, affects brood duration in Wandering Albatrosses
Overall map of Kerguelen (a) and Courbet Peninsula (b). The red rectangle in panel (b) refers to our study area. From the publication Charlotte Bourgoin (Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l'Environnement, Université de Toulouse, France) and...
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THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. What is the “state of play” with planned predator eradications on two sub-Antarctic islands?
The sheer western cliffs of Auckland Island, photograph by Finlay Cox Eradicating invasive pests on seabird-breeding islands has been undertaken for over 50 years and has become established as one of the most immediate ways of helping restore island...
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Study reveals need for feral cat control to protect Wandering Albatrosses of Kerguelen Islands
A Wandering Albatross on Kerguelen Pierrick Blanchard (Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l’Environnement (CRBE), Université de Toulouse, France) and colleagues have published open access in the journal Ecological Society of America on the...
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THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Of mice and men, and of albatrosses and petrels
“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley”' From To a Mouse by Robert Burns, 1785 “Monument to a Mouse” at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, bronze statue by Kenny Hunter, 2010 The best-laid schemes of mice and men go oft awry, wrote...
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Featuring Marion Island’s albatrosses and petrels affected by House Mice: the Great-winged Petrel
A Great-winged Petrel incubates an egg in its burrow NOTE: This post is the ninth in an occasional series on the website of the Marion Mouse-Free Project that features breeding seabirds of Marion Island which are being attacked by introduced House...
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Featuring Marion Island’s albatrosses and petrels and their photographers: the White-chinned Petrel
Like most burrow-nesting petrels, White-chinned Petrels are largely nocturnal at their colonies. However, their large size gives them a degree of bravado when it comes to dealing with Brown Skuas, and they occasionally sit outside their burrow...
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An ACAP Species Summary for the White-chinned Petrel
"Seabird Sunset“”, White-chinned Petrels by ABUN co-founder Kitty Harvill for ACAP, acrylics, 27 x3 5 cm; after a photograph by Dimas Gianuca Note: The illustrated Species Summaries have been written to help inform the general public, including school...
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Featuring ACAP-listed species and their photographers: the Amsterdam Albatross by Jean-Paul Roux with Jérémy Dechartre
Painting of the first Amsterdam Albatross photographed by the author, by Susan Roux NOTE: This post continues an occasional series that features photographs of the 31 ACAP-listed species, along with information from and about their photographers. Here,...
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