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Flesh-footed Shearwaters found breeding at a new locality on Phillip Island
A pair of Flesh-footed Shearwaters, photograph from the Norfolk Island National Park and Botanic Garden The Norfolk Island National Park and Botanic Garden reports on Facebook that the Near Threatened Flesh-footed Shearwater Puffinus carnepeis has...
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Age of Flesh-footed Shearwaters returning to Lord Howe Island for the first time
A Flesh-footed Shearwater on Lord Howe Island, photograph by Tim Reid Jennifer Lavers (Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia) and Alex Bond have published in the journal Emu – Austral Ecology on age at...
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Flesh-footed Shearwaters add nutrients to Lord Howe Island
Flesh-footed Shearwater on Lord Howe Island, photograph by Tim Reid Megan Grant (Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Newnham, Australia) and colleagues have published open access in the journal Ecology and Evolution on...
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Quantitative photography used to assess plastic pollution in Flesh-footed Shearwaters
A Flesh-footed Shearwater in flight, photograph by Mike Double Joseph Hollis (Bird Group, Natural History Museum, Tring, UK) and colleagues have published open access in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution on using automated image analysis to...
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UPDATED. THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Australia’s Lord Howe Island is declared free of introduced rats and mice following a successful eradication operation in 2019
Lord Howe Island; photograph by Ian Hutton UPDATE: An early-review publication, recently available open access, details the success of taking two non-target land birds into temporary captivity on Lord Howe while the rodent eradication was underway....
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Continuing a tradition: the Australian Antarctic Program raised a banner and baked cakes for World Albatross Day this week
A banner-raising ceremony to celebrate World Albatross Day was held during the morning tea at the Australian Antarctic Program’s Headquarters before all the tasty cakes were devoured. Mike Double, ACAP Advisory Committee Chair, is on the left holding...
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Impact of ingestion of pumice in seabirds and connections between chick development and plastic ingestion analysed in new study
Flesh-footed Shearwaters; photograph by Ian Hutton J. L. Lavers (Bird Group, The Natural History Museum, Tring, UK) and A.L. Bond have published open access in the journal Marine Biology a study on the ingestion of pumice in Flesh-footed and...
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Long-term physical health of fledging Flesh-footed Shearwaters found to be deteriorating
Fledgling Flesh-footed Shearwaters on Lord Howe Island in May 2022: (left) a healthy chick collected in the colony (hit by a motor vehicle) and (right) a similar age bird found washed up on the beach with substantially lower body mass, shorter wing...
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Study on excessive scar tissue from plastic ingestion leads researchers to propose new disease, ‘Plasticosis’
The graphical abstract of the paper, ‘Plasticosis’: Characterising macro- and microplastic-associated fibrosis in seabird tissues Hayley S. Charlton-Howard (Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Tasmania, Australia) and colleagues have published...
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THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Should more shearwaters be listed by the Agreement?
A Flesh-footed Shearwater at sea; photograph by Kirk Zufelt NOTE: ACAP Monthly Missives are more personal than those news articles that are regularly posted in ACAP Latest News. The new series offers the opportunity to go behind and beyond factual...
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