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Victims of bright lights and a vehicle. A Hutton’s Shearwater is killed on a Kaikōura street Shearwaters, and especially their fledglings, are particularly at risk of being downed by light pollution, notably from bright streetlighting, when they can be...
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- Author: John Cooper
- Category: ACAP Latest News
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Two Black-footed Albatrosses (ka‘upu) court at sunset on Hōlanikū Note. It has been some time since a guest has written and illustrated an ACAP Monthly Missive. Here is one by Isabelle Beaudoin, an aspiring seabird biologist who is currently on Kure...
- Type: Article
- Author: John Cooper
- Category: ACAP Latest News
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Light pollution from a mine proposed near the only breeding site for New Zealand's Westland Petrel could impact the species. A Westland Petrel fledgling; photograph by Bruce Stuart-Menteath There is concern New Zealand’s Endangered Westland Petrels...
- Type: Article
- Author: Bree Forrer
- Category: ACAP Latest News
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A Yelkouan Shearwater; photo by Milko Marchetti (canva.com) A study on colony attendance in Vulnerable Yelkouan Shearwaters Puffinus yelkouan exposed to light pollution from ships by Martin Austad (Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology Group, Department...
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- Author: Bree Forrer
- Category: ACAP Latest News
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Manx Shearwater at sea, photograph by Joe Pinder Martyna Syposz and Oliver Padget (Department of Biology, Oxford University, UK) have published early view in the journal Seabird on the fate of banded Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus grounded by...
- Type: Article
- Author: John Cooper
- Category: ACAP Latest News
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The ACAP-listed Black Petrel - a species included in the study linking seabird groundings to light pollution; photograph by Kirk Zufelt Ariel-Micaiah Heswall (School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand) and colleagues...
- Type: Article
- Author: Bree Forrer
- Category: ACAP Latest News
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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...
- Type: Article
- Author: John Cooper
- Category: ACAP Latest News
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An image from the paper: Figure 4. Amalgamation annotation of Manx shearwater feathers. Left: the distribution of barbules along the barb at increasing levels of oil treatment. Oil treatments are (a) control, (b) trace colour sheen – 0.1 µm, (c) dark...
- Type: Article
- Author: Bree Forrer
- Category: ACAP Latest News
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A still from an Australian Government's Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water animation raising awareness of the imapcts of light pollution by Redboat Animation and Video (animation below) World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD)...
- Type: Article
- Author: Bree Forrer
- Category: ACAP Latest News
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World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) is set to mark the second of its twice-yearly celebratory days on 8 October under this year’s theme, “Light Pollution”. Adopting the catch cry, “Dim the Lights for Birds at Night”, WMBD is raising awareness of the impact...
- Type: Article
- Author: Bree Forrer
- Category: ACAP Latest News
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