Yelkouan Shearwater fledglings downed by lights in Malta get rescued and releasedhttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/yelkouan-shearwater-fledglings-downed-by-lights-in-malta-get-rescued-and-released

08 August 2018 This year is proving to be a record year for stranded globally Vulnerable Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan in Malta with nine fledglings recovered by members of the public during June and July following an appeal. The birds had become...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
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New Zealand’s endemic Hutton’s Shearwaters fledge with a farewell ceremony in the face of continued light pollutionhttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/new-zealand-s-endemic-hutton-s-shearwaters-fledge-with-a-farewell-ceremony-in-the-face-of-continued-light-pollution

27 April 2018 Sunrise farewell to the 2018 fledglings The annual farewell celebration for globally Endangered Hutton’s Shearwaters Puffinus huttoni was held earlier this month in Kaikoura on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island with a sunrise Hikoi (parade)...

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• Author: John Cooper
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• Language: en-GB

Son et lumière: how do breeding Scopoli’s Shearwaters respond to light and sound disturbance?https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/son-et-lumiere-how-do-breeding-cory-s-shearwaters-respond-to-light-and-sound-disturbance

14 March 2018 Marco Cianchetti-Benedetti (Ornis Italica, Rome, Italy) and colleagues have published in the European Journal of Wildlife Research on effects of light and sound pollution on breeding Scopoli’s Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea. The paper’s abstract...

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• Author: John Cooper
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Wind, moon and light: modelling groundings of fledging Manx Shearwatershttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/wind-moon-and-light-modelling-groundings-of-fledging-manx-shearwaters

06 March 2018 Martyna Syposz (Department of Biology, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK) and colleagues have an open-access paper accepted for the journal Ibis on light-affected groundings of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus. The paper’s abstract follows:...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
• Language: en-GB

New Zealand’s endemic Hutton’s Shearwaters are at risk from lights, cats and carshttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/new-zealand-s-endemic-hutton-s-shearwaters-are-at-risk-from-lights-cats-and-cars

24 October 2017 Kaikoura Wildlife Rescue has reported that a globally Endangered and nationally Vulnerable Hutton’s Shearwater Puffinus huttoni crash landed from artificial light disorientation and then succumbed to a cat attack. The species breeds only at two sites...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
• Language: en-GB

“Like moths to a candle flame”: what type of night-time lights are the worse for Short-tailed Shearwaters?https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/like-moths-to-a-candle-flame-what-type-of-night-time-lights-are-the-worse-for-short-tailed-shearwaters

08 August 2017 Airam Rodríguez (Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Seville, Spain) and colleagues have published in the Journal for Nature Conservation on the effects of different types of night-time lights on Short-tailed Shearwaters...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
• Language: en-GB

Rehabilitating Cory’s Shearwaters from light pollution and other threats on Spain’s Gran Canariahttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/rehabilitating-cory-s-shearwaters-from-light-pollution-and-other-threats-on-spain-s-gran-canaria

23 May 2017 Natalia Montesdeoca (Department of Animal Pathology, Veterinary Faculty, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Arucas, Las Palmas, Spain) and colleagues have published in the on-line journal PLoS ONE on seabirds, including Cory’s Shearwaters...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
• Language: en-GB

Not seeing the light: the US Air Force to reduce light pollution to save threatened Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwatershttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/not-seeing-the-light-the-us-air-force-to-reduce-light-pollution-to-save-threatened-hawaiian-petrels-and-newell-s-shearwaters

31 March 2017 The United States Air Force will reduce light pollution at its radar-tracking Kōke‘e Air Force Station facility on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to reduce deaths to globally Vulnerable Hawaiian Petrels Pterodroma sandwichensis, Endangered Newell’s...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
• Language: en-GB

Rescuing light-downed before beach-washed Short-tailed Shearwaters a better conservation measurehttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/rescuing-light-downed-before-beach-washed-short-tailed-shearwaters-a-better-conservation-measure

17 March 2017 Airam Rodríguez (Research Department, Phillip Island Nature Parks, Cowes, Australia) and colleagues have published in the Journal of Wildlife Management on the condition of beach-washed and artificial light-downed Short-tailed Shearwater Ardenna...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
• Language: en-GB

Seabird mortality caused by land-based artificial lights reviewed: burrowing petrels worse off?https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/seabird-mortality-caused-by-land-based-artificial-lights-reviewed-burrowing-petrels-worse-off

10 February 2017 Airam Rodríguez (Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Seville, Spain) and colleagues have reviewed seabird mortality caused by artificial lighting in the journal Conservation Biology. They note that 56 species of petrels...

• Type: Article
• Author: John Cooper
• Category: ACAP Latest News
• Language: en-GB