Effects of light pollution on fledging Cory’s Shearwaters on Tenerife, Canary Islandshttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/effects-of-light-pollution-on-fledging-cory-s-shearwaters-on-tenerife-canary-islands

08 June 2015 Airam Rodríguez (Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Seville, Spain) and colleagues have published in the on-line and open-access journal Scientific Reports on the effects of light pollution on fledging Cory’s Shearwater...

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

Crash-landed Hutton's Shearwater fledglings get rescued from the effects of light pollution in New Zealand while research on their at-sea movements continueshttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/crash-landed-hutton-s-shearwater-fledglings-get-rescued-from-the-effects-of-light-pollution-in-new-zealand-while-research-on-their-at-sea-movements-continues

23 March 2015 Over 180 Endangered Hutton's Puffinus huttoni Shearwater fledglings downed by bright lights have been rescued from roads in and around Kaikoura on New Zealand’s South Island so far this breeding season. Following capture the young birds are measured,...

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

Plans to save the Near Threatened Cape Verde Shearwaterhttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/plans-to-save-the-near-threatened-cape-verde-shearwater

30 January 2015 The following text is précised and adapted from a report by BirdLife International. About 20 participants from Cape Verde, Senegal, South Africa, Spain and Portugal participated in a workshop in Mindelo, Cape Verde from 1st to 4th December 2014, aiming...

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

Healthy Short-tailed Shearwater chicks contain plastic particleshttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/healthy-short-tailed-shearwater-chicks-contain-plastic-particles

27 November 2014 Hannah Cousin and colleagues have written on ingestion of plastics by Short-tailed Shearwaters Puffinus tenuirostris, now in press with the journal Emu – Austral Ornithology. The paper’s abstract follows: “In recent years, there has been increased...

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

Artificial lights down Scopoli’s Shearwater fledglings in Maltahttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/artificial-lights-down-scopoli-s-shearwater-fledglings-in-malta

01 November 2014 BirdLife Malta has reported 17 cases of young Scopoli’s Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea stranded inland due to the effects of light pollution in the past two weeks (click here). “Insensitive lighting from coastal development misleads these birds...

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

Artificial lighting kills 39% of downed Short-tailed Shearwater fledglings in Australiahttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/artificial-lighting-kills-39-of-downed-short-tailed-shearwater-fledglings-in-australia

28 October 2014 Airam Rodríguez (Phillip Island Nature Parks, Cowes, Victoria, Australia) and colleagues have published in the open-access online journal PloS ONE on light pollution affecting Short-tailed Shearwaters Puffinus tenuirostris. The paper’s abstract...

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

Malta’s Yelkouan Shearwaters are affected by light pollution when fledginghttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/malta-s-yelkouan-shearwaters-are-affected-by-light-pollution-when-fledging

01 August 2014 EU LIFE+ Malta Seabird Project researchers this month released four fledgling Yelkouan Shearwaters Puffinus yelkouan found disorientated by light pollution (click here to view a video of the release filmed under red light). The birds were released at...

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

Bad for burrowers: ecological consequences of night-time light pollutionhttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/bad-for-burrowers-ecological-consequences-of-night-time-light-pollution

09 July 2014 Night-time light pollution causes difficulties to breeding shearwaters, petrels and storm petrels, notably fledglings, at many localities around the World. For examples, click here to access publications on light pollution affecting Cory’s Shearwaters...

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

New study states plastic ingested by Flesh-footed Shearwaters is highest reported for any marine vertebratehttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/new-study-states-plastic-ingested-by-flesh-footed-shearwaters-is-highest-reported-for-any-marine-vertebrate

21 February 2014 Jennifer Lavers (School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia) and colleagues have published in the journal Environmental Pollution on plastic loads in fledgling Flesh-footed Shearwaters Puffinus carneipes. The paper’s abstract...

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

Hawaii’s Laysan Albatrosses to get another predator-proof fence, this time on Kauaihttps://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/2013-news-archive/hawaii-s-laysan-albatrosses-to-get-another-predator-proof-fence-this-time-on-kauai

15 June 2013 The predator-proof fence at Kaena Point on the Hawaiian island of Oahu that was erected in 2011 has already proven a success with improved breeding within it by both ACAP-listed Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters...

• Type: Article
• Author: John Cooper
• Category: 2013 News Archive
• Language: en-GB