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Light Pollution to be the focus for World Migratory Bird Day in 2022
Street lights down ACAP-listed Westland Petrel fledglings in New Zealand - resulting in road kills from traffic World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) is an annual awareness-raising campaign highlighting the need for the conservation of migratory birds and...
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Red best. Mitigating light pollution on Manx Shearwaters by varying wavelengths
A Manx Shearwater rests among flowers on a breeding island, photograph by Chris Perrins Msrtyna Syposz (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK) and colleagues have published in the open-access journal Scientific Reports on laspects of ight...
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Tracking the migration of the Yelkouan Shearwater from Croatia into the Black Sea
Tracking the Yelkouan Shearwater from Croatia Seabirds in the Mediterranean are increasingly threatened by climate change, depletion of sea food resources, and other human related impacts (by-catch capture, artificial light pollution, habitat...
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Assessing light pollution impacts on Pink-footed Shearwaters and other seabirds in Chile
Pink-footed Shearwater at sea, photograph by Kirk Zufelt Writing in Spanish, Rodrigo Silva (Programa Aves Marinas, Red de Observadores de Aves y Vida Silvestre de Chile) and colleagues have reviewed the impacts of light pollution on 17 species of...
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Attracted to the bright lights: Wedge-tailed Shearwater fallout in Hawaii
A Wedge-tailed Shearwater pair Brooke Friswold (Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Management, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) and colleagues have published open access in the journal Marine Ornithology on fledging...
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Virot petit, la contaminació lumínica - Balearic Shearwater and light pollution
La contaminació lumínica de les zones urbanes costaneres de les Illes Balears atrau cada any exemplars joves de virot petit en el seu primer vol cap al mar. Aquests joves poden acabar desorientats en el nuclis urbans, on poden ser atropellats per...
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Kauai Humane Society’s Save Our Shearwaters will celebrate World Albatross Day this month
Save Our Shearwaters is located within the Kauai Humane Society on the Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i and rehabilitates native Hawaiian birds. “Initiated by the Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources/Division of Forestry and Wildlife in 1979 to...
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The Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust wholeheartedly endorses World Albatross Day
The globally Endangered and Nationally Vulnerable Hutton’s Shearwater Puffinus huttoni is a New Zealand endemic that breeds only in coastal mountains near Kaikoura on South Island. It is at risk at its only two breeding sites to feral pigs and...
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An exhibition marking World Albatross Day on 19 June is being constructed at the National Museum of Natural History, Mdina – Malta
Scopoli's Shearwater at sea, photograph by John Borg Mediterranean pelagic seabirds, like their big cousins, are continuously facing threats through human activities. Accidental by-catch is not confined to the southern oceans, our three species of...
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The threatened Yelkouan Shearwater gets an international research project to study its movements at sea
The globally Vulnerable Yelkouan or Mediterreanean Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan is endemic to the Mediterranean and Black Seas. At risk from fisheries at sea and introduced predators and light pollution on land, it has been identified in the past as a...
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