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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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A 40-year old Cory’s Shearwater recovered in South Africa is a new age record
The 40-year old Cory's Shearwater soon after collection On 19 January 2020 a Cory's Shearwater Calonectris borealis with band No. 005286 was retrieved alive from Hobie Beach, Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape South Africa by Chanel Gemae Hauvette, Marine...
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The United Kingdom’s Seabird Group will celebrate World Albatross Day with ACAP
The Seabird Group, a registered charity based in the United Kingdom, was founded in 1966 to promote and help coordinate the study and conservation of seabirds. Three years later, the Seabird Group initiated Operation Seafarer, the first attempt to...
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Manx Shearwater groundings in Scotland influenced by moon and wind
Martyna Syposz (Department of Biology, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK) and colleagues have published open access in the journal Ibis on the reasons for the grounding of fledgling Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus. The paper’s abstract...
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Saving seabirds: draft National Light Pollution Guidelines released for comment by Australia
Australia’s Department of the Environment and Energy has released for public comment Draft National Light Pollution Guidelines for Wildlife Including marine turtles, seabirds and migratory shorebirds. “The National Light Pollution Guidelines aim to...
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Haven’t the foggiest: light pollution causes more building collisions in Manx Shearwaters
Tim Guilford (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK) and colleagues have published open access in the 2019 volume of the journal Seabird on how Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus react to artificial light at night The paper’s abstract...
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Buller’s Shearwaters die after being dazzled by a cruise liner in New Zealand waters
Cruise vessels in New Zealand waters are being asked to dim their night lighting to avoid dazzling seabirds after globally Vulnerable and nationally Naturally Uncommon Buller's Shearwaters Ardenna bulleri came aboard the cruise liner Pacific Jewel late...
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Future directions in conservation research on petrels, shearwaters, storm petrels and diving petrels – a review
Airam Rodríguez (Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Seville, Spain) and many colleagues have published an open-access review in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science on threats facing those procellariiform seabirds...
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Add them to the (long) list: Barau’s Petrels and Tropical Shearwaters also ingest plastic particles
Audrey Cartraud (Université de la Réunion, UMR ENTROPIE, Saint-Denis, Reunion Island, France) and colleagues have published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin on ingestion of plastic by seabirds in the western Indian Ocean, including globally Endangered...
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