Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Rehabilitated Newell’s Shearwaters have been satellite tagged since 2014 to assess effects of light pollution

The last rehabilitated Newell’s Shearwater or ʻAʻo Puffinus newelli carrying a back-mounted satellite tag was released to sea from the Hawaiian island of Kauai on 18 October. The release represents the culmination of a project started in 2014 by the...
Downed Newell’s Shearwater fledglings get a ceremony on release and Hawaiian Petrel chicks get translocated on Kauai

Earlier this month the Kauai Endangered Seabird Recovery Project (KESRP) held its annual E Ho‘opomaika‘i ‘ia na Manu ‘A‘o (A Cultural Release of the Native Newell’s Shearwater) event on the Hawaiian island of Kauai following rehabilitation by the Save...
Scopoli’s Shearwater fledglings are at risk to light pollution in both Malta and the Balearic Islands this month

Once more it’s shearwater fledging time in the Mediterranean. Both Malta and Spain’s Balearic Islands are urging their public to help rescue fledging Scopoli’s Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea (Least Concern) who become stranded before they reached the...
Rat control is helping threatened Yelkouan Shearwaters in Malta

The globally Vulnerable Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan has been having a good breeding season in the Maltese Islands, home to approximately 10% of the global population of this seabird species (equating to around 2000 breeding pairs), according...
Yelkouan Shearwater fledglings downed by lights in Malta get rescued and released

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...
New Zealand’s endemic Hutton’s Shearwaters fledge with a farewell ceremony in the face of continued light pollution

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)...
Son et lumière: how do breeding Scopoli’s Shearwaters respond to light and sound disturbance?

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...
Wind, moon and light: modelling groundings of fledging Manx Shearwaters

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:...
New Zealand’s endemic Hutton’s Shearwaters are at risk from lights, cats and cars

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...
“Like moths to a candle flame”: what type of night-time lights are the worse for Short-tailed Shearwaters?

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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Rehabilitated Newell’s Shearwaters have been satellite tagged since 2014 to assess effects of light pollution

Downed Newell’s Shearwater fledglings get a ceremony on release and Hawaiian Petrel chicks get translocated on Kauai

Scopoli’s Shearwater fledglings are at risk to light pollution in both Malta and the Balearic Islands this month

Rat control is helping threatened Yelkouan Shearwaters in Malta

Yelkouan Shearwater fledglings downed by lights in Malta get rescued and released

New Zealand’s endemic Hutton’s Shearwaters fledge with a farewell ceremony in the face of continued light pollution

Son et lumière: how do breeding Scopoli’s Shearwaters respond to light and sound disturbance?

Wind, moon and light: modelling groundings of fledging Manx Shearwaters

New Zealand’s endemic Hutton’s Shearwaters are at risk from lights, cats and cars

“Like moths to a candle flame”: what type of night-time lights are the worse for Short-tailed Shearwaters?

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels