Record numbers of Scopoli’s and Yelkouan Shearwater fledglings downed by light pollution in Malta this yearhttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/record-numbers-of-scopoli-s-and-yelkouan-shearwater-fledglings-downed-by-light-pollution-in-malta-this-year

19 November 2018 Totals of 24 Scopoli’s Calonectris diomedea (Least Concern) and nine globally Vulnerable Yelkouan Puffinus yelkouan Shearwater fledglings have been found in the Maltese Islands following their downing by light pollution at night this year. Both totals...

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• Author: John Cooper
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Beached fledglings have heavier plastic loads than do road-killed fledglings in the Short-tailed Shearwaterhttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/beached-fledglings-have-heavier-plastic-loads-than-do-road-killed-fledglings-in-the-short-tailed-shearwater

13 November 2018 Airam Rodríguez (Conservation Department, Phillip Island Nature Parks, Cowes, Victoria, Australia) and colleagues have published in the journal Environmental Pollution on plastic pollution in the Short-tailed Shearwater Ardenna tenuirostris (Least...

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• Author: John Cooper
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Rehabilitated Newell’s Shearwaters have been satellite tagged since 2014 to assess effects of light pollution https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/fifty-three-endangered-newell-s-shearwaters-have-been-satellite-tagged-since-2014

06 November 2018 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...

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• Author: John Cooper
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Downed Newell’s Shearwater fledglings get a ceremony on release and Hawaiian Petrel chicks get translocated on Kauaihttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/downed-newell-s-shearwater-fledglings-get-a-ceremony-on-release-and-hawaiian-petrel-chicks-get-translocated-on-kauai

29 October 2018 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...

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• Author: John Cooper
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Scopoli’s Shearwater fledglings are at risk to light pollution in both Malta and the Balearic Islands this monthhttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/scopoli-s-shearwater-fledglings-are-at-risk-to-light-pollution-in-both-malta-and-the-balearic-islands-this-month

24 October 2018 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...

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• Author: John Cooper
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Rat control is helping threatened Yelkouan Shearwaters in Maltahttps://www.acap.aq/latest-news/rat-control-is-helping-threatened-yelkouan-shearwaters-in-malta

14 September 2018 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...

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• Author: John Cooper
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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
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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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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
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