Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Large numbers of Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels downed by light pollution this month

Endangered Newell’s Shearwaters Puffinus newellii and Vulnerable Hawaiian Petrels Pterodroma sandvicensis have been downed in numbers by night-time lights during foggy conditions on the Hawaiian island of Kauai over several days this month. Most of the...
Seabirds and Lights. A group for knowledge sharing about seabird attraction to lights

A website exists which considers the issue of light pollution affecting nocturnal breeding seabirds, a subject regularly covered in ACAP Latest News (click here). Newell's Shearwater: at risk to light pollution on Hawaii, photograph by Eric Vanderwerf...
Green for go: reducing light pollution effects on ACAP-listed Pink-footed Shearwaters

Most burrowing petrels and shearwaters visit and fledge from their burrows in the hours of darkness. Those species that breed on inhabited islands are susceptible to becoming disoriented and being downed by bright lights at night in urban areas– as has...
Effects of light pollution on fledging Balearic and Cory’s Shearwaters and European Storm Petrels in the Balearic Islands

Airam Rodríguez (Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Seville, Spain) and colleagues have published in the Journal of Ornithology on the effects of light pollution on fledging procellariiform species in the Balearic...
Effects of light pollution on fledging Cory’s Shearwaters on Tenerife, Canary Islands

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...
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

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,...
Plans to save the Near Threatened Cape Verde Shearwater

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...
Healthy Short-tailed Shearwater chicks contain plastic particles

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...
Artificial lights down Scopoli’s Shearwater fledglings in Malta

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...
Artificial lighting kills 39% of downed Short-tailed Shearwater fledglings in Australia

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...

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Large numbers of Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels downed by light pollution this month

Seabirds and Lights. A group for knowledge sharing about seabird attraction to lights

Green for go: reducing light pollution effects on ACAP-listed Pink-footed Shearwaters

Effects of light pollution on fledging Balearic and Cory’s Shearwaters and European Storm Petrels in the Balearic Islands

Effects of light pollution on fledging Cory’s Shearwaters on Tenerife, Canary Islands

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

Plans to save the Near Threatened Cape Verde Shearwater

Healthy Short-tailed Shearwater chicks contain plastic particles

Artificial lights down Scopoli’s Shearwater fledglings in Malta

Artificial lighting kills 39% of downed Short-tailed Shearwater fledglings in Australia

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