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Malta’s Yelkouan Shearwaters are affected by light pollution when fledging
EU LIFE+ Malta Seabird Project researchers this month released four fledgling Yelkouan Shearwaters Puffinus yelkouan found disorientated by light pollution (click here to view a video of the release filmed under red light). The birds were released at...
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Bad for burrowers: ecological consequences of night-time light pollution
Night-time light pollution causes difficulties to breeding shearwaters, petrels and storm petrels, notably fledglings, at many localities around the World. For examples, click here to access publications on light pollution affecting Cory’s Shearwaters...
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New study states plastic ingested by Flesh-footed Shearwaters is highest reported for any marine vertebrate
Jennifer Lavers (School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia) and colleagues have published in the journal Environmental Pollution on plastic loads in fledgling Flesh-footed Shearwaters Puffinus carneipes. The paper’s abstract...
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Hawaii’s Laysan Albatrosses to get another predator-proof fence, this time on Kauai
The predator-proof fence at Kaena Point on the Hawaiian island of Oahu that was erected in 2011 has already proven a success with improved breeding within it by both ACAP-listed Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters...
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South African research on albatrosses and petrels at the Prince Edward Islands and Gough Island gets exposure in New Zealand
A contingent of six marine ornithologists (John Cooper, Robert Crawford, Bruce Dyer, Genevieve Jones, Azwianewi Makhado and Ross Wanless) from South Africa attended the Fifth International Albatross and Petrel Conference held in Wellington, New Zealand...
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No clean sea: Cory's Shearwater fledglings from the Canaries contain plastic particles
Airam Rodríguez (Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana Seville, Spain) and colleagues writing in the Marine Pollution Bulletin have looked at ingested plastic particles in fledgling Cory's Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea....
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Downy Cory's Shearwaters are more at risk to light pollution when fledging
Airam Rodríguez (Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Seville, Spain) and colleagues, writing in the journal Animal Conservation, have looked at Cory's Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea being affected by light pollution when...
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More on light effects on Cory's Shearwaters, this time in Spain's Canary Islands
Airam Rodríguez (Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Seville, Spain) and colleagues, writing in the journal Ibis, have looked at the deleterious effects of light pollution on shearwaters and petrels in the Canary Islands....
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Get that light out of my eyes! Light pollution grounds Cory's Shearwater fledglings in the Azores
Pedro Rodrigues (Department of Biology, University of the Azores, Portugal) and colleagues, writing in the European Journal of Wildlife Research, have looked at the effects of light pollution on Cory's Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea breeding in the...
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Monitoring Wedge-tailed Shearwaters at Freeman Seabird Preserve, Oahu, Hawaii
Like many other petrels, the Wedge-tailed Shearwater Puffinus pacificus is impacted by introduced mammalian predators (i.e. rats, cats) and by human development and encroachment of their colonies (i.e. trampling of burrows, light pollution). At Black...
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