Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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

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

Malta’s Yelkouan Shearwaters are affected by light pollution when fledging

Bad for burrowers: ecological consequences of night-time light pollution

New study states plastic ingested by Flesh-footed Shearwaters is highest reported for any marine vertebrate

Hawaii’s Laysan Albatrosses to get another predator-proof fence, this time on Kauai

South African research on albatrosses and petrels at the Prince Edward Islands and Gough Island gets exposure in New Zealand

No clean sea: Cory's Shearwater fledglings from the Canaries contain plastic particles

Downy Cory's Shearwaters are more at risk to light pollution when fledging

More on light effects on Cory's Shearwaters, this time in Spain's Canary Islands

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels