South African research on albatrosses and petrels at the Prince Edward Islands and Gough Island gets exposure in New Zealandhttps://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/2012-news-archive/south-african-research-on-albatrosses-and-petrels-at-the-prince-edward-islands-and-gough-island-gets-exposure-in-new-zealand

27 August 2012 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 particleshttps://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/2012-news-archive/no-clean-sea-corys-shearwater-fledglings-from-the-canaries-contain-plastic-particles

17 July 2012 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 fledginghttps://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/2012-news-archive/downy-corys-shearwaters-are-more-at-risk-to-light-pollution-when-fledging

03 May 2012 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 Islandshttps://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/2012-news-archive/more-on-light-effects-on-corys-shearwaters-this-time-in-spains-canary-islands

30 March 2012 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 Azoreshttps://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/2012-news-archive/get-that-light-out-of-my-eyes-light-pollution-grounds-corys-shearwater-fledglings-in-the-azores

24 March 2012 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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• Author: John Cooper
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Monitoring Wedge-tailed Shearwaters at Freeman Seabird Preserve, Oahu, Hawaiihttps://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/2012-news-archive/monitoring-wedge-tailed-shearwaters-at-freeman-seabird-preserve-oahu-hawaii

26 February 2012 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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• Author: John Cooper
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Sardinian workshop reassesses Yelkouan and Cory's Shearwater populations in the Mediterraneanhttps://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/2012-news-archive/sardinian-workshop-reassesses-yelkouan-and-corys-shearwater-populations-in-the-mediterranean

10 January 2012 Two days of workshops were hosted by BirdLife International over 18-19 October 2011 in Alghero, Sardinia to develop population assessments for Cory's Calonectris diomedea and Yelkouan Puffinus yelkouan Shearwaters. The workshop followed immediately...

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** 23 August UPDATE ** Tristan oiling disaster. "Tristan" the oiled albatross finally flies awayhttps://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/2011-news-archive/breaking-news-bulk-carrier-ms-oliva-has-run-aground-on-tristans-nightingale-island

23 August 2011 Oliva oiling disaster update "Tristan", the only albatross (molly) known to be oiled by the Oliva disaster, finally flew away last month On 16 July the fledgling Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos left the main island of...

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The Yelkouan Shearwater requires immediate management actions to avoid on-going population declineshttps://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/2011-news-archive/the-yelkouan-shearwater-requires-immediate-management-actions-to-avoid-on-going-population-declines

10 July 2011 Steffen Oppel (RSPB) and colleagues writing in the journal Biological Conservation have looked at the conservation status of the Near Threatened Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan (a potential candidate ACAP species) at French and Maltese colonies...

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• Author: John Cooper
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UPDATED Not junk food for dinner again! Short-tailed Shearwater fledglings get fed plastic particles by their parentshttps://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/2011-news-archive/not-junk-food-for-dinner-again-short-tailed-shearwater-fledglings-get-fed-plastic-particles-by-their-parents

23 June 2011 Mark Carey of the Department of Environmental Management and Ecology, La Trobe University, Wodonga, Australia has studied the levels of ingested plastic in fledgling Short-tailed Shearwaters Puffinus tenuirostris, a potential candidate species for...

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• Author: John Cooper
• Category: 2011 News Archive