Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Sardinian workshop reassesses Yelkouan and Cory's Shearwater populations in the Mediterranean

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...
** 23 August UPDATE ** Tristan oiling disaster. "Tristan" the oiled albatross finally flies away

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...
The Yelkouan Shearwater requires immediate management actions to avoid on-going population declines

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...
UPDATED Not junk food for dinner again! Short-tailed Shearwater fledglings get fed plastic particles by their parents

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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