ACAP-listed albatrosses will be featured at a seabird conference in Costa Rica next month

The Pacific Seabird Group and the Waterbird Society will hold a Joint Meeting from 6-9 January 2025 in San Jose, Costa Rica.  The combined meeting represents the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group and the 48th Annual Meeting of the Waterbird Society.

Detailed information on the meeting, including lists by title of oral and poster presentations is now available online.

Oral papers to be presented include a number on procellariiform seabirds; those on ACAP-listed species as identified by title follow:

INTERACTIONS BETWEEN BREEDING PROCELLARIFORMS AND INDUSTRIAL FISHERIES: LAYSAN ALBATROSS AND BLACK-VENTED SHEARWATER IN THE NORTHERN MEXICAN PACIFIC
Gemma Abaunza, Yuri Vladimir Albores-Barajas, Cecilia Soldatin

SPATIAL SEGREGATION AND BYCATCH RISK: A CASE STUDY OF BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSSES IN THE NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC
Haruka Hayashi, Bungo Nishizawa, NaokiTomita, Daisuke Shiode, Daisuke Ochi

QUANTIFYING IMPACTS OF SEABIRD BYCATCH USING GENETIC ASSIGNMENT: A CASE STUDY OF BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS IN U.S. FISHERIES
Jessie Beck, Diana Baetscher, Claire Tobin, Scott Edwards, Simon Wa Sin, Shannon Fitzgerald, Vanessa Tuttle, John Peschon,j Wesley Larson

Laysan Albatross, artwork by Lenina Villela of Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature for the inaugural World Albatross Day, 19 June 2020

A total of 79 posters will be displayed.  Two have ACAP-listed Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis as their subject; several others cover gadfly petrels, shearwaters and storm petrels.

SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL ATTRACTION OF LAYSAN ALBATROSS TO JAMES CAMPBELL NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ON OʻAHU, HAWAIʻI
Lauren Pederson, Eric VanderWerf, Robby Kohley, Erika Dittmar, Leilani Fowlke, Kelly Goodale

EVALUATING REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS OF WEDGE-TAILED SHEARWATERS AND LAYSAN ALBATROSS AT KILAUEA POINT NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE POST FENCE CONSTRUCTION
David Hanna, Dylan Blanchard, Lauren Pederson, Yuka Green, Louise Barnfield, Eric VanderWerf, Lindsay Young, Heather Abbey, Bryn Webber

View abstracts for the above and for the  other presentations here.

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 31 December 2024