Registration for the 13th International Seabird Group Conference is now open. The conference will be held over 6-9 September 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland in the John McIntyre Conference Centre, Pollock Halls, which is located close to the Scottish...
There are just two weeks remaining to the deadline for applications for the 2015 SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) and COMNAP (Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs fellowship Schemes. SCAR and COMNAP fellowships are worth...
Professor Peter Ryan has been appointed Director of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology at South Africa’s University of Cape Town with effect from the beginning of the month. Peter has been Acting Director of the “Fiztitute” since...
A full-time postdoctoral position is available in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of South Florida (USF), USA. The postdoc will work as part of a multinational, multi-institutional NSF Polar Program-funded project to study the...
The Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena is perhaps the most threatened species listed within the Albatross and Petrel Agreement, facing as it does the twin threats of chick predation by mice ashore and longlining mortality at sea...
ACAP Latest News has been publishing an occasional series on albatrosses and petrels in literature, with poems by Roy Campbell, Lewis Carroll, Pablo Neruda and others covered. This latest offering comes courtesy of Miguel McMinn who lives on Spain’s...
Dan Costa, Mark Hindell and Rory Wilson, all of whom have worked with ACAP-listed seabirds during their distinguished careers (click here). To organize a workshop contact Akiko Kato and Cecile Vincent with a tentative title, the name and affiliation of...
Qual Albatroz is a twice-monthly comic strip about a somewhat unusual colony of albatrosses lost somewhere in the south Pacific. The cartoons are drawn by Marc Parchow Figueiredo – who has never seen an albatross although he much wishes to do so. Marc...
Gehrman, Elizabeth 2012. Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man who brought it back from Extinction. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-1076-1. 240 pp. Hard cover. USD 26.95. Thirty years ago in August 1982 I attended...
Last month the Albatross and Petrel Agreement's honorary Information Officer, John Cooper was honoured by the Pacific Seabird Group with a Lifetime Achievement Award at its 39th Annual Meeting in Oahu, Hawaii (click here). Hot on the heels of this...