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Taxonomic status of Shy and White-capped Albatrosses
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05-01-15 |
4909
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PCBs and corticosterone in Wandering Albatrosses and other polar seabirds
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04-01-15 |
3201
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UPDATED: Testing the Smart Tuna Hook
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03-01-15 |
4536
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UPDATED: Ecuador's Environmental Ministry hears of the NISURI tube to reduce seabird mortality in artisanal longlining
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02-01-15 |
4024
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Cephalopods in the diet of non-breeding Black-browed and Grey-headed Albatrosses
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01-01-15 |
3086
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Using vocalization playbacks to help identify restoration sites for burrowing petrels and shearwaters in New Zealand
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31-12-14 |
2776
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Moonlight affects colony attendance in Scopoli’s Shearwaters
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30-12-14 |
3729
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A botanical fence also protects Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels from feral pigs on Kaua’i
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29-12-14 |
3346
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To boldly breed where no shy Wandering Albatross has bred before
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28-12-14 |
3310
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Are there 25 000 Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwaters?
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27-12-14 |
3596
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Follow that krill: Short-tailed Shearwaters in the Arctic
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26-12-14 |
3257
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Season's greetings and all best wishes for 2015 from the ACAP Secretariat
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25-12-14 |
2945
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The end of breeding by Short-tailed Albatrosses on Midway Atoll?
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24-12-14 |
5163
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A World first: translocating albatross eggs to start a new colony
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23-12-14 |
7222
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Thousands of boats: challenges in reducing seabird bycatch in small-scale and artisanal fisheries
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22-12-14 |
3762
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The carrot or the knout? Comparing command-and-control and incentive-based approaches to reducing seabird bycatch
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21-12-14 |
2985
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Spectacled and White-chinned Petrels and other seabirds are killed by gillnets and longlines off southern Brazil
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20-12-14 |
2940
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Playing catch-up to longlining: the potential for albatross mortality in the New South Wales Ocean Trawl fishery requires study
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19-12-14 |
3036
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Seabird assemblages in Antarctica’s Drake Passage
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18-12-14 |
3474
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Twenty-seven-year-old Northern Royal Albatross pair at Taiaroa Head incubates its 10th egg
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17-12-14 |
3782
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Plans to control Norfolk Island’s rats and cats set to help both parrots and shearwaters
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16-12-14 |
3511
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Call for Application: ACAP Executive Secretary, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels
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15-12-14 |
3260
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ACAP Breeding Site No. 75. North-east Kauai, where Laysan Albatrosses breed on private lands - and a webcam has made one pair and its chick famous with two million hits
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14-12-14 |
6234
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Black and white warning panels fixed to gill nets are expected to reduce seabird mortality: a sensory ecology review
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13-12-14 |
2964
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Eight very large Marine Protected Areas totalling over three and a third million square kilometres surround breeding sites of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels
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12-12-14 |
3020
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Transfer of immunity from female parent vaccinated against Newcastle Disease to chick in Cory’s Shearwater
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11-12-14 |
2639
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The University of Barcelona produces a documentary on seabird bycatch in the Mediterranean in Catalán and Spanish
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10-12-14 |
2975
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The ACAP Secondment Programme calls for 2015 applications
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09-12-14 |
3116
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The symbolism of the albatross in Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick
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08-12-14 |
6936
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Does the Tropical Shearwater breed in Fiji?
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07-12-14 |
4212
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An update on research on the ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwater
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06-12-14 |
2759
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Registration for the 2nd World Seabird Conference in Cape Town October 2015 opens
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05-12-14 |
3160
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2nd Symposium on the Conservation of Marine and Coastal Birds in the Mediterranean to be held in Tunisia next February is expected to discuss the ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwater
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04-12-14 |
3931
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Identifying suitable breeding sites for Hawaii’s Endangered Newell’s Shearwaters by modelling their habitat
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03-12-14 |
3213
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The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission is meeting this week and improved seabird mitigation for small vessels is on the agenda
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02-12-14 |
3060
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Northern Royal Albatrosses return to breed in numbers on New Zealand’s mainland at Taiaroa Head
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01-12-14 |
3637
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Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwaters are killed by Portuguese purse seines and set nets
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30-11-14 |
3733
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Sixty-something Wisdom the Laysan Albatross returns to Midway for yet another breeding season
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29-11-14 |
5473
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Tracing Flesh-footed Shearwaters killed by fisheries to their breeding colonies via feather trace metal analysis
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28-11-14 |
3460
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Healthy Short-tailed Shearwater chicks contain plastic particles
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27-11-14 |
3681
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Assessing the levels of unobserved mortality in New Zealand longline and trawl fisheries
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26-11-14 |
4000
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White-capped Albatrosses on New Zealand’s Auckland Islands get counted from aerial photographs over eight years, suggesting a stable population
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25-11-14 |
4544
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Kure’s Short-tailed Albatross female-female pair returns to the atoll and lays two eggs for a fifth consecutive season
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24-11-14 |
3817
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Conservation law and the Black Petrel: a New Zealand PhD thesis takes a legal view
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23-11-14 |
3845
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ACAP Breeding Site No. 74. Wake Atoll, at the edge of the breeding range of North Pacific albatrosses
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22-11-14 |
4608
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ACAP to hold its Fifth Meeting of Parties in Spain’s Canary Islands on Tenerife in May next year
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21-11-14 |
3842
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Call for 2015 ACAP Small Grants applications: AUD 80 000 available
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20-11-14 |
3878
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Kiribati and the USA sign an agreement to protect the Phoenix Ocean Arc in the Pacific
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19-11-14 |
3937
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A PhD gets awarded for studying the marine ecosystem of the Prince Edward Islands
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18-11-14 |
3571
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South Africa’s Marion Island is still the largest from which feral cats have been eradicated – 23 years on
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17-11-14 |
3657
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Questions to consider when planning the tracking of albatrosses and petrels by satellite or GPS
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16-11-14 |
4041
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Black-browed and Salvin’s Albatrosses and both giant petrels visit Chilean oceanic islands in the South Pacific
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15-11-14 |
3468
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ACAP attends two tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organization meetings in Japan to discuss seabird bycatch in high-seas longline fisheries
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14-11-14 |
3534
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Assessing plastic ingestion in Short-tailed and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters via the uropygial gland
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13-11-14 |
3538
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Albatross, cat, mouse and rat: adversaries on invaded islands all get their stories told in Reaktion Books’ Animal Series
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12-11-14 |
6181
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Cross-border collaboration to protect threatened species: the case of Canada, the USA and the Short-tailed Albatross
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11-11-14 |
3962
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Commission on Migratory Species adopts a resolution on marine debris while meeting in Ecuador
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10-11-14 |
4046
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Manx Shearwaters get a boost on United Kingdom islands
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09-11-14 |
3962
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Incubation costs in seabirds, including some albatrosses and petrels, get reviewed
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08-11-14 |
3404
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Female Black-browed Albatrosses “exhibit more variable behaviours” when foraging than do males
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07-11-14 |
4200
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UPDATED Consensus not achieved once again: no new MPAs established in the Southern Ocean by CCAMLR this year
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06-11-14 |
3601
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New Zealand holds a Seabird of the Year competition: will an ACAP-listed species win?
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05-11-14 |
3526
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The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project gets formally assessed as a “great result”
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04-11-14 |
5065
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Modelling the Prince Edward Islands: home of nine species of ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels
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03-11-14 |
3763
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A pledge to help the Black Petrel gets signed in New Zealand
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02-11-14 |
3493
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Artificial lights down Scopoli’s Shearwater fledglings in Malta
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01-11-14 |
3800
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Saving albatrosses: BirdLife South Africa’s Ross Wanless receives Environmentalist of the Year award
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31-10-14 |
4073
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At least 15 Reindeer remain on a South Atlantic seabird island following a two-year eradication programme
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30-10-14 |
4675
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ACAP supports the first aerial census of Endangered Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses on the UK’s Gough Island
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29-10-14 |
4568
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Artificial lighting kills 39% of downed Short-tailed Shearwater fledglings in Australia
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28-10-14 |
3916
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Keeping mongooses off the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i is a priority for threatened Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwaters
|
27-10-14 |
3841
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Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air: “Echoes” by Pink Floyd
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26-10-14 |
5793
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The Eleventh Chilean Ornithological Congress heard about the Pink-footed Shearwater - an ACAP candidate species – last week
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25-10-14 |
3738
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Facing into the wind: the complicated fate of the Laysan Albatross. An illustrated account by Hugh Powell
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24-10-14 |
4362
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Night strikes on a Tristan Rock Lobster fishing vessel do not impact on ACAP-listed petrels
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23-10-14 |
3742
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Concern expressed over the conservation status of New Zealand’s Black Petrel
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22-10-14 |
3451
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Report of the latest ACAP Advisory Committee meeting announces the Fifth Meeting of Parties will convene in Spain’s Canary Islands on Tenerife next May
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21-10-14 |
3464
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ACAP presents a report on seabird bycatch in adjacent fisheries to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources this week
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20-10-14 |
3491
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Australia’s sub-Antarctic Heard Island and McDonald Islands get a new management plan
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19-10-14 |
6362
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Canada updates its assessment of the conservation status of the Short-tailed Albatross, a non-breeding visitor to its Pacific waters
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18-10-14 |
3537
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Utilizing beached Manx Shearwaters to monitor environmental health
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17-10-14 |
4789
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Alone in the Atlantic: at least one pair of Tristan Albatrosses continues to breed on mouse-free Inaccessible Island
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16-10-14 |
4186
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Brown Skuas videoed stealing eggs from underneath incubating Northern Giant Petrels
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15-10-14 |
5037
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Below 10% for the first time: Tristan Albatrosses have their least successful breeding year on Gough Island since recording commenced in 2000
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14-10-14 |
7981
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Most northerly Southern Giant Petrels on Gough Island gets counted for the third year in a row, suggesting a stable population
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13-10-14 |
4195
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Surviving in New Zealand: should the Flesh-footed Shearwater have a threatened status?
|
12-10-14 |
3461
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Female-female Laysan Albatross pairs fledge chicks from fostered eggs
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11-10-14 |
4731
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The USA gets its second predator-proof fence to protect albatrosses and shearwaters on the Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i
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10-10-14 |
4647
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Population status and threats to Flesh-footed Shearwaters in South and Western Australia
|
09-10-14 |
3618
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International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas progresses seabird bycatch mitigation at a meeting in Portugal
|
08-10-14 |
3404
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Which ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels occur in the Mozambique Channel?
|
07-10-14 |
3672
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|
Individual differences in migration strategies of Italian Scopoli's Shearwaters
|
06-10-14 |
3641
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Book review: “Garbage Guts” by Heidi Auman explores the dangers of plastic pollution to marine life through the eyes of a Laysan Albatross
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05-10-14 |
6991
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|
Pinkie and the Scarer: effectiveness of two seabird mitigation devices on Australian trawlers
|
04-10-14 |
3971
|
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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and the conservation of albatrosses down the ages
|
03-10-14 |
4095
|
|
The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation discusses seabird mortality and mitigation this week
|
02-10-14 |
3228
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Keeping seabirds off the hook (and away from the trawl): how many FAO National Plans of Action - Seabirds have been adopted around the World since 1998?
|
01-10-14 |
3262
|
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President Obama expands the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument at the edge of the breeding range of Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses
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30-09-14 |
3923
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Moving iron around the Southern Ocean: what can Northern Giant Petrels contribute?
|
29-09-14 |
3692
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The at-sea distributions of albatrosses and petrels in the Southern Ocean get mapped
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28-09-14 |
3428
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