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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 |
3653
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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 |
3445
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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 |
3221
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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 |
6082
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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 |
2899
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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 |
2950
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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 |
2596
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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 |
2910
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The ACAP Secondment Programme calls for 2015 applications
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09-12-14 |
3078
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The symbolism of the albatross in Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick
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08-12-14 |
6797
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Does the Tropical Shearwater breed in Fiji?
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07-12-14 |
4145
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An update on research on the ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwater
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06-12-14 |
2709
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Registration for the 2nd World Seabird Conference in Cape Town October 2015 opens
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05-12-14 |
3100
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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 |
3883
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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 |
3137
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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 |
3001
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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 |
3570
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Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwaters are killed by Portuguese purse seines and set nets
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30-11-14 |
3666
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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 |
5331
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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 |
3389
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Healthy Short-tailed Shearwater chicks contain plastic particles
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27-11-14 |
3629
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Assessing the levels of unobserved mortality in New Zealand longline and trawl fisheries
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26-11-14 |
3957
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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 |
4498
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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 |
3734
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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 |
3808
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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 |
4566
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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 |
3804
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Call for 2015 ACAP Small Grants applications: AUD 80 000 available
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20-11-14 |
3799
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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 |
3883
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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 |
3523
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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 |
3583
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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 |
3983
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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 |
3433
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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 |
3504
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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 |
3497
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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 |
6025
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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 |
3895
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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 |
4014
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Manx Shearwaters get a boost on United Kingdom islands
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09-11-14 |
3888
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Incubation costs in seabirds, including some albatrosses and petrels, get reviewed
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08-11-14 |
3361
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Female Black-browed Albatrosses “exhibit more variable behaviours” when foraging than do males
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07-11-14 |
4132
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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 |
3540
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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 |
3479
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The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project gets formally assessed as a “great result”
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04-11-14 |
4883
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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 |
3699
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A pledge to help the Black Petrel gets signed in New Zealand
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02-11-14 |
3461
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Artificial lights down Scopoli’s Shearwater fledglings in Malta
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01-11-14 |
3733
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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 |
4041
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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 |
4625
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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 |
4415
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Artificial lighting kills 39% of downed Short-tailed Shearwater fledglings in Australia
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28-10-14 |
3871
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Keeping mongooses off the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i is a priority for threatened Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwaters
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27-10-14 |
3742
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Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air: “Echoes” by Pink Floyd
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26-10-14 |
5722
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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 |
3670
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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 |
4299
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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 |
3653
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Concern expressed over the conservation status of New Zealand’s Black Petrel
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22-10-14 |
3384
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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 |
3425
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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 |
3449
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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 |
6311
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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 |
3482
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Utilizing beached Manx Shearwaters to monitor environmental health
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17-10-14 |
4634
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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 |
4065
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Brown Skuas videoed stealing eggs from underneath incubating Northern Giant Petrels
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15-10-14 |
4986
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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 |
7870
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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 |
4056
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Surviving in New Zealand: should the Flesh-footed Shearwater have a threatened status?
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12-10-14 |
3415
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Female-female Laysan Albatross pairs fledge chicks from fostered eggs
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11-10-14 |
4660
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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 |
4538
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Population status and threats to Flesh-footed Shearwaters in South and Western Australia
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09-10-14 |
3545
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International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas progresses seabird bycatch mitigation at a meeting in Portugal
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08-10-14 |
3359
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Which ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels occur in the Mozambique Channel?
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07-10-14 |
3619
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Individual differences in migration strategies of Italian Scopoli's Shearwaters
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06-10-14 |
3580
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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 |
6881
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Pinkie and the Scarer: effectiveness of two seabird mitigation devices on Australian trawlers
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04-10-14 |
3903
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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and the conservation of albatrosses down the ages
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03-10-14 |
4016
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The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation discusses seabird mortality and mitigation this week
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02-10-14 |
3166
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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?
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01-10-14 |
3226
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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 |
3875
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Moving iron around the Southern Ocean: what can Northern Giant Petrels contribute?
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29-09-14 |
3626
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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 |
3364
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Bird-scaring lines to be adopted in the USA’s Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery to help keep Short-tailed Albatrosses off the hook
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27-09-14 |
2968
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Manx Shearwaters breed successfully on a United Kingdom island freed of its rats
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26-09-14 |
3859
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Work on Black-browed Albatross data from the South Atlantic: an employment opportunity in Portugal
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25-09-14 |
4366
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From Hawaii to Oregon and California: two colour-banded Black-footed Albatrosses photographed at sea
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24-09-14 |
4196
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Busy season: counting giant petrels in the Southern Ocean starts the round of summer censuses
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23-09-14 |
4087
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Crossing the line: trans-equatorial migrations of the Short-tailed Shearwater shown by geolocators
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22-09-14 |
3869
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Namibia’s NPOA-Seabirds and Gough’s mice: ACAP ends its Eighth Advisory Committee meeting in Uruguay
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21-09-14 |
4689
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Releasing rehabilitated albatrosses and petrels: avoiding the pathogen problem
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20-09-14 |
3687
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A Short-tailed Albatross gets hooked in USA waters
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19-09-14 |
3697
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Looking after its endemic albatrosses and petrels: Tristan da Cunha gets an updated Biodiversity Action Plan
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18-09-14 |
4627
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ACAP's meetings in Uruguay in pictures
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17-09-14 |
6461
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ACAP meeting attendees brave the weather to watch giant petrels at sea in Uruguay
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16-09-14 |
4619
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The USA publishes a progress report on the implementation of its National Plan of Action – Seabirds
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15-09-14 |
3462
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Gough Island reckoned the highest priority for the eradication of its alien House Mice among United Kingdom’s overseas islands by a comparative review
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14-09-14 |
4830
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Asian high-seas fishing nation increases the number of required mitigation measures for its 1000 longliners with an updated National Plan of Action - Seabirds
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13-09-14 |
3534
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Australia updates its Threat Abatement Plan for seabird mortality caused by longline fishing
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12-09-14 |
3884
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ACAP's Seabird Bycatch Group gets started in Punta del Este at its sixth meeting: fly-back injuries, sliding lead weights, lazy lines, hook pods and net chokes
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11-09-14 |
3593
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ACAP’s Population and Conservation Status Working Group completes its 2014 meeting: lasers and eyeballs, hook removal guidelines and criteria for identifying candidate species for listing
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10-09-14 |
3609
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ACAP’s Population and Conservation Working Group has a successful first day in Uruguay: robot camera, pathogen review, status and trends, the serious plight of Gough’s Tristan Albatrosses and more
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09-09-14 |
4648
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