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Saving the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross: one year to go before the campaign to eradicate Gough Island’s House Mice commences
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18-05-18 |
1585
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Bird-scaring lines do not deter shearwaters from Mediterranean longliners in calm conditions; night setting the best option
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17-05-18 |
1362
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Stinker Point’s Southern Giant Petrels are increasing in numbers
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16-05-18 |
1383
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South Georgia (Islas Georgias del Sur)* declared free of introduced rodents after a long campaign
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15-05-18 |
2297
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ACAP’s Meeting of Parties completes a successful 6th Session in South Africa
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14-05-18 |
1565
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ACAP MoP6 delegates go on game drives in the Kruger National Park
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11-05-18 |
1336
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Book review: Toroa’s Journey. A new albatross book for children
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10-05-18 |
2438
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A miscellany of faces at ACAP's Sixth Meeting of Parties in Kruger National Park
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09-05-18 |
1463
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ACAP's Meeting of Parties in South Africa formally opened by Dr Luthando Dziba of National Parks
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08-05-18 |
1595
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An Atlantic Yellow Nosed Albatross from Gough Island is found dead in Brazil after swallowing the sole of a shoe less than a month after fledging
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07-05-18 |
2267
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ACAP's Sixth Meeting of Parties gets started in South Africa's Kruger National Park
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07-05-18 |
1458
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France is to adopt a second National Plan of Action for the Amsterdam Albatross later this year
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04-05-18 |
2215
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Wedge-tailed Shearwaters from Japan’s Ogasawara Islands prey on deep-sea fish, suggesting night-time foraging
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03-05-18 |
1493
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New Zealand’s Westland Petrels foraging in the Tasman Sea co-occur with trawl fisheries
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02-05-18 |
1722
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Kauai’s Laysan Albatross chicks come through a monster storm
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01-05-18 |
1884
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Te Papa Museum’s marine ornithologists blog on New Zealand’s albatrosses and petrels
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30-04-18 |
1577
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New Zealand’s endemic Hutton’s Shearwaters fledge with a farewell ceremony in the face of continued light pollution
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27-04-18 |
1873
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Yelkouan Shearwaters get caught by Turkish recreational fishers from the shore: a novel threat for tubenoses?
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26-04-18 |
1170
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BOU John & Pat Warham Studentship for tubenose and penguin research opens for 2019 applications
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25-04-18 |
1424
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Fifth and last season of translocated Chatham Albatrosses successfully completed as last hand-reared chick fledges
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24-04-18 |
1958
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Non-breeding Wandering Albatrosses forage less successfully as they age, leading to reduced breeding success
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23-04-18 |
1690
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Employment opportunity to help save the Tristan Albatross: Operational Logistics Manager required for the Gough Island Restoration Programme
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20-04-18 |
2143
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Rodent-detection dogs to be deployed on the Hawaiian island of Lehua in response to rat sightings after a poison bait drop
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19-04-18 |
1560
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Nematode infection in a Grey-headed Albatross chick at Marion Island
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18-04-18 |
1218
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A Grey-headed Albatross incubates a pseudo-egg made of vegetation
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17-04-18 |
1347
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Employment opportunity: minimising bycatch of seabirds and sea turtles in West African industrial fisheries
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16-04-18 |
1513
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Ticking off the Big Five: ACAP Meeting of Party delegates to be taken on game drives in South Africa next month
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13-04-18 |
1259
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Finding unknown seabird colonies by satellite: solving the case of the missing Antarctic Petrels
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12-04-18 |
1399
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A French group develops a toolkit to study seabird–fishery interactions
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11-04-18 |
1992
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Warming seas may create a mismatch between seabird breeding and prey availability
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10-04-18 |
1601
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Year-round tracking of White-chinned Petrels from South Africa’s Marion Island
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09-04-18 |
1447
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First study of ingestion of plastics by Short-tailed Albatrosses
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06-04-18 |
1338
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Trapping introduced predators in the Northern Royal Albatross colony at Taiaroa Head
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05-04-18 |
1707
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Chile’s Isla Noir supports 1750 breeding pairs of Southern Giant Petrels
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04-04-18 |
1453
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The fifth and last hand-reared cohort of Chatham Albatrosses commences fledging from Point Gap
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03-04-18 |
1706
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First hand-reared Laysan Albatross returns to the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge as a three-year old
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02-04-18 |
1726
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SCAR and COMNAP Fellowships and CCAMLR Scholarship for early-career researchers are available again this year
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30-03-18 |
1224
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Employment opportunity: ACAP looks for its third Executive Secretary
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29-03-18 |
1718
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ACAP updates its best-practice advice for mitigating seabird mortality in longline and trawl fisheries
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28-03-18 |
1197
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New Zealand’s Antipodes Island proclaimed mouse free after a successful eradication exercise
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27-03-18 |
1926
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Hookpod trials to go commercial on Brazilian longliners
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26-03-18 |
1715
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Lord Howe rodent eradication postponed to next year to allow more time for planning
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23-03-18 |
1807
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Draft Environmental Assessment to rid Midway of its albatross-attacking mice by aerial baiting released for comment
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22-03-18 |
1682
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Two New Large Marine Protected Areas in the South Atlantic declared by Brazil
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21-03-18 |
1542
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Abstract submissions for the 14th International Seabird Group Conference close next week
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20-03-18 |
1231
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Kaena Point’s Laysan Albatrosses are doing well, as translocation plans are made for two more tubenose species in the Hawaiian islands
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19-03-18 |
1330
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Help conserve threatened seabirds on a World Heritage site: employment opportunities on Gough Island
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16-03-18 |
1451
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Is it a breeze? Cory’s Shearwater migration not dependent on favourable winds
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15-03-18 |
1336
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Son et lumière: how do breeding Scopoli’s Shearwaters respond to light and sound disturbance?
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14-03-18 |
1361
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ACAP’s Sixth Meeting of Parties, Skukuza, South Africa, May 2018: documentation now available
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13-03-18 |
2115
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Diets of eight Northern Pacific seabirds, including of the Laysan Albatross, used to study marine changes
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12-03-18 |
1361
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“Tacking like sailboats”: Wandering Albatross flight in the Southern Ocean
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09-03-18 |
1299
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Language students assist the ACAP Secretariat for another year
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08-03-18 |
1469
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Blue Plate Special. Help is always on hand if you are fortunate enough to be a Laysan Albatross in trouble on Kauai
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07-03-18 |
1772
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Wind, moon and light: modelling groundings of fledging Manx Shearwaters
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06-03-18 |
1229
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To every thing there is a season: segregation in giant petrels
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05-03-18 |
1172
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50 years of French research on population ecology of Wandering Albatrosses gets reviewed
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02-03-18 |
1392
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Differences in foraging strategy between the sexes in Wandering Albatrosses
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01-03-18 |
1398
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ACAP discusses seabird bycatch at a Common Oceans Tuna workshop in Peru this month
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28-02-18 |
1506
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Surveying and tracking Sooty Shearwaters in the South Atlantic
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27-02-18 |
1386
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Sixty-something Wisdom the Laysan Albatross hatches another chick on Midway Atoll
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26-02-18 |
1354
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Saving Indian Yellow-nosed Albatrosses from avian cholera with a vaccine
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23-02-18 |
1625
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Second year of translocating Black-footed Albatross chicks to higher ground gets underway in Hawaii
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22-02-18 |
2275
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Climate stress? A Northern Royal Albatross kills its own chick during a poor breeding season at Taiaroa Head
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21-02-18 |
1727
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Tristan Albatrosses on Gough Island get counted, one year before mouse eradication
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20-02-18 |
1869
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Presentations on ACAP-listed species at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 45th Annual Meeting in Mexico this week
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19-02-18 |
1198
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Buller's Albatrosses consume left-over Sooty Shearwater carcasses discarded by New Zealand muttonbirders
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16-02-18 |
1515
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Do drones bother sub-Antarctic albatrosses and giant petrels?
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15-02-18 |
1337
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Follow-up visit reveals artificial nests are improving breeding success of Shy Albatrosses
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14-02-18 |
1864
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Sex and age biases of three shearwater species killed by Mediterranean longline fisheries
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13-02-18 |
1368
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Bannerman’s Shearwater of Japan’s Ogasawara Islands is deemed a full species, but is Endangered
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12-02-18 |
1428
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Twitterati alert: the Fourth World Seabird Twitter Conference will take place in April this year
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09-02-18 |
1254
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From the Antipodes to the Shiants via the South Atlantic: field teams are checking three seabird islands for the presence of rodents after eradication efforts
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08-02-18 |
1615
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Employment opportunity: statistical modeller wanted to help reduce seabird bycatch in New Zealand
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07-02-18 |
1816
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Last year of hand rearing translocated Chatham Albatross chicks now underway
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06-02-18 |
4695
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Hello, I'm Albie, your albatross friend
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05-02-18 |
2131
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The Royalcam films albatross life for a third year at New Zealand’s Taiaroa Head
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02-02-18 |
2082
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Geographic effort in seabirds-at-sea studies correlates with the western world, not with where the seabirds are
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01-02-18 |
1501
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Manx Shearwaters get home by sun compass
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31-01-18 |
1672
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Managing mice on Marion Island
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30-01-18 |
1887
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An Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross gets freed from a deliberately tied packing strap
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29-01-18 |
1621
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The 14th International Seabird Group Conference, Liverpool, UK, 3-6 September 2018 opens for business
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26-01-18 |
1622
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Amsterdam and Shy Albatrosses up for status review: BirdLife International calls for involvement with its Forum for Globally Threatened Seabirds
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25-01-18 |
1446
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New MPAs for Greece help protect Scopoli’s and Yelkouan Shearwaters
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24-01-18 |
1571
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Human interference? A Southern Royal Albatross is photographed at sea with an object wrapped around its bill
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23-01-18 |
1973
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Wedge-tailed Shearwaters use tuna to facilitate their foraging
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22-01-18 |
1643
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Sooty Shearwaters on New Zealand’s Kapiti Island get a Weka-proof fence
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19-01-18 |
1587
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Tracking 14 albatross, petrel and seal species from sub-Antarctic Marion Island identifies foraging hotspots
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18-01-18 |
1548
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Exploring the North Pacific: 51 young Short-tailed Albatrosses are tracked at sea
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17-01-18 |
1899
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Shielded stadium lights on Kauai help protect fledging Newell’s Shearwaters and have allowed night-time football again
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16-01-18 |
1895
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Night setting better than bird-scaring lines in a US Pacific longline fishery: a new regulation to be considered
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15-01-18 |
1542
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ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwaters help choose Portuguese MPAs
|
12-01-18 |
1569
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Two Black-browed Albatrosses and a Southern Giant Petrel seen in the South Atlantic daubed with red paint
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11-01-18 |
2514
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Offsetting wind farm deaths: Newell’s Shearwaters have commenced breeding in a protected site on the Hawaiian island of Maui
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10-01-18 |
1573
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Detecting population declines from nest counts of Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses that skip breeding years could take decades
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09-01-18 |
1754
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Canada releases a management plan for the Black-footed Albatross
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08-01-18 |
1532
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Hutton’s Shearwaters are doing better than expected after the Kaikoura earthquake
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05-01-18 |
2253
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Research starts on the introduced mammals of France’s sub-Antarctic Amsterdam Island prior to developing an eradication plan
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04-01-18 |
2791
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75 threatened Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwaters fledge in the first three years of relocation into a predator-proof reserve on the island of Kauai
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03-01-18 |
1988
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Hands-on management: this season Laysan Albatross eggs from Kauai get foster parents on Oahu
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02-01-18 |
2404
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