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title: "Brazil tracks the Spectacled Petrel to its home"
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# Brazil tracks the Spectacled Petrel to its home

 

Visit [http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/090506.htm](http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/090506.htm)[http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/090506.html](http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/090506.html) for news of the successful satellite-tracking of a Vulnerable Spectacled Petrel *Procellaria conspicillata* from Brazilian waters to its single breeding site on Inaccessible Island in the Tristan da Cunha Group. 

The research has been conducted by Leandro Bugoni ([Projeto Albatroz](http://www.projetoalbatroz.org.br/default.aspx) and University of Glasgow).  Leandro presented information on the marine habitat of the Spectacled Petrel and its overlap with Brazilian longline fisheries at the Fourth International Albatross & Petrel Conference in Cape Town in August 2008 ([http://iapc4.adu.org.za/](http://iapc4.adu.org.za/)). His presentation has now been published in *Marine Ecology Progress Series*([click here](http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v374/p273-285/) for the abstract.).

  [Click here for the ACAP Species Assessment for the Spectacled Petrel](https://acap.aq/images/Species_Assessments/acap_species_assessment_spectacled_petrel_en.pdf)

  See also [http://www.getbirding.com/?p=155](http://www.getbirding.com/?p=155).

 

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 *News posted by John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 14 May 2009*