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title: "Australian research on albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters presented at the Fifth International Albatross and Petrel Conference"
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# Australian research on albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters presented at the Fifth International Albatross and Petrel Conference

A number of Australian marine ornithologists crossed the Tasman Sea to attend the [Fifth International Albatross and Petrel Conference](http://www.cvent.com/events/the-fifth-international-albatross-and-petrel-conference/event-summary-7f2350508d8e48278a360a387b75af71.aspx) in Wellington, New Zealand last month.

 Authors and titles of six Aussie oral and poster presentations at IAPC5 are listed below.

 Rachael Alderman & Rosemary Gales:  Macquarie Island's giant petrels and the impacts of the pest eradication program.  O38.

 Rachael Alderman & Rosemary Gales:   The Shy Albatross: status, survival and threats.  P1.

 Nicholas Carlile, Matt Rayner, Yuna Kim, David Priddel, Dean Portelli & Vincent Bretagnolle:  Consistency between historic at-sea observations and modern geolocation estimates: a case study of Gould's Petrel (*Pterodroma leucoptera leucoptera, P. l. caledonica*).  O9.

 Fiona McDuie, Scarla Weeks & Brad Congdon:  How do oceanography and climate impact prey availability of tropical seabirds: electronic tracking of Wedge-tailed Shearwaters to identify critical foraging resources of the Great Barrier Reef.  O12.

 Julie McInnes, Cassy Faux, Andrea Polanowski, Louise Emmerson, Colin Southwell, Rosemary Gales & Simon Jarman:  Investigating albatross diet using next generation sequencing.  P33.

 Geoff Tuck:  Why you should not rely on bycatch rates alone to manage seabird interactions in your fishery.  P29.

 [Click here](https://custom.cvent.com/7D44ECD432654B6DA64826C592F01E88/files/d0778cc2f5ad4f07859cb21fded862bf.pdf)to read the abstracts of the above (and other) papers in the conference booklet.

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Islands/ALBATROSS_Island_PANORAMA_by_R_Alderman.jpg)  
Shy Abatrosses on Albatross Island in Australia's Bass Strait  
Photograph by Rachael Alderman

 John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 10 September 2012