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title: "Recent research on ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels in New Zealand well featured at the IAPC5"
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# Recent research on ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels in New Zealand well featured at the IAPC5

Not surprisingly, New Zealand marine ornithologists were well represented at the recent [Fifth International Albatross and Petrel Conference](http://www.cvent.com/events/the-fifth-international-albatross-and-petrel-conference/event-summary-7f2350508d8e48278a360a387b75af71.aspx) held in Wellington, the nation's capital city, last month.

 To bring those who did not attend the conference up-to-date here follows by authors and titles a list of the oral (O) and poster (P) presentations on ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels within New Zealand and its waters.  To learn more read the abstracts in the [conference booklet](https://custom.cvent.com/7D44ECD432654B6DA64826C592F01E88/files/d0778cc2f5ad4f07859cb21fded862bf.pdf)available on-line.

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/N/Northern_Royal/Northern_Royal_Albatross_500th_chick_by_Lyndon_Perriman.jpg)  
A Northern Royal Albatross guards its downy chick at Taiaroa Head  
 Photograph by Lyndon Perriman

 Edward Abraham & Finlay Thompson:  Albatross and petrel bycatch in New Zealand commercial fisheries.  O23.  
Elizabeth Bell, Joanna Sim, Paul Scofield & Chris Francis:  Rising, falling or stable?  Population modelling of Black Petrel *Procellaria parkinsoni*on Great Barrier Island (Aotea), New Zealand.  O50.  
Rachel Buxton, David Towns, Graeme Taylor, Henrik Moller & Chris Jones:  On the road to recovery: procellariiform population response after predator removal.  O40.  
Lorna Deppe, Paul Scofield & James Briskie:  Around the year with albatross: at-sea distribution, habitat use and activity patterns of three New Zealand albatross species.  O16.  
Graeme Elliott & Kath Walker:  Recent declines in Gibson's and Antipodean wandering albatrosses.  O46.  
Grant Humphries:  Examining the potential to predict El Niño Southern Oscillation using seabirds.  O42.  
David Middleton, Richard Wells, John Cleal, Edward Abraham & Johanna Pierre:  Managing seabird incidental mortality in New Zealand's deepwater trawl fleet: creating individual vessel solutions in a fleet-wide approach, informed by experimental evidence.  O26.  
Janice Molloy, Rebecca Bird, Alan Riwaka & Richard Wells: Working with fishers to make a difference for seabirds: Southern Seabird Solutions Trust.  P20.  
Johanna Pierre, Edward Abraham, Yvan Richard, John Cleal & David Middleton:  Reducing seabird bycatch through improving management of fisheries waste.  O24.  
Yvan Richard, Edward Abraham & Dominique Filippi: Assessment of the risk of commercial fishing to seabirds in the New Zealand EEZ.  O26.  
Leigh Torres, David Thompson, Richard Phillips, Paul Sagar, Phil Sutton & Erica Sommer:  Grey Petrel non-breeding habitat use patterns: what's in the middle of no place?  O6.  
Junichi Sugishita, Philip Seddon, Leigh Torres & Lyndon Perriman: Royal parenting: foraging strategies and risks in Northern Royal Albatross.  P22.  
Lisa Sztukowski, David Thompson, Henri Weimerskirch, Leigh Torres, Paul Sagar & Stephen Votier:  Testing for individual foraging specialisation in Campbell Albatross: implications for ecology and conservation.  O2.  
Kath Walker & Graeme Elliott:  The case for species status for Gibson's and Antipodean wandering albatrosses.  P10.  
Susan Waugh, John Arnould & Karyne Rogers:  Westland Petrel foraging during breeding season.  O18.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 8 September 2012*