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title: "The ACAP Species Summary Series gets completed with nine petrels and shearwaters"
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# The ACAP Species Summary Series gets completed with nine petrels and shearwaters

![Southern Giant Petrel summary web thumb](https://acap.aq/images/WAD2022/Southern_Giant_Petrel_summary_web_thumb.jpg)   
The illustrated [Species Summaries](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/acap-species-educational-series/species-summaries) have been produced to help inform the public, including school learners, of the biology and conservation needs of the 31 ACAP-listed albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters.  They serve to complement the more detailed and referenced [ACAP Species Assessments](https://acap.aq/resources/acap-species), and the still incomplete [Photo Essay](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/species-summaries/photographers) and [Infographic](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/species-summaries/species-infographics) series.

 The 22 albatross summaries were originally produced to inform members of Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature ([ABUN](https://abun4nature.org/)) who produced [artworks](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/images-and-artwork/artists-biologists-unite-for-nature-and-acap-collaborate-over-world-albatross-day-2020)to support [World Albatross Day 2020](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/wad2020-eradicating-island-pests).  They have been produced in in the three ACAP official languages of [English](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/acap-species-educational-series/species-summaries), [French](https://acap.aq/fr/world-albatross-day-fr/species-summaries-f)and [Spanish](https://acap.aq/es/world-albatross-day/species-summaries-s).

 Similarly, summaries in English for the nine ACAP-listed petrels and shearwaters were used to accompany [ABUN paintings](https://acap.aq/latest-news/3909-abun-project-35-painting-petrels-in-peril-gets-going-today) in 2021 for a project entitled [“Painting Petrels in Peril”](https://www.facebook.com/events/190876859389883).  These nine accounts are now available from [here](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/acap-species-educational-series/species-summaries) in English, completing the series.  Preparation of French and Spanish versions are currently underway and will be added soon.

 The English versions also may be found via original posts in *ACAP Latest News*by clicking on the links below.

 [Balearic Shearwater](https://acap.aq/latest-news/4312-an-acap-species-summary-for-the-balearic-shearwater) *Puffinus mauretanicus*[Black Petrel](https://acap.aq/latest-news/4304-an-acap-species-summary-for-the-black-petrel) *Procellaria parkinsoni*[Grey Petrel](https://acap.aq/latest-news/4299-an-acap-species-summary-for-the-grey-petrel) *Procellaria cinerea*[Northern Giant Petrel](https://acap.aq/latest-news/4294-an-acap-species-summary-for-the-northern-giant-petrel) *Macronectes hall*[Pink-footed Shearwater](https://acap.aq/latest-news/4314-an-acap-species-summary-for-the-pink-footed-shearwater) *Ardenna creatopus*[Southern Giant Petrel](https://acap.aq/latest-news/4289-an-acap-species-summary-for-the-southern-giant-petrel) *Macronectes giganteus*[Spectacled Petrel](https://acap.aq/latest-news/4301-an-acap-species-summary-for-the-spectacled-petrel) *Procellaria conspicillata*[Westland Petrel](https://acap.aq/latest-news/4308-an-acap-species-summary-for-the-westland-petrel) *Procellaria westlandica*[White-chinned Petrel](https://acap.aq/latest-news/4296-a-species-summary-for-the-white-chinned-petrel) *Procellaria aequinoctialis*

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer & Bree Forrer, ACAP Communications Advisor, 25 May 2022*