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title: "Albatrosses and shearwaters will feature at the Seabird Group's 11th International Conference in Plymouth next month"
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# Albatrosses and shearwaters will feature at the Seabird Group's 11th International Conference in Plymouth next month

The [Seabird Group](http://www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/) will hold its [11th International Conference](http://www.seabirdgroup2011.org/) next month from 2-4 September at the University of Plymouth in Plymouth, United Kingdom.  The programme for the conference is now available [on-line](http://www.seabirdgroup2011.org/Programme.pdf).

 Several oral and poster papers will be presented on albatrosses and on "ACAP-candidate" shearwaters as listed by title and authors below:

 **Oral papers:**

 Thierry Boulinier:  Extraordinary long persistence of maternal antibodies in a long lived seabird: implications from albatross conservation to comparative immunology.

 Richard Phillips:  Dispersal patterns of fledglings and implications for the development of individual migration strategies in Wandering Albatrosses.  [*Diomedea exulans*]

 Russell Wynn:  Intensive monitoring provides new insights into key flyways and foraging areas of the Balearic Shearwater in UK and French waters.  [*Puffinus mauretanicus*]

 **Posters:**

 Cowen, H.C., Oppel, S.O., Hervias, S.H., Oliveira, N.O., Geraldes, P.G., van Heezik, Y.H. & Brooke, M.B.:  How to measure cat activity in shearwater colonies to explain variation in Cory's Shearwater nest survival?  [*Calonectris diomedea*]

 Guilford, T.C., Wynn, R., McMinn, M., Rodriguez, .A, Jones, A.R., Maurice, L.D. & Suberg, L.:  Migratory movements of the Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwater revealed by geolocator tracking. [*Puffinus mauretanicus*]

 Oppel. S., Raine, A.F., Borg, J.J., Raine, H., Bonnaud, .E, Bourgeois, K. & Breton, A.R.:  Low adult survival probabilities threaten the Yelkouan Shearwater *Puffinus yelkouan.*

 Reyes, J.M., Phillips, R.A. & Gonzalez-Solís. J.:  Activity patterns of pelagic seabirds during the nonbreeding period.

 The plenary lecture will be given by [Bob Furness](http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PeQndP) of the University of Glasgow in Scotland entitled "Seabird responses to environmental change: insights from 30 years of PhD supervision."

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Corys/corys_shearwater_john_graham.jpg "Cory's Shearwater.  Photograph by John Graham")

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 16 August 2011*