Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Soon it will be BOTY time again – and you can help crown the Endangered Antipodean Albatross!

New Zealanders will be scurrying to vote for their favourite birds as Forest & Bird’s iconic Bird of the Year competition (BOTY2025) returns next month. Operated in a light-hearted way, but with a serious underlying message, the competition aims to...
** VOTING NOW OPEN! ** Once again New Zealand’s Bird of the Year lists the Endangered Antipodean Albatross as a candidate for your vote

for World Albatross Day 2020, after a photograph by Kirk Zufelt New Zealand’s annual Bird of the Year competition for 2024 (“BOTY2024”) commences on Monday 02 September, with voting based on an instant runoff system closing on Sunday 15 September. The...
Could the Antipodean Albatross or Black Petrel take out this year’s Bird of the Year?

New Zealand's Bird of the Year award, the Black Petrel; photgraph by Virgina Nicol Two other procellariiforms to make the BOTY contestant list are the globally Vulnerable Tītī/Cook’s Petrel Pterodroma cookii and the globally Endangered Kaikōura...
UPDATED. No podium places for the Endangered Antipodean Albatross this year in competitions in New Zealand and Spain

Antipodean Albatross and access earlier posts in ACAP Latest News about Live Ocean’s work for Antipodean Albatrosses here. BOTY2021 Back in New Zealand, the official winner of the annual Bird of the Year competition (BOTY2021) was announced earlier this...
ACAP and the New Zealand Department of Conservation co-publish an infographic for the Endangered Antipodean Albatross

kills females (as illustrated in a recent news article). Voting in New Zealand’s Te Manu Rongonui o te Tau/Bird of the Year (BOTY) competition for 2021 is now open and continues until month end, with the Antipodean Albatross on the list (click here)....
“Vote Toroa” supports the Antipodean Albatross in this year’s Bird of the Year competition

Voting in New Zealand’s Te Manu Rongonui o te Tau/Bird of the Year (BOTY) competition for 2021 will be open from 18-31 October, and once again the globally Endangered and Nationally Critical Antipodean Albatross Diomedea antipodensis is on the list...
Podium position! The Antipodean Albatross comes second in New Zealand’s BOTY2020

or Toroa Diomedea antipodensis has made the second step of the podium in this year’s Bird of the Year competition (‘BOTY2020’). Initially leading during the two-week voting period (with a record 55 000 votes received overall), following a spirited...
Australians and New Zealanders get voting again for Bird of the Year: Short-tails, Antipodeans or Whenua Hous?

Each year Australians and New Zealanders get the chance to vote for their favourite bird in Bird of the Year (BOTY) competitions. The Aussies have come up with 50 birds on their list this year; but only two on the voting list of 50 are seabirds. These...

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THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Soon it will be BOTY time again – and you can help crown the Endangered Antipodean Albatross!

VOTING NOW OPEN! Once again New Zealand’s Bird of the Year lists the Endangered Antipodean Albatross as a candidate for your vote

Could the Antipodean Albatross or Black Petrel take out this year’s Bird of the Year?

UPDATED. No podium places for the Endangered Antipodean Albatross this year in competitions in New Zealand and Spain

ACAP and the New Zealand Department of Conservation co-publish an infographic for the Endangered Antipodean Albatross

“Vote Toroa” supports the Antipodean Albatross in this year’s Bird of the Year competition

Podium position! The Antipodean Albatross comes second in New Zealand’s BOTY2020

Australians and New Zealanders get voting again for Bird of the Year: Short-tails, Antipodeans or Whenua Hous?

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels