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Albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters get featured at the 16th International Seabird Group Conference in Portugal
The 16th International Seabird Group Conference was held at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal over 2-6 September 2024. Several talks and posters on albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters were presented at the conference. ACAP-listed species...
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ACAP releases its World Albatross Day posters for 2023 in Portuguese
A colour-banded Black-browed Albatross stands over its chick on Bird Island in the South Atlantic. Photograph by Erin Taylor, poster design by Bree Forrer The Albatross and Petrel Agreement has three official languages: English, French and Spanish....
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THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Should more shearwaters be listed by the Agreement?
A Flesh-footed Shearwater at sea; photograph by Kirk Zufelt NOTE: ACAP Monthly Missives are more personal than those news articles that are regularly posted in ACAP Latest News. The new series offers the opportunity to go behind and beyond factual...
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An ACAP Species Summary for the Balearic Shearwater
Balearic Shearwater, mixed media by Catarina Vitorino; after a photograph by Pep Arcos Note: The illustrated Species Summaries have been written to help inform the general public, including school learners, of the biology and conservation needs of the...
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Featuring ACAP-listed species and their photographers: the Balearic Shearwater by ‘Pep’ Arcos
A Balearic Shearwater at sea NOTE: This post continues an occasional series that features photographs of the 31 ACAP-listed species, along with information from and about their photographers. Here, José Manuel ‘Pep’ Arcos (SEO BirdLife) writes about...
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Balearic Shearwaters stranded along Portugal’s central coast due to bycatch and entanglement
Balearic Shearwater at sea, photograph by Pep Arcos Rute Costa (Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal) and colleagues have published in the European Journal of Wildlife Research on coastal strandings and rehabilitation of seabirds...
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Counts of ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwaters on passage along the coast of Portugal
Location of observation points in 2019 The BirdLife partner, SPEA, has reported on the passage of nine seabird species, including the ACAP-listed and Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus, observed from five mainland sites...
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ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwaters get entangled in Portuguese waters
Balearic Shearwater at sea, photograph by Pep Arcos R. Costa (Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal) and colleagues have published in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin on entangled seabirds received by a rehabilitation centre...
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Over 15 000 Balearic Shearwaters counted flying south along Portugal’s coast
Balearic Shearwater at sea, photograph by Beneharo Rodriguez Johan Elmberg (Department of Environmental Science and Bioscience, Kristianstad University, Sweden) and colleagues have published in the open access journal Marine Ornithology on counts of...
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Another BirdLife partner, this time Spain, lends its support to World Albatross Day
The BirdLife national partner in Spain is known as SEO/BirdLife. Following an approach by ACAP Latest News the environmental NGO has offered its support to this year’s inaugural World Albatross Day (‘WAD2020’) on 19 June, joining seven other BirdLife...
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