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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves; SPEA) is a nonprofit environmental NGO founded in 1993 with about 4000 members. SPEA’s mission is focused on the study and conservation of wild birds and their...