Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

It’s BOTY time again in New Zealand, and you will be able to vote for the Endangered Northern Royal Albatross!

This year it’s the Northern Royal Albatross asking for your vote It’s Bird of the Year (BOTY, Te Manu Rongonui o te Tau in Te Reo Māori) time again in New Zealand. For the 22nd year since inauguration in 2005, New Zealanders, and the rest of the world,...
Flesh-footed Shearwaters contain more plastic than just about any seabird studied

Removing plastic fragments from a Flesh-footed Shearwater chick on Lord Howe Island, photograph by Ian Hutton Alexander Bond (Bird Group, The Natural History Museum, Tring, United Kingdom) and Jennifer Lavers have published in the journal Environmental...
No evidence of sex ratio bias in plastic loads of Flesh-footed Shearwater chicks

Removing plastic fragments from a Flesh-footed Shearwater stomach, photograph by Ian Hutton Alex Bond (Bird Group, Natural History Museum, Tring, United Kingdom) and colleagues have published open access in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin on a...
THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. The Convention on Migratory Species considers the Flesh-footed Shearwater for inclusion on its Appendix II. ACAP listing to follow?

Flesh-footed Shearwater at sea, photograph by Kirk Zufelt Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) have submitted proposals to add 27 species of procellariiform seabirds to CMS appendices. The proposed...
A volunteer group in Wales rescues Manx Shearwaters downed by gales

listened to a poem specially written for the event by Nicola Davies, the Children's Laureate Wales. Inspired by the Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trust in New Zealand, the farewell included releasing feathers. Watch a 1.30 minute video clip of the...
Hutton’s Shearwaters and light pollution from dairy farms - a newly reported threat

A well-lit Kaikoura dairy farm as cows wait to be milked before dawn What seems to be a previously unidentified threat has been reported for the globally Endangered Hutton’s Shearwater Puffinus huttoni, a species endemic to the Kaikoura region of New...
THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE UPDATED. BOTY 2025 is now open for voting. Help crown the Endangered Antipodean Albatross!

An ACAP-listed Antipodean Albatross, artwork by Lenina Villela of Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature (ABUN) for World Albatross Day, 19 June 2020 UPDATE: VOTING IS NOW OPEN UNTIL 17h00 NZST, SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER: VOTE NOW FOR THE ANTIPODEAN ALBATROSS...
Relief for Kaikōura’s Hutton Shearwaters as LED streetlights will start to be fitted

sanctuary accreditation, announced by Dark Sky International in September last year. Read more here. Ready to fledge. A Hutton's_Shearwater chick, all photographs from the Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust Read more here. See a recent post to ACAP...
Hutton’s Shearwaters – how well are they doing in their translocation colony?

A Hutton’s Shearwater incubates its egg in an artificial burrow in the Te Rae o Atiu colony, photograph from the Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trust The Endangered Hutton’s Shearwater Puffinus huttoni breeds naturally only in two colonies high up in...
An Australian seabird island is well on the road to recovery following the eradication of its alien rodents

A view of Lord Howe Island, photograph by Ian Hutton Lord Howe Island is a World Heritage natural property situated some 600 km off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, in the Tasman Sea. In 2019 the Lord Howe Island Rodent Eradication Project saw...

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It’s BOTY time again in New Zealand, and you will be able to vote for the Endangered Northern Royal Albatross!

Flesh-footed Shearwaters contain more plastic than just about any seabird studied

No evidence of sex ratio bias in plastic loads of Flesh-footed Shearwater chicks

THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. The Convention on Migratory Species considers the Flesh-footed Shearwater for inclusion on its Appendix II. ACAP listing to follow?

A volunteer group in Wales rescues Manx Shearwaters downed by gales

Hutton’s Shearwaters and light pollution from dairy farms - a newly reported threat

THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE UPDATED. BOTY 2025 is now open for voting. Help crown the Endangered Antipodean Albatross!

Relief for Kaikōura’s Hutton Shearwaters as LED streetlights will start to be fitted

Hutton’s Shearwaters – how well are they doing in their translocation colony?

An Australian seabird island is well on the road to recovery following the eradication of its alien rodents

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