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and Norway or Brown Rats Rattus norvegicus on Rathlin Island off the north coast on Northern Island, and Norway Rats on St Agnes and Gugh in the Isles of Scilly, Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland “Manx Shearwaters have been recorded breeding on Rathlin...
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Ground bait station sites on St Agnes and connected Gugh Islands during the rodent eradication operation St Agnes is one five inhabited islands in the United Kingdom’s Isles of Scilly. Following the eradication of Norway Rats Rattus norvegicus by a...
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Hydrobates pelagicus have been discovered breeding “for the first time in living memory” on the now rat-free islands of St Agnes and Gugh in the United Kingdom’s Isles of Scilly. This news is reported in the latest issue of the ‘Rat on a Rat’ update of...
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Group Newsletter 127: 11. Pearson, J., Marshall, E. & Titterton, L. 2014. Shearwater chicks successfully fledged on St Agnes & Gugh – first time in living memory! The Shearwater 4: 1. John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 09 November 2014
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delighted to announce that Manx shearwater chicks have been spotted peeking out from their burrows and ‘wing-flapping’ on St Agnes and Gugh. They are the first shearwater chicks to be recorded [outside their burrows] on either island in living memory....
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European Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus that have been reported breeding on both islands. The bait station sites on St Agnes (left) and Gugh (right) that led to the eradication of the rats The latest issue (No. 3 of March 2013) of the Isles of...
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assessment of the feasibility of rat removal across the Isles of Scilly Archipelago and feasibility of rat removal from St Agnes and Gugh. Blenheim: Wildlife Management International Ltd. 40 pp. Brooke, M. de L. 1990. The Manx Shearwater. London: T & AD...
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rattus) were eradicated from Lundy by the eradication project. Attempts are now being made to rid the UK’s Scilly Isles of St Agnes and Gugh of rats to protect their populations of Manx Shearwaters and European Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus (click...
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to address a number of conservation issues in the archipelago, including removing rats from the inhabited islands of St Agnes and Gugh, which support breeding seabirds, such as the shearwater, as well as the European Storm Petrel Hydrobates pelagicus....
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