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ACAP Latest News describing how she saved a Laysan Albatross or mōlī Phoebastria imuutabilis chick by removing an ingested balloon. Now she reports on another Laysan Albatross chick that had manged to get its beak entangled with an oyster band or ring....
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- Author: John Cooper
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To my great relief, I felt some give, and on the second tug, out slithered from the chick’s bill a bright orange rubber balloon, about 4 inches [10 cm] long. The ugly thing now lay on the sand next to the chick, with its long trailing ribbon, at the end...
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- Author: John Cooper
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“A piece of plastic wrapper and part of an orange balloon” removed from the juvenile Black-browed Albatross, photograph from the Wellington Zoo Te Nukuao In April this year a juvenile Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris was found in poor...
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- Author: John Cooper
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Endangered and Nationally Vulnerable bird was entangled around its bill and a wing by nylon line attached to a fishing balloon so it was unable to fly. Balloons are used to keep live bait close to the sea surface and to float the bait out from the shore...
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- Author: John Cooper
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southern hemisphere species. A beached juvenile Black-browed/Campbell Albatross entangled by a plastic string attached to a balloon, Dolphin Point, New South Wales, Australia (click here); photograph from Karen Joynes With grateful thanks to the many...
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- Author: John Cooper
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WAD2023: "Plastic Pollution"https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/wad2023-plastic-pollution
southern hemisphere species. A beached juvenile Black-browed/Campbell Albatross entangled by a plastic string attached to a balloon, Dolphin Point, New South Wales, Australia (click here); photograph from Karen Joynes As well as the world’s 22 species...
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- Author: W Misiak
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southern hemisphere species. A beached juvenile Black-browed/Campbell Albatross entangled by a plastic string attached to a balloon, Dolphin Point, New South Wales, Australia (click here); photograph from Karen Joynes As well as the world’s 22 species...
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- Author: John Cooper
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A Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes approaches a floating balloon, photograph by Rich Stallcup ACAP Latest News has reported on numerous times of albatrosses and petrels ingesting or becoming entangled by helium-filled balloons that had been...
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- Author: John Cooper
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The entangled juvenile mollymawk albatross. A deflated blue and a partially inflated tan-coloured balloon are visible, along with blue and white plastic ribbons No Balloon Release Australia has reported an albatross found washed up dead at Dolphin...
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- Author: John Cooper
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Wildbase Hospital in Palmerston North. Its stomach was found to contain a flattened 500-ml plastic water bottle as well as balloon fragments. (click here). According to the New Zealand Department of Conservation’s Facebook page the autopsy suggests...
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- Author: John Cooper
- Category: ACAP Latest News
- Language: en-GB
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