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A Black-browed Albatross survives ingesting an orange balloon – and gets to fly again
“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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UPDATED A Grey-headed Albatross entangled by a fishing balloon comes ashore in Northland, New Zealand and dies under care
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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The theme for World Albatross Day for 2023 is plastic pollution and Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature will help once more!
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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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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“Plastic Pollution”. ACAP chooses its theme for World Albatross Day 2023
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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Hawaii bans the release of albatross-killing balloons
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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“A tragic Christmas Day find”. A juvenile albatross found entangled by balloon ribbons in New South Wales
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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A Southern Royal Albatross dies in captivity after swallowing a half-litre plastic bottle
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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A Northern Giant Petrel that dies during treatment in Brazil is found to contain plastic
other posts to ACAP Latest News that describe more cases of giant petrels ingesting plastic objects, as well as latex balloons. With thanks to Projeto Albatroz, photographs from CRAM-FURG. John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 31 October 2019
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“A Black-footed Albatross was found entangled in discarded balloons and strings on Marina State Beach in June 2013”
Fulmars Fulmarus glacialis were also reported, as was a Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes entangled with a balloon. The paper’s abstract follows: “Marine fauna in the California Current System is susceptible to entanglement in anthropogenic...
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