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The Pacific Missile Range Facility Dark Skies programme plays a vital role in protecting these birds by reducing light pollution and ensuring safer passage for fledglings. “Fledgling seabirds leave their mountain burrows for the first time each year to...
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- Author: John Cooper
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gender imbalance (attributed to greater recruitment of female immigrants) and the vulnerability of Matiu fledglings to light pollution from nearby metropolitan areas. Second-generation pakahā returned to land from 2015 (Mana) and 2020 (Matiu), with 91...
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- Author: John Cooper
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rates were similar at both locations; however, only Matiu fledglings were found grounded on the mainland, likely due to light pollution around Wellington Harbour. Matiu attracted more immigrants than Mana (30 compared to 21), with many already banded,...
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that laid an egg were successful in raising a chick to fledging.” ACAP Latest News has published on the effects of light pollution on a number of shearwater and petrel species, notably for fledglings. Click here for a 2025 report on downed Manx...
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- Author: John Cooper
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includes such activities as eradication or control of introduced plants and animals at breeding sites, reducing light pollution, provision of predator-proof fences, establishment of new breeding colonies by attraction techniques and translocations of...
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face. At varying levels of significance for the different ACAP-listed species, threats, real and potential, include light pollution at sea and on land, offshore structures (oil rigs and wind farms) and human disturbance and exploitation. These threats...
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- Author: John Cooper
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than 5,000 breeding pairs remaining, they face growing pressures at sea, from fisheries bycatch and climate change to light pollution and changing ocean conditions. The ultimate goal is to chart a course for recovery and protection of this on the brink...
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- Author: John Cooper
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their life-cycles, including land-based threats during their breeding season such as invasive species, diseases, or light pollution. Here we assess the timing, scope, and severity of land-based threats to populations of highly mobile petrels,...
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- Author: John Cooper
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Petrel is considered to be one of New Zealand’s most at-risk seabirds, facing threats from fishing bycatch, predation, light pollution and habitat loss. The project wished to raise funds for 20 GPS trackers to follow fledgling Black Petrels on their...
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- Author: John Cooper
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eight species, all burrowing procellariiforms, that breed on Hawaiian Islands and are considered highly vulnerable to light pollution. They are: Newell’s Shearwater Puffinus newelli (Critically Endangered) Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis...
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- Author: John Cooper
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