Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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

Victims of bright lights and a vehicle. A Hutton’s Shearwater is killed on a Kaikōura street Shearwaters, and especially their fledglings, are particularly at risk of being downed by light pollution, notably from bright streetlighting, when they can be...
THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Seven months researching albatrosses and restoring habitats on Hōlanikū (Kure Atoll) in the North Pacific

Two Black-footed Albatrosses (ka‘upu) court at sunset on Hōlanikū Note. It has been some time since a guest has written and illustrated an ACAP Monthly Missive. Here is one by Isabelle Beaudoin, an aspiring seabird biologist who is currently on Kure...
Proposed mine could threaten New Zealand’s Endangered Westland Petrels

Light pollution from a mine proposed near the only breeding site for New Zealand's Westland Petrel could impact the species. A Westland Petrel fledgling; photograph by Bruce Stuart-Menteath There is concern New Zealand’s Endangered Westland Petrels...
Study finds light pollution from ships reduces colony attendance in Yelkouan Shearwaters

A Yelkouan Shearwater; photo by Milko Marchetti (canva.com) A study on colony attendance in Vulnerable Yelkouan Shearwaters Puffinus yelkouan exposed to light pollution from ships by Martin Austad (Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology Group, Department...
Life after light. Grounded Manx Shearwaters can breed successfully after release

Manx Shearwater at sea, photograph by Joe Pinder Martyna Syposz and Oliver Padget (Department of Biology, Oxford University, UK) have published early view in the journal Seabird on the fate of banded Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus grounded by...
Blinded by the lights. Seabirds including ACAP-listed Black Petrels prone to grounding when breeding colonies located near sources of artificial light at night

The ACAP-listed Black Petrel - a species included in the study linking seabird groundings to light pollution; photograph by Kirk Zufelt Ariel-Micaiah Heswall (School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand) and colleagues...
THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Should more shearwaters be listed by the Agreement?

A Flesh-footed Shearwater at sea; photograph by Kirk Zufelt NOTE: ACAP Monthly Missives are more personal than those news articles that are regularly posted in ACAP Latest News. The new series offers the opportunity to go behind and beyond factual...
Seabirds’ feather integrity compromised by just a small amount of oil

An image from the paper: Figure 4. Amalgamation annotation of Manx shearwater feathers. Left: the distribution of barbules along the barb at increasing levels of oil treatment. Oil treatments are (a) control, (b) trace colour sheen – 0.1 µm, (c) dark...
Shining a light on the value of the dark. World Migratory Bird Day puts light pollution in the spotlight

A still from an Australian Government's Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water animation raising awareness of the imapcts of light pollution by Redboat Animation and Video (animation below) World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD)...
World Migratory Bird Day set to "dim the lights" to mark October bird migrations

World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) is set to mark the second of its twice-yearly celebratory days on 8 October under this year’s theme, “Light Pollution”. Adopting the catch cry, “Dim the Lights for Birds at Night”, WMBD is raising awareness of the impact...

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

THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Seven months researching albatrosses and restoring habitats on Hōlanikū (Kure Atoll) in the North Pacific

Proposed mine could threaten New Zealand’s Endangered Westland Petrels

Study finds light pollution from ships reduces colony attendance in Yelkouan Shearwaters

Life after light. Grounded Manx Shearwaters can breed successfully after release

Blinded by the lights. Seabirds including ACAP-listed Black Petrels prone to grounding when breeding colonies located near sources of artificial light at night

THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. Should more shearwaters be listed by the Agreement?

Seabirds’ feather integrity compromised by just a small amount of oil

Shining a light on the value of the dark. World Migratory Bird Day puts light pollution in the spotlight

World Migratory Bird Day set to "dim the lights" to mark October bird migrations

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