Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

A crowning achievement? Mainland colony of Northern Royal Albatrosses fledges 33 chicks in a “fantastic breeding season”

Northern Royal Albatross by ABUN artist Lenina Villela‎ for ACAP Thirty-three chicks of the 2023/24 breeding season have left the mainland colony of globally Endangered and Nationally Vulnerable Northern Royal Albatrosses Diomedea sanfordi at...
They do get about: two colour banded great albatrosses are spotted at sea far from home

Not your usual view, but this Northern Royal Albatross clearly shows in orange leg band, photograph by Michael Mason Although the use of technology to follow albatrosses and other pelagic seabirds at sea via the use of bird-mounted electronic loggers...
Northern Royal Albatross chicks at Pukekura/Taiaraoa Head continue to get fed plastic by their parents

Plastic items regurgitated by a Northern Royal Albatross chick at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head. Recognizable are four bottle caps, a red cigarette lighter, four brown squid beaks and two translucent fish eye lenses, among other plastic fragments, photograph...
A ten-day-old Northern Royal Albatross chick succumbs to ingested plastic

2A Northern Royal Albatross chick in ICU after eating plastic, photograph by the Wildlife Hospital A 10-day old Endangered Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea sanfordi chick has died while under care in the Wildlife Hospital in Dunedin after it swallowed...
Manaaki, this year’s Northern Royal Albatross Royal Cam chick, has fledged, leaving regurgitated plastic behind

Still some down to lose, the Royal Cam chick on 27 August, photograph by Sharyn Broni The 2023 Royal Cam chick, named Manaaki, has fledged from Pukekura/Taiaroa Head on New Zealand’s South Island at an average age of 240 days and of a “healthy weight”....
New bling! Twenty fledgling Northern Royal Albatrosses to get tracked for three years with Global Location Sensors

The GLS logger is visible below the hand holding the foot Global Location Sensors (GLS) have been attached to 10 female and 10 male chicks of the 33 soon-to-fledge Northern Royal Albatrosses Diomedea sanfordi in the mainland colony at Pukekura/Taiaroa...
Northern Royal Albatrosses receive alphanumeric colour bands for the first time at Pukekura/Tairaoa Head

The new colour bands that are being used for the first time instead of the old three-colour combinations On World Nature Conservation Day (28 July) all 33 chicks of the current breeding season in New Zealand’s mainland colony of globally Endangered and...
The latest Royal Cam albatross chick gets its name on World Albatross Day

Manaaki, the Royal Cam chick for 2022/23 - a bit damp after rain – was officially named on 19 June, World Albatross Day The small breeding colony of the globally Endangered and Nationally Vulnerable Northern Royal Albatrosses Diomedea sanfordi on the...
Plastic pollution is the theme for this year’s World Albatross Day being held today

A Laysan Albatross feeds brightly coloured pieces of plastic mistakenly ingested at sea to its chick by ABUN artist Lyn Lynch, after a photograph by Chris Jordan The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) has chosen the theme...
ABUN artist Tammy McGee draws a winner and raises awareness for World Albatross Day

‘Raising Awareness’ by Tammy McGee, after a photograph of a Laysan Albatross chick by Chris Jordan. Faber-Castell Polychromos coloured pencils, 12" x 15" Pastelmat Artists and Biologists Unite for Nature’s Tammy McGee has this month won Second Place at...

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The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels