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Eradication is not the end of it: signs of a mouse on St Agnes show the need for continued biosecurity

Ground bait station sites on St Agnes and connected Gugh Islands during the rodent eradication operation St Agnes is one five inhabited islands in the United Kingdom’s Isles of Scilly. Following the eradication of Norway Rats Rattus norvegicus by a...
Manx Shearwaters joined by European Storm Petrels on the Isles of Scilly two years after the eradication of rats

Hydrobates pelagicus have been discovered breeding “for the first time in living memory” on the now rat-free islands of St Agnes and Gugh in the United Kingdom’s Isles of Scilly. This news is reported in the latest issue of the ‘Rat on a Rat’ update of...
Manx Shearwaters get a boost on United Kingdom islands

Group Newsletter 127: 11. Pearson, J., Marshall, E. & Titterton, L. 2014. Shearwater chicks successfully fledged on St Agnes & Gugh – first time in living memory! The Shearwater 4: 1. John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 09 November 2014
Manx Shearwaters breed successfully on a United Kingdom island freed of its rats

delighted to announce that Manx shearwater chicks have been spotted peeking out from their burrows and ‘wing-flapping’ on St Agnes and Gugh. They are the first shearwater chicks to be recorded [outside their burrows] on either island in living memory....
Scilly news is good news for Manx Shearwaters: rats successfully eradicated from St Agnes and Gugh

European Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus that have been reported breeding on both islands. The bait station sites on St Agnes (left) and Gugh (right) that led to the eradication of the rats The latest issue (No. 3 of March 2013) of the Isles of...
Not a Scilly idea: getting rid of rats to help English Manx Shearwaters

assessment of the feasibility of rat removal across the Isles of Scilly Archipelago and feasibility of rat removal from St Agnes and Gugh. Blenheim: Wildlife Management International Ltd. 40 pp. Brooke, M. de L. 1990. The Manx Shearwater. London: T & AD...
Manx Shearwaters are doing well after rat removal on the United Kingdom’s island of Lundy

rattus) were eradicated from Lundy by the eradication project. Attempts are now being made to rid the UK’s Scilly Isles of St Agnes and Gugh of rats to protect their populations of Manx Shearwaters and European Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus (click...
De-ratting Manx Shearwater colonies: not a Scilly idea

to address a number of conservation issues in the archipelago, including removing rats from the inhabited islands of St Agnes and Gugh, which support breeding seabirds, such as the shearwater, as well as the European Storm Petrel Hydrobates pelagicus....

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Eradication is not the end of it: signs of a mouse on St Agnes show the need for continued biosecurity

Manx Shearwaters joined by European Storm Petrels on the Isles of Scilly two years after the eradication of rats

Manx Shearwaters get a boost on United Kingdom islands

Manx Shearwaters breed successfully on a United Kingdom island freed of its rats

Scilly news is good news for Manx Shearwaters: rats successfully eradicated from St Agnes and Gugh

Not a Scilly idea: getting rid of rats to help English Manx Shearwaters

Manx Shearwaters are doing well after rat removal on the United Kingdom’s island of Lundy

De-ratting Manx Shearwater colonies: not a Scilly idea

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