«The fence is doing its job,» said Eric VanderWerf, a biologist who, with his wife, Lindsay C. Young, is studying
populations of albatrosses and shearwaters on a grant from the Packard Foundation.
Not exact matches
It is home to grey - headed
albatrosses, northern giant petrels, white chinned petrels, Antarctic prions, half
of the entire
population of macaroni penguins and most
of the planet's
population of the South Georgia blue - eyed shag.
Understanding
population dynamics is crucial for the conservation
of long - lived species like
albatrosses, but collecting data on
albatrosses before they reach adulthood and begin to breed is challenging.
A new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications provides the first direct estimates
of the
population size and annual survival
of young birds in Oahu's Laysan
Albatross population, giving important new insights into the demographics
of these «prebreeders.»
This poster by Peter Hodgson highlights the crux
of BirdLife International's
Albatross campaign —
populations are nearing extinction because
of deaths caused when the birds accidentally eat fishing hooks left in bait or discarded after fishing trips.
Even if the global community surmounted these barriers
of gross inequity, and then shrugged off the
albatross of rising
populations, stabilising global emissions would not prevent disruption
of the climate.
Doing everything possible to ensure high numbers
of nesting Laysan
albatross is key to bringing their
population back.
This is an incredible loss, especially since the Laysan
albatross is a threatened species and about 70 %
of the world's
population nests on Midway Atoll.
In addition to the terns, there are frigatebirds, noddies, tropicbirds, and Bonin Petrels, not to mention 600,000 breeding pairs
of Laysan
Albatross and 60,000 pairs
of Black - footed
Albatross — virtually the entire world
populations.
Those successes include the monumental task
of eradicating invasive species, establishing a «backup»
population of Laysan Teal, a critically endangered species
of duck, bringing the threatened Short - Tailed
Albatross back to the island through years
of playing sound recordings and setting up decoys and conducting scientific research from monitoring carbon dioxide levels in a a world - wide study to analyzing marine debris washed up on the beaches to understand marine pollution.
About 70 percent
of the world's
population of Laysan
albatrosses nests on Midway Atoll.
Their daily tasks include monitoring the health
of the
albatross populations, keeping the Laysan Teal habitat safe from botulism, battling the invasive weeds and planting native plants, cleaning beaches and much, much more.
The short - tailed
albatross whose adult
population number only about 3,000 were till recently found only on the Japanese islands
of Kure Atoll and on Midway Atoll.