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1. BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL PROCELLARIFORME TRACKING DATABASE – 2008 UPDATE 

   Abstract:  Three GLS datasets were added to the BirdLife Global Procellariform Tracking Database ...  in 2008.  Author(s):  B. Sullivan (BirdLife International) Title:  BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL ... Three GLS datasets were added to the BirdLife Global  ... B. Sullivan (BirdLife International) ...

   Meeting Document : WG-IMAF-09/13 : Author(s): B. Sullivan (BirdLife International)

2. Seabird mortality in the Patagonian toothfish longline fishery around the Prince Edward Islands, 1996–2000

   (particularly grey-headed albatrosses Thalassarche chrysocome) were also killed. Birds were caught almost ... exclusively during their breeding seasons and most birds killed were breeding adult males from the Prince ... revenue by allowing these birds to access baited hooks. Rates of seabird bycatch in the sanctioned fishery ... decreased from 0.19 birds/1000 hooks to 0.034 birds/1000 hooks during the time of this study ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/8 : Author(s): D.C. Nel, P.G. Ryan and B.P. Watkins (South Africa)

3. Seabird by-catch in the Patagonian toothfish longline fishery at the Prince Edward Islands: 2001–2002

   birds: two White-chinned Petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis and one Grey Petrel P. cinerea. Average ... seabird bycatch rate by sanctioned vessels was 0.001 birds per 1 000 hooks which is a significant drop ... from the previous season when 0.009 birds were killed per 1000 hooks. Author(s):  B.P. Watkins (South ... /2001 (Ryan & Watkins 2001). The number of seabirds reported killed by the observers was three birds ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/17 : Author(s): B.P. Watkins (South Africa)

4. Developing a penguin tracking database to help determine their most important foraging areas

   Abstract:  In late 2012 SCAR, BirdLife and BAS developed a successful proposal (to the UK Darwin ... public domain. A penguin database (built along analogous lines and interoperable with the BirdLife Global ... . Author(s):  M. Hindell (SCAR), B. Lascelles (BirdLife) and P. Trathan (United Kingdom) Title:  Developing ... In late 2012 SCAR, BirdLife and BAS developed a successful proposal (to the UK Darwin Plus Fund ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/18 : Author(s): M. Hindell (SCAR), B. Lascelles (BirdLife) and P. Trathan (United Kingdom)

5. A generalized discriminant for sexing fulmarine petrels from external measurements

   birds to predict the sex of unknown individuals in field studies. Geographic variation in size and shape ... , Daption capense; and Snow Petrel, Pagodroma nivea) assigned 81 to 98% of birds in the samples ... discriminant scores, without reference to sexed birds, by using a maximum-likelihood method. Depending ... populations of fulmarine petrels without requiring samples of birds of known sex. Author(s):  J.A. van ...

   Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-94/24 : Author(s): J.A. van Franeker and C.J.F. ter Braak (The Netherlands)

6. Exploitation of mesoscale oceanographic features by grey-headed albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma in the southern Indian Ocean

   , in the southern Indian Ocean. During incubation, most birds foraged to the north of the island, at the edges ... . In contrast, during chick-rearing all tracked birds foraged to the southwest of the island, at the edges ... tracked birds showed birds feeding at edges of positive anomalies returning with fresh specimens ... Ocean. During incubation, most birds foraged to the north of the island, at the edges of anomalies ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/12 : Author(s): D.C. Nel, J.R.E. Lutjeharms, E.A. Pakhomov, I.J. Ansorge, P.G. Ryan and N.T.W. Klages (South Africa)

7. Diving pattern and performance in nonbreeding gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) during winter

   , and compared foraging behavior with that of breeding (chick-rearing) birds. Foraging was highly diurnal with 98 ... was 6-8 h, and birds spent 51-62% of the foraging trip diving. Dive depth and duration were bimodal. Shallow dives (30 ... and diel movements of Antarctic krill, the main winter prey of Gentoo Penguins (including study birds). We ... activity of non breeding Gentoo Penguins in winter is similar to that of chick-rearing birds. The only ...

   Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-92/37 : Author(s): T.D. Williams (United Kingdom), A. Kato (Japan), J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom), Y. Naito (Japan), D.R. Briggs, S. Rodwell and T.R. Barton (United Kingdom)

8. Seabird mortality in the artisanal austral hake and Patagonian toothfish longline fisheries in southern Chile

   by-catch was 0.030 birds/1000 hooks in the Austral hake fishery, mainly accounted by birds caught during ... the slow process of hauling. The overall by-catch rate in the Patagonian toothfish was 0.047 birds/1000 ... by-catch was 0.030 birds/1000 hooks in the Austral hake fishery, mainly accounted by birds caught during ... the slow process of hauling. The overall by-catch rate in the Patagonian toothfish was 0.047 birds/1000 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/54 : Author(s): C.A. Moreno, P. Rubilar, J. Arata, R. Hucke-Gaete (Chile) and G. Robertson (Australia)

9. Seabird mortality from longline fisheries: evidence from Marion and Gough Islands

   Diomedea exulans nests at Marion Island in the 1990s. No hooks have been found at Gough Island and no birds ... have been found dead ashore on either island as a result of fishing gear. Recoveries of banded birds ... exulans nests at Marion Island in the 1990s. No hooks have been found at Gough Island and no birds have ... been found dead ashore on either island as a result of fishing gear. Recoveries of banded birds at sea ...

   Meeting Document : WG-IMALF-94/18 : Author(s): J. Cooper (South Africa)

10. Foraging dynamics of macaroni penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus) at South Georgia during brood-guard

    (or at least overlap was restricted), and that though birds from some colonies foraged within waters influenced ... by major oceanographic features such as the southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current front, not all birds ... in the region focused on such areas as some birds foraged in other oceanographic contexts. The results from ... (or at least overlap was restricted), and that though birds from some colonies foraged within waters influenced ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/P4 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan, C. Green, J. Tanton, H. Peat, J. Poncet and A. Morton (United Kingdom)

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