Asia & Oceania

  • Orben et al. (2025)

    The Seabird Oceanography Lab, in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is using high-resolution satellite images to count short-tailed albatross colonies with the goal of providing a population estimate of the Senkaku Island colony. Successful collections of imagery of the island group occurred in December 2023 and December 2024. Images have undergone…

  • Suzuki et al. (2025)

    Yasuko Suzuki (BirdLife International), Motohiro Ito (Toyo University) and his students, and Nobuhiko Sato (in an advisory role, Fisheries Research and Education Agency) continued an experimental study on a gillnet bycatch mitigation technique in collaboration with Tokyo Sea Life Park in Japan. The experiment was conducted in an aviary located at an aquarium with a…

  • Yu et al. (2025)

    Yat-tung Yu and John C.T. Chung, with the team of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society, has continued banding Bridled Terns (Onychoprion anaethetus) in Hong Kong for eight consecutive years as of 2024. In summer 2024, a total of 63 Bridled Tern adults (6 individuals) and chicks (57 individuals) were caught and banded. Three adults…

  • Tirtaningtyas and Kaban (2025)

    This activity was funded by 2024 Small Grant Fund for Working Groups and Task Forces East Asia Australasia Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) with the title “Monitoring the Christmas Frigatebird in Jakarta Bay August 2023 – August 2024.” This report is already sent to the EAAFP Secretariat. Our collaboration activity between Burung Laut Indonesia and the Conservation…

  • Oppel et al. (2025)

    The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), Auckland Zoo, and Manaaki Whenua (Landcare Research, New Zealand) conducted an expedition to Henderson Island in June and July 2024 to explore options for the eradication of invasive rats (kiore, Rattus exulans), which have decimated seabird populations (Murphy’s Petrel Pterodroma ultima, Henderson Petrel P. atrata, Herald…

  • Zavalaga et al. (2024)

    Mapping Trans-Pacific Routes of New Zealand Mollymawks: Assessing Risks of Interaction with Fisheries along a Flyway to South America In January 2024, I (Zavalaga) embarked on a scientific expedition to the remote Forty-four Island, situated in close proximity to Chatham Island, New Zealand. The primary objective of this fieldtrip was to conduct tagging operations on…

  • Orben et al. (2024c)

    The Seabird Oceanography Lab, in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), is using high-resolution satellite images to count Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) colonies with the goal of providing a population estimate of the Senkaku Island colony. Across the 2022–2023 breeding season, the team collected six very high (0.3-meter) spatial resolution satellite images…

  • Heswall et al. (2024)

    Why did they die? Analysing the cause of death of grounded seabirds lodged at an avian rescue centre in Auckland, New Zealand Each year from 2018–2023, over 100 Cook’s Petrels (Tītī; Pterodroma cookii) became grounded in Auckland, New Zealand, as a result of light pollution. We performed necropsies on 19 grounded Cook’s Petrels that did…

  • DuVall et al. (2024)

    Beth Gardner, Sarah Converse, Amelia DuVall, and Eve Hallock (University of Washington) deployed 12 GPS logging tags with accelerometers on nesting Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) individuals in fall 2023 to inform fine-scale foraging information linked to breeding success on Tetiaroa Atoll, French Polynesia. They plan to deploy an additional 15 units in spring 2024. They…

  • Yu & Chung (2024)

    Pacific Seabird Group 2024 Regional Report – Hong Kong, China Yat-tung Yu and John C.T. Chung, with the team of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society, have continued banding Bridled Terns (Onychoprion anaethetus; BRTE) in Hong Kong for seven consecutive years as of 2023. In total, 447 Bridled Terns were banded from 2017 to 2023,…