The Ashy Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma homochroa is endemic to the southern California Current System (CCS) and breeds only on Californian islands (including northern Baja California, Mexico) and a few mainland sites (Carter et al. 1992, Ainley 1995, McChesney et al. 2000, Spear & Ainley 2007, Carter et al. 2008). Storm-petrels are long-lived (c. 30 years), exhibit delayed first breeding and have lo...

This paper reviews the distribution of seabird species with the WCPFC Area. From a review of the distributions of 99 species of albatross and petrel, 16 species of albatross and 60 species of petrel occur within the area of the WCPFC, and are potentially vulnerable to fisheries bycatch. These include species with IUCN classification of Critically Endangered (n = 1), Endangered (n = 7), Vulnerab...

Many burrowing petrels are able to return to their nests in complete darkness. The well-developed anatomy of their olfactory system and the attraction that food-related odour cues have for some petrel species suggest that olfaction may be used to recognize the burrow. In contrast, surface-nesting petrels may rely on visual cues to recognise their nest. We performed experiments on nine species o...

To sustain its competitive position as the leader in providing information solutions to the oil and gas industry, Schlumberger transitioned to a cutting-edge product-platform software architecture by embedding a leading geological modeling software product—Petrel—within Ocean, its collaborative open software platform. The purpose was to open up Petrel through the layered Ocean platform to broad...

We describe a new Procellaria petrel species from the late Pliocene of Taranaki, New Zealand. The is most similar morphologically to White-Chinned Petrel (P. aequinoctialis), Spectacled conspicillata) and Westland westlandica). Compared with those taxa, has deeper shorter premaxilla, longer coracoid wings, while its legs are size. Today, Zealand centre global diversity genus, four breeding spec...

Page 58. Under Ixodes amersoni Kohls, 1966Host(s)Seabird: Pterodroma lessonii.should be corrected to:Seabird: Procelsterna cerulea albivitta.Page 59, lines 5–6. “Note”, second sentence: “The record from the blue-grey noddy (Procelsterna ceruleaalbivitta) in Heath (2010a: 13, 16) is erroneous.”should be corrected to:“The record from the white-headed petrel (Pterodroma lessonii) in Heath (2010a: ...

Antarctic fulmarine petrels breed in some of the coldest conditions encountered by any bird and their young grow twice as fast as predicted allometrically. To examine the energetic consequences of fast growth in a cold environment, we used the doubly labeled water technique to measure field metabolic rates of adults (three species) and different-aged nestlings (four species) of Antarctic fulmar...