Hi folks,

Thought that some of us might be interested in the following sea bird
journal. Some of these Aussie gooney-birds make it to our shores....

I presume that anyone who's interested should be able to get copies of
the articles through their interlibrary loan program.

Jon. Anderson
Olympia, Washington
festuca at olywa.net

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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:42:23 +1000
From: David James <dave-james at beyond.net.au>
To: dave-james at beyond.net.au
Cc: birding-aus at vicnet.net.au, seabird at uct.ac.za
Subject: [SEABIRD] contents of ASB 36

Hi seabird people,

For your interest, the "April" Issue # 36 of "Australasian Seabird
Bulletin" is in press and will be posted to subscribers in the next few days.
please note the name change (formerly Australasian Seabird Group
Newsletter). It is considered that the publication is more of a bulletin
than a newsletter because of the contents and the publication frequency.

The Contents of Issue 36 are:

Number 36 June 2000

>From The Editor....1
News From New Zealand....1
SHOC 2000....2
Overview of SHOC 2000 Symposium: Ecology and Life History of Seabirds....2
Abstracts for SHOC 2000 Symposium 4a: Seabird Conservation Issues....3
Australian policy and actions relating to albatross conservation....3
Occurrence of disease in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic seabirds....4
Fishing out the food of seabirds around southern Africa -
primary and secondary effects....4
Vulnerability of seabirds to oil pollution in southern Australia....5
Abandoned Penguin Colonies and Climate Change in Antarctica....5
Managing human visitation to seabirds: Recent research from Antarctica....6
Ad?lie penguin diet and climate change in the Antarctic Peninsula....6
Seabird mortality in the Patagonian Toothfish longline fishery....7
The unrevealed Southern Rockhopper Penguins at Staten Island,
Tierra del Fuego: their largest breeding ground?....7
Interactions between seabirds, seals and fishing vessels in the Patagonian
Toothfish trawl fishery....8
Winter diet of Emperor penguins ....8
Mortality of seabirds in longline fisheries....8
Towards a conservation strategy for the Antarctic....9
Tern banding by the Victorian Wader Study Group, 1999/2000....10
Tern Counts in South Australia, February - March 2000: A Preliminary Report 11
Comments on Albatross Taxonomy and Species Concepts....13
Ashmore Reef Pelagic Trip, October to November 1999....17
Overlooked Early records of Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel off North-West
Australia?....19
The Ship's Log: Shipboard Observations, September 1999 to June 2000....20
Conservation Update....25
Conserving southern hemisphere albatrosses and petrels with The Bonn
Convention for Migratory Species....25
Notices and Announcements....27

Membership of Australasian Seabird Group including Subscription to ASB is
A$15 + GST (concession, family and institution rates available on request.)
plus an additional $5 for mebership outside Australia and New Zealand.
Please direct membership inquiries to:

The Membership Officer,
Birds Australia,
415 Riversdale Rd
Hawthorn East, Victoria, 3123 Australia.
membership at raou.com.au
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David James
PO BOX 5225
Townsville Mail Centre,
Qld 4810, Australia
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