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Three new seabird species recorded at Tristan da Cunha archipelago

Peter G. Ryan1*, Ben J. Dilley1, Michelle M. Risi2, Christopher W. Jones2, Alexis Osborne2, Andy Schofield2, Julian Repetto3 and Norman Ratcliffe4

https://doi.org/10.61350/sbj.32.122

* Correspondence author. Email: pryan31@gmail.com

1FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa;

2RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, The Lodge, Sandy SG19 2DL, UK;

3Conservation Department, Government of Tristan da Cunha, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, Tristan da Cunha TDCU 1ZZ, UK (South Atlantic Ocean);

4British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK.

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Introduction

The Tristan da Cunha archipelago comprises three main islands: Tristan, Inaccessible and Nightingale at 37ºS 12ºW, with Gough Island (40ºS 10ºW) the only other temperate oceanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean (Ryan 2007). Tristan and Gough are important breeding sites for 25 species of seabirds (Ryan 2008; Ryan et al. 2014; 2015; Robertson et al. 2016), and a further 30 species of non-breeding seabirds have been reported from the islands (Ryan 2007; Visser et al. 2009; Ryan 2010). We report three additional species from the islands based on observations from 2017 to 2019.

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