Search for the Fiji Petrel – Video

Fri, May 20, 2011

The first Fiji Petrel to be photographed at sea, off Gau Island, Fiji, May 2009 (Copyright H. Shirihai/The Tubenoses Project).

A short video showing the search for the Criticality Endangered Fiji Petrel by NatureFiji-MareqetiViti.

Known from just one specimen collected in 1855 on Gau Island, Fiji, the Fiji Petrel was lost for the next 130 years. Since 1984 there have been a handful of reports of “grounded” birds that had crashed onto village roofs on Gau. Until 2009 there had been no confirmed sightings of the seabird at sea. This video shows the voyage that captured the first amazing images of the bird.

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Initiated in 1999, the Pacific Partnership comprises a network of seven national NGOs in Australia, the Cook Islands, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Palau and Samoa.

CEPF, Conservation International, Critically Endangered, Fiji, Fiji Petrel, Global Environment Facility, Government of Japan, l’Agence Francaise de Developpement, MacArthur Foundation, NatureFiji-MareqetiViti, Preventing Extinctions, Seabirds, World Bank

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