Improved breeding success of Great-winged Petrels Pterodroma macroptera following control of feral cats Felis catus at subantarctic Marion Island

• Published in: Bird Conservation International
• Main Authors: Cooper, John, Fourie, André
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1991
• Subjects: Nature and Landscape Conservation; Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology; Endeavour; Marion Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270900002033; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0959270900002033

Summary A population of feral domestic cats Felis catus has existed at subantarctic Marion Island since 1951. From 1977 to 1990 an ongoing programme has utilized an introduced disease, shooting and gin-trapping in an endeavour to control cat numbers, with the eventual aim of their eradication. Burro...