SEABIRDS IN THE STOMACH CONTENTS OF BLACK RATS RATTUS

• Main Authors: Tatsuo Yabe, Takuma Hashimoto, Masaaki Takiguchi, Masanari Aoki, Kazuto Kawakami
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: nitens; Apalopteron familiare; Tristram’s Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma tristrami; Matsudaira’s Storm-Petrel O. matsudaira and Bonin Petrel Pterodroma hypoleuca (Chiba 1992). However; they are; New Zealand; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.689.4831; http://marineornithology.org/PDF/37_3/37_3_293-295.pdf

Eradication programs for invasive rodents have accelerated since pioneering efforts by New Zealand biologists in the 1970s to conserve not only seabird populations but also island ecosystems (Howald et al. 2007, Rauzon 2007). In Japan, Black Rat Rattus rattus eradication programs have been carried out recently in the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands (Hashimoto 2009, Makino 2009). The Ogasawara Islands are known to be a sanctuary for birds, including several indigenous or endangered species such as Columba janthina