Bird remains from the archaeological site of Guinea (El Hierro, Canary Islands)

Population connectivity buffers genetic diversity loss in a seabird

“…animal invasions), which have been shown to seriously impact adult survival and reproductive success (see [10]). In the Canary Islands the Cory’s shearwaters have been by and large exploited as a food resource by the aboriginal peoples who reached the islands sometime between 756 cal BC - 313 cal AD and has also suffered predation by introduced rats and cats for centuries [11]. This has possibly led to a population bottleneck.…”

Combined Spatio-Temporal Impacts of Climate and Longline Fisheries on the Survival of a Trans-Equatorial Marine Migrant

“…[86], [87]). More recently, regular chick harvest, with likely increasing intensity during most of the 20 th century, plus severe episodes of adult killings reduced dramatically the population of Selvagem Island [41].…”

Assessing the ecological basis of conservation priority lists for bird species in an island scenario

“…The administrative revision of the Canary Catalogue downgrades these five species to the categories of 'non-threatened' or 'special interest'. However, given that S. dacotiae and P. phyrrocorax currently occupy just one island (Martín & Lorenzo 2001; there is some evidence that they could have occupied other islands as well in the past, Rando et al 1997) and they raise social interest, they could be left, debatably, in a middle category. We contend that, when building a list of threat, managers, legislators and conservation advocates would frequently find these dissonances between any general model of extinction risk and the social interest a particular species raises, and that the solution to these dilemmas calls for the consideration of a set of social and economic values external to the building of any objective model of rarity (Farrier et al 2007;Leonard 2008).…”