. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club. Don Merton & Mike Bell 212 Bull. 2003 123(4) New seabird records from Round Island, Mauritius by Don Merton & Mike Bell Received 14 October 1999, revision received 13 August 2003 During conservation management work being undertaken by the authors on Round Island, Mauritius, Indian Ocean, four species of seabird not previously recorded there were observed or captured. Round Island (19°51'S, 57°48'E; Fig. 1), a Nature Reserve, km north-east of Cape Malheureux on the Mauritius mainland, has an area of 151 ha and rises to 280 m
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club. Don Merton & Mike Bell 212 Bull. 2003 123(4) New seabird records from Round Island, Mauritius by Don Merton & Mike Bell Received 14 October 1999, revision received 13 August 2003 During conservation management work being undertaken by the authors on Round Island, Mauritius, Indian Ocean, four species of seabird not previously recorded there were observed or captured. Round Island (19°51'S, 57°48'E; Fig. 1), a Nature Reserve, km north-east of Cape Malheureux on the Mauritius mainland, has an area of 151 ha and rises to 280 m It is one of the larger and more distant outliers of a scattered group of six small uninhabited islands of volcanic origin off the northern coast of Mauritius. The island comprises part of the rim of an extinct and partly submerged basaltic volcanic cone. The surface is dominated by exposed rock with generally small isolated pockets of soil supporting remnants of degraded vegetation. Two mammal species were introduced last century - goats which were eradicated in c. 1979 and rabbits which were eradicated in 1986 (Anon. 1987, Merton 1987). The Point Landing rock. Pi Corinthien 300m 600m PI Mate pan Figure 1. Location of seabird sightings on Round Island. A: Audubon's Shearwater caught 15 July 198! and heard 11 August 1993, B: Little Shearwater caught 8 September 1986, C: Bulwer's Petrel caught II June 1987, D: Bulwer's Petrel incubating egg in nest, 7 December Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Ornithologists Club. Oxford : Clarendon Press
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