Seabird Species added to the AEWA threatened list

Twenty waterbirds were added to the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA).

Seabirds now internationally protected across Africa and Eurasia. A total of twenty migratory waterbird species, including several species of auks, frigate birds, gannets and tropic birds have been added to Annex 2 of the African‐Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement (UNEP/AEWA) ‐ an international treaty dedicated to the conservation of migratory waterbirds in Africa and Eurasia.

The birds are: English Name (Species Name)
Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica)
Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle)
Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
Bridled Tern (Sterna anaethetus)
Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus)
Brunnich’s Guillemot (Uria lomvia)
Common Guillemot (Uria aalge)
Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor)
Great Skua (Catharacta skua)
Long-tailed Skua (Stercorarius longicaudus)
Lesser Frigatebird (Fregata ariel)
Lesser Noddy (Anous tenuirostris)
Little Auk (Alle alle)
Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra)
Northern Gannet (Sula (Morus) bassana)
Razorbill (Alca torda)
Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aetheras)
Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda)
Sooty Tern (Sterna fuscata)
White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus)

For more information visit African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement