#7970. Mouse eradication is required to prevent local extinction of an endangered seabird on an oceanic island

October 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Petrels (Procellariidae) are a highly diverse family of seabirds, many of which are globally threatened due to the impact of invasive species on breeding populations. While predation by invasive cats and rats has led to the extinction of petrel populations, the impact of invasive house mice Mus musculus is slower and less well documented. However, mice impact small burrow-nesting species such as MacGillivray’s prion Pachyptila macgillivrayi, a species classified as endangered because it has been extirpated on islands in the Indian Ocean by introduced rodents. We use historic abundance data and demographic monitoring data from 20XX to 20XX to predict the population trajectory of MacGillivray’s prion on Gough Island with and without a mouse eradication using a stochastic integrated population model.
Keywords:
eradication; extinction risk; invasive species; island restoration; MacGillivray’s prion; Mus musculus; petrels; population model

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