“George” and “Geraldine”, a pair of globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus, that have been attempting to breed on Sand Island in the USA’s Midway Atoll are thought to have fledged their first chick this year – and the first...
Continuing the series of occasional ALN postings on the roles of art and literature in the conservation of albatrosses and petrels, here is a poem by Australian albatross researcher, Melanie Wells, entitled The Way You Fly. The Way You Fly It’s in the...
UPDATE: All the six Laysan Albatross eggs laid at Kahuku Point last year hatched, according to Sheldon Plentovich, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Pacific Islands Coastal Program Coordinator, in correspondence with ACAP Latest News: "One chick...
“George” and “Geraldine”, a pair of globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus, returned to Sand Island in the USA’s Midway Atoll in the north Pacific in October last year (click here). Since then the pair laid an egg which...
Globally Near Threatened Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis have been reported breeding this season in the north-eastern corner of the Hawaiian Island of Oahu at Kahuku Point. In response the NGO “non-profit” Hawaii Marine Animal Response...
“George” and “Geraldine”, a pair of globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus, returned to Sand Island in the USA’s Midway Atoll in the north Pacific on October 24 and October 25 this year, respectively, thereafter reported as...
The Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife Service (PWS) is seeking two volunteers as biologists on Australia’s sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, breeding home for seven ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels. Wandering Albatross chick on Macquarie Island, photograph...
Doğa, the partner of BirdLife International in Turkey, reported on its website and Facebook page yesterday of Vulnerable Yelkouan Shearwaters Puffinus yelkouan being caught by Istanbul recreational fishers by rod and by hand line with “tens of...
A total of 282 globally Vulnerable and New Zealand endemic Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita chicks has been translocated by the Chatham Islands Taiko Trust from the Pyramid, the species’ sole breeding site, to Point Gap on the main Chatham Island...
The passing of Chandler Seymour ‘Chan’ Robbins (17 July 1918 - 20 March 2017) this week is a sad loss to ornithology Chandler Robbins’ long career (he lived to 98 years of age and worked well into his retirement years as a volunteer with the U.S....