Six presentations on albatrosses will be made this week at the Pacific Seabird Group's online Annual Meeting

This year’s Pacific Seabird Group's Annual Meeting (its 53rd) is being held held online from 23-27 February, with the theme "Seabirds: Connecting Oceans, Islands, and People”.

A list by first authors and titles of six oral and poster presentations on ACAP-listed species follows.  Four albatross species are considered, the three North Pacific albatrosses in the genus Phoebastria and the Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris of the sub-Antarctic.  Find their abstracts and all authors by scrolling to the presentation numbers in the Abstract Booklet.

9.  Nao Ota. Non-dyadic interactions during courtship communication in Short-tailed Albatrosses

15.  Jingqi Corey Liu.  Offspring telomere length reveals dissociation between parental and offspring quality in a long-lived seabird, the Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophrys) [=melanophris]

51.  Rachael Orben.  Using high-resolution satellite imagery to document the population change of two colonies of Short-tailed Albatross

60. Madeline Adams.  Looking at total mercury levels and species identification in Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) and Black-Footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) eggs from Midway Atoll

64.  Shiori Terretta.  Plastic ingestion of translocated Black-footed Albatross chicks

79.  Caitlin Dudzik, Early bird special: quantifying Tiger Shark predation on albatross fledglings at Kure Atoll

Presentations will also be made on northern hemisphere petrels, shearwaters and storm petrels, with emphasis on those that breed on the inhabited Hawaiian islands.

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 22 February 2026