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title: "News from Midway: watch America's first ever Short-tailed Albatross chick get fed"
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# News from Midway: watch America's first ever Short-tailed Albatross chick get fed

[Click here](http://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwspacific/sets/72157625522391142/) to view the latest pictures of the first Short-tailed Albatross *Phoebastria albatrus* chick on USA soil: on Eastern Island, in the [Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge](http://www.fws.gov/midway/), part of the [Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument](http://www.fws.gov/midway/monument.html) in the Northwestern Hawaiian Chain, including a video of it being fed on 29 January.

 [![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/short-tailed_albatross_midway_female_sarah_gutowsky.jpg "Eastern Island's Short-tailed Albatross between two decoys.  Photograph by Sarah Gutowsky ")](http://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwspacific/sets/72157625522391142/)[http://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwspacific/sets/72157625522391142/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwspacific/sets/72157625522391142/)

 For a student's report of a visit to the STAL nest site on Eastern Island last month [click here](http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/hawaii/2011/blog/day-seven-midway-is-for-the-birds).

 Access earlier ACAP [news items](https://acap.aq/latest-news/a-real-american-chick-the-midway-short-tailed-albatrosses-hatch-their-egg) on Midway's STALs.

 With thanks to Lindsay Young for information.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 17 February 2011*