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title: "126 Mōlī nests as the 2020/21 season gets underway in the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on Kauai"
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# 126 Mōlī nests as the 2020/21 season gets underway in the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on Kauai

 ![Kilauea Point Laysan lighthouse Jacqueline Olivera](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/L/Laysan/Kilauea_Point_Laysan_lighthouse_Jacqueline_Olivera.jpg)

 * A Laysan Albatross within the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge; photograph by Jacqueline Olivera*

 The [Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge](https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Kilauea_Point/) on the Hawaiian island of Kauai supported a total of 116 pairs of Laysan Albatrosses or Mōlī *Phoebastria immutabilis* in the 2019/20 breeding season, from which 44 chicks fledged to give a breeding success of 37.9%.  Introduced predators such as feral cats and pigs likely contributed to this low percentage, confirming the need for a new predator-proof fence ([click here](https://acap.aq/latest-news/3801-in-need-of-a-new-fence-kilauea-point-s-laysan-albatrosses-have-a-poor-breeding-season-with-only-36-chicks-fledging?highlight=WyJraWxhdWVhIiwicG9pbnQiLCJwb2ludCdzIiwicG9pbnQnLCIsImtpbGF1ZWEgcG9pbnQiXQ==)).

 Latest news from the national wildlife refuge’s [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/KilaueaPointNWR/) is that there are 126 Mōlī nests within the [refuge](https://acap.aq/latest-news/1654-acap-breeding-site-no-63-kilauea-point-national-wildlife-refuge-home-of-a-laysan-albatross-population) this season, ten more than in the previous season.  Let’s hope breeding success inceases as well.  In the 2018/19 season 121 active nests were counted in December.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 02 January 2020*