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title: "George and Geraldine, Short-tailed Albatrosses on Midway, hatch their latest egg"
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# George and Geraldine, Short-tailed Albatrosses on Midway, hatch their latest egg

![George Geraldine Jan 2021](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/George_Geraldine_Jan_2021.jpg)

 *The 2021 chick is revealed by George, photograph by Jon Brack, [Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge](https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofMidwayNWR), January 2021*

 *and watch the [video clip](https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofMidwayNWR/videos/690479768302922)*

 George and Geraldine make up the sole pair of [Vulnerable](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/short-tailed-albatross-phoebastria-albatrus) Short-tailed Albatrosses *Diomedea albatrus* on [Midway Atoll](https://acap.aq/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1434-acap-breeding-site-no-36-midway-atoll-black-footed-laysan-and-short-tailed-albatrosses-within-a-world-heritage-site)’s Sand Island.  They commenced breeding on the island in 2018 after first meeting up on the island in 2016 and have attempted breeding every year since.  Apart from a female-female pair on Kure Atoll they are currently the only breeding Short-tails on USA territory.  News is now in that they have [hatched their latest egg](https://medium.com/usfwspacificislands/rare-endangered-short-tailed-albatross-chick-hatches-at-midway-atoll-national-wildlife-refuge-1a0f6508ee97): ["](https://acap.aq/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1434-acap-breeding-site-no-36-midway-atoll-black-footed-laysan-and-short-tailed-albatrosses-within-a-world-heritage-site)The short-tailed albatross pair … laid their egg on October 28 [2020].  Since then, biologists have had a trail camera trained on the nest, hoping to catch the first images of the chick hatching.  Biologists believe the egg hatched on January 1.”

 To date, George and Geraldine have [successfully fledged two chick](https://acap.aq/search14?q=Geraldine)s on Midway; good parents, so a third fledgling later this year may well be expected. [search14?q=Geraldine](https://acap.aq/search14?q=Geraldine)Read more on the [history](https://usfwspacific.tumblr.com/post/182615123640/george-and-geraldine-a-short-tailed-albatross) of the pair.

 [https://usfwspacific.tumblr.com/post/182615123640/george-and-geraldine-a-short-tailed-albatross](https://usfwspacific.tumblr.com/post/182615123640/george-and-geraldine-a-short-tailed-albatross)*John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 26 January 2021*