---
title: "Hoping for an egg: Short-tailed Albatrosses are back on Midway"
---

# Hoping for an egg: Short-tailed Albatrosses are back on Midway

A pair of [Vulnerable](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/22698335) Short-tailed Albatrosses *Phoebastria albatrus* has been photographed on Sand Island, part of the [Midway National Wildlife Refuge](http://www.fws.gov/midway/) ([click here](https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofMidwayNWR/photos/a.302669273115593.66468.296495437066310/1177434512305727/?type=3&theater)) .*![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/Short_tailed_pair_Midway_Wieteke_Holthuijzen.jpg)*

 Sand Island's Short-tailed Albatross pair, photograph by Wieteke Holthuijzen [https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofMidwayNWR/photos/a.302669273115593.66468.296495437066310/1177434512305727/?type=3&theater](https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofMidwayNWR/photos/a.302669273115593.66468.296495437066310/1177434512305727/?type=3&theater)

 Previously, a pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses has bred successfully on [Midway](http://www.acap.aq/en/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?highlight=WyJtaWR3YXkiLCJtaWR3YXkncyIsIm1pZHdheSciLCJubyIsIidubyJd)'s Eastern Island within the atoll, fledging several chicks ([click here](http://www.acap.aq/en/search14?q=Midway+Short-tailed)).  Short-tails have been recorded singly on Sand Island before but breeding has not yet been observed.

 “Refuge staff are hopeful that this pair may produce an egg this season”.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 02 January 2017*