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title: "Kaena Point’s Laysan Albatrosses are doing well, as translocation plans are made for two more tubenose species in the Hawaiian islands"
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# Kaena Point’s Laysan Albatrosses are doing well, as translocation plans are made for two more tubenose species in the Hawaiian islands

[Pacific Rim Conservation](https://www.pacificrimconservation.org/) reports on its [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/prconservation/photos/a.523263787745729.1073741827.521980681207373/1926821877389906/?type=3&theater) that a record 106 [Near Threatened Laysan Albatross *Phoebastria immutabilis*](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/22698365) pairs commenced breeding within the predator-proof fence at the [Kaena Point Natural Area Reserve](https://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1333-acap-breeding-sites-no-14-kaena-point-oahu-hawaii-protects-its-laysan-albatrosses-and-wedge-tailed-shearwaters-behind-a-predator-proof-fence?highlight=WyJrYWVuYSJd&lang=en) on the Hawaiian island of Oahu this year. A total of 89 chicks has hatched out of which 68 “are still going strong”.

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/L/Laysan/Laysan Albatross Kaena Point Lindsay Young 1 shrunk.jpg)

 Laysan Albatross gather at Kaena Point, photograph by Lindsay Young

 Meanwhile the Hawaiian NGO aims to add two more species to its translocation efforts: Bonin Petrels *Pterodroma hypoleuca*([Least Concern)](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/22697967)and [Near Threatened Tristram's Storm Petrels *Hydrobates tristrami*](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/Tristram) are planned to be translocated from low-lying [Tern Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tern_Island_(Hawaii)), French Frigate Shoals to higher ground on Oahu later this year ([click here](https://www.islandarks.org/species.html)).  *ACAP Latest News* will report!

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 19 March 2018*