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title: "Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses have been surveyed on Macquarie Island this austral summer with 2143 breeding pairs counted"
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# Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses have been surveyed on Macquarie Island this austral summer with 2143 breeding pairs counted

A whole-island census of Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses *Phoebetria palpebrata* was undertaken on Australia’s [Macquarie Island](http://www.acap.aq/index.php/en/component/content/article/14-news/latest-news/1347-breeding-sites-no-19-macquarie-island-a-recovering-sub-antarctic-world-heritage-site) in November 2013 with 2143 nesting pairs of this biennially-breeding species counted ([click here](http://www.antarctica.gov.au/living-and-working/stations/macquarie-island/this-week-at-macquarie-island/page?id=121764&st=Macquarie&dt=MjAxNC0wMS0xMA==&test=2014-01-10)).

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/L/Light_mantled/Light-mantled_Sooty_Albatross_by_Aleks_Terauds.jpg)

 A Light-mantled Sooty Albatross chick, photograph by Aleks Terauds

 The ACAP Data Portal reports 1550-2700 pairs in 2010/11 for this [ACAP-listed](http://www.acap.aq/index.php/en/resources/acap-spec) and [Near Threatened](http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3971) species on Macquarie ([click here](https://data.acap.aq/breeding_site.cfm?bs_id=107)).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 13 January 2014*