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title: "Pyramid to Point Gap: Year Three of establishing a new colony of Chatham Albatrosses is now underway"
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# Pyramid to Point Gap: Year Three of establishing a new colony of Chatham Albatrosses is now underway

A total of 110 [ACAP-listed](http://www.acap.aq/en/resources/acap-species2) and [Vulnerable](http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3963) Chatham Albatross *Thalassarche eremita* chicks was moved from the [Pyramid](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1315-acap-breeding-sites-no-9-the-pyramid-chatham-islands-new-zealand), the species’ sole breeding site, to Point Gap on the main Chatham Island in 2014 and 2105 in an effort to establish a new breeding colony.  The chicks were hand fed until they fledged, only six not surviving due to heat stress ([click here](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/2357-over-a-hundred-chatham-albatrosses-have-fledged-from-their-translocation-colony?highlight=WyJ0YWlrbyIsInRydXN0IiwidHJ1c3QncyIsInRhaWtvIHRydXN0Il0=)).

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/C/Chatham/Chatham_Albatross_Taiko_Trust.jpg) 

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 Collection day: Chatham Albatrosses with large chicks on The Pyramid

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/C/Chatham/Chatham_Albatross_Taiko_Trust3.jpg)

 The translocated chicks settle in on their bucket nests at Point Gap among models of adults

 Photographs by the Chatham Islands Taiko Trust

 The [Chatham Islands Taiko Trust](http://www.taiko.org.nz/) successfully transferred a further 50 chicks for the third year of the project last week on the Pyramid to Point Gap.  It is intended to continue translocations for a further two years.

 Access past news about the translocation project [here](http://www.acap.aq/en/search14?q=Chatham+translocation).  More photos of the 2016 translocation are on the Trust’s [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/chathamtaikotrust/?fref=ts).

 **Reference:**

 Bell, M. 2015.  Establishing a new colony of Chatham Island Albatross in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand.  *Sea Swallow* 64: 4-8.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 24 February 2016*