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title: "Torishima, volcanic home of the Short-tailed Albatross, marks World Albatross Day with a banner"
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# Torishima, volcanic home of the Short-tailed Albatross, marks World Albatross Day with a banner

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 *The Short-tailed and Black-footed Albatross Research Team at the Hatsunezaki colony*

 *From left: Miwa Konno, Naoki Tomita, Bungo Nishizawa, Yuna Kimoto, Masayoshi Kamioki, Satoshi Konno and Haruka Hayashi, photograph by Miwa Konno*

  The [World Albatross Day](https://www.acap.aq/en/world-albatross-day/introduction-to-world-albatross-day)2020 banner challenge has now reached 18 islands with the display of a banner on Japan’s [Torishima](https://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/1679-acap-breeding-site-no-65-torishima-where-short-tailed-albatrosses-have-survived-both-feather-collectors-and-an-active-volcano?highlight=WyJ0b3Jpc2hpbWEiLCJ0b3Jpc2hpbWEncyIsImhhc2VnYXdhIiwibm8iLCInbm8iXQ==) in the Izu Islands, home of most of the world’s [globally Vulnerable](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/short-tailed-albatross-phoebastria-albatrus) Short-tailed Albatrosses *Phoebastria albatrus.*

 Naoki Tomita of the [Yamashina Institute for Ornithology](https://www.acap.aq/en/latest-news/3568-japan-s-yamashina-institute-for-ornithology-lends-it-support-to-world-albatross-day-2020) reports to *ACAP Latest News* that the banner was displayed on Torishima by the 2020 Short-tailed and Black-footed Albatross Research Team from the Yamashina Institute near the Hatsunezaki Short-tailed Albatross colony.  It was joined with a flag designed by Fumio Sato who was the Leader of the project that established this new colony in 1995 by attracting birds using decoys and audio devices ([click here](http://www.yamashina.or.jp/hp/english/albatross/decoy.html)).  The 2020 research team was on the island over February and March monitoring the island’s albatrosses.

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 *Yasuka and Mitsuki Tomita making the banner, photograph by Naoki Tomita*

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  *The Torishima banner completed, photograph by Yasuko Tomita*

 The Torishima WAD2020 banner was made by Naoki Tomita’s wife, Yasuko and daughter, Mitsuku.  Both, Naoki reports, much enjoyed the task.

 With thanks to Naoki, Yasuko and Mitsuki Tomita.

 **References:**

 Eda, M., Izumi, H., Konno, S., Konno, M. & Sato, F. 2016. Assortative mating in two populations of Short-tailed Albatross *Phoebastria albatrus* on Torishima. [*Ibis* 158: 868-875](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ibi.12397).

 Sato, F. 2009.  Increase in pairs of the Short-tailed Albatross *Diomedea albatrus* at an artificial breeding ground.  [*Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology* 40: 139-143](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jyio/40/2/40_2_139/_article/-char/ja/).

 Sato, F., Momose, K., Tsurumi, M., Hiraoka, YT., Mitamura, A. & Baba, T. 1998.  The first breeding success in the Short-tailed Albatross Colony Restoration Project on Tori-shima, using decoys and vocal lure.  [*Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology* 30: 1-21](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jyio1952/30/1/30_1_1/_article).

 ![Short tailed Albatross Shary Page Weckwerth](https://acap.aq/images/WAD/Short-tailed_Albatross_Shary_Page_Weckwerth.jpg)

 *Short-tailed Albatross by [ABUN](https://www.facebook.com/groups/ABUN4Nature/)artist, Shary Page Weckwerth‎*

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 25 April 2020*