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title: "Translocated Black-footed Albatrosses fledge from Mexico’s Guadalupe Island for the third year of an international project"
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# Translocated Black-footed Albatrosses fledge from Mexico’s Guadalupe Island for the third year of an international project

*![Black foot translocation 8 JA Soriano GECI](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Black_footed/Black-foot_translocation_8_JA_Soriano_GECI.jpg)|  
Airborne! A translocated Black-footed chick close to fledging takes a leap on Guadalupe Island, photograph by J.A. Soriano,* *Conservación de Islas (GECI)*

 The third year of a binational project to establish a breeding colony of  Black-footed Albatrosses *Phoebastria nigripes* ([BFAL](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/black-footed-albatross-phoebastria-nigripes)) by the translocation of eggs and chicks from the USA’s Hawaii islands to Mexico’s [Guadalupe Island](https://acap.aq/news/news-archive/2013-news-archive/acap-breeding-sites-no-34-isla-guadalupe-mexico-supports-an-increasing-population-of-laysan-albatrosses-despite-predation-by-feral-cats) has been successfully completed with 32 chicks fledging ([click here](https://www.facebook.com/prconservation)). This brings the number of Black-footed Albatrosses fledging from Guadalupe over the three years of the project to 93.

 “In a pioneer conservation project, [Pacific Rim Conservation](https://pacificrimconservation.org/), [Conservación de Islas](https://www.facebook.com/IslasGECI?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZVdUNYSiytB5i2WjBVR8eRMqBjkBSBM_oGDJLRgEP7lnfc5ObwNr1PnxMXkRHW4JV6Yd5LqdsdGnV-tlIUsHF9S7F9Vd0euAhP2KLiLDySxU9aLyIhxpIcuQ83Y4Qg8ibnoLx2FkjnqXN_R8Wzh0RTwWzksv6RHZeIPJjqhCDou8UK1XTMUHkaHtH4bvAG896g&__tn__=-%5dK-R) and governmental institutions from USA and Mexico, have worked together to restore a nesting population of BFAL in Guadalupe Island, providing an alternative refuge and giving hope to the species to survive climate change effects.”

 *![Guadaupe translocation team PRC](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Black_footed/Guadaupe_translocation_team_PRC.jpg)  
Eggs arrive! Celebrating the international translocation project with a banner on Guadalupe, photograph from Pacific Rim Conservation*

 According to Pacific Rim Conservation, translocated Black-footed Albatrosses should start returning as young adults to Guadalupe Island by 2026. Based on the environmental NGO’s [translocation efforts](https://www.islandarks.org/) with Black-footed and [Laysan](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/laysan-albatross-phoebastria-immutabilis) *P. immutabilis* Albatrosses in the [James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge](https://www.fws.gov/refuge/james-campbell) on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, pair formation and then egg laying should follow in the next couple of years.

 ![Guadalupe translocation map](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Black_footed/Guadalupe_translocation_map.jpg)

 ![Guadaupe translocation](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Black_footed/Guadaupe_translocation.jpg)

 *The Mexican project partner, Conservación de Islas (GECI), describes the the translocation project in Spanish*

 Read more about the Guadalupe translocation project from [here](https://acap.aq/search?q=Black-footed+Guadalupe&Search=&w1=before&d1=&w2=before&d2=).

 Mexico is not a Party to the Agreement but has attended some ACAP meetings as a breeding range state.

 *John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 03 August 2023*