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Updates on the conservation of albatrosses in the Hawaiian islands
The 2019 fledgling Short-tailed Albatross (right) returns to Midway Atoll. Its parents are on the left; photograph by Jon Plissner Note: ACAP Latest News aims to post on recent developments and findings in procellariiform science and conservation...
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Snowflake plus 26! All the translocated Black-footed Albatrosses have fledged from Mexico’s Guadalupe Island
A translocated Black-footed Albatross fledgling on Isla Guadalupe, photograph by J.A. Soriano, GECI An international Black-footed Albatross translocation project from the USA’s Midway Atoll in Hawaii to Isla Guadalupe in Mexico has met with success in...
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Repeating last year’s achievement – the first translocated Black-footed Albatross chick on Oahu fledges on World Albatross Day
Ready to fledge: a translocated Black-footed Albatross rests betweem two adult decoys; photograph by Leilani Fowlke, Pacific Rim Conservation The first Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes (Near Threatened) of the current cohort of translocated...
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Mexico fledges ‘Snowflake’, its first ever Black-footed Albatross, in time for World Albatross Day
Post No. 6 for ‘WADWEEK2021’ In the air and ready to fledge with its metal and colour bands: a translocated Black-footed Albatross on Isla Guadalupe - with a guano-splattered decoy watching on The first globally Near Threatened Black-footed Albatross...
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Black-foots from USA to Mexico: first international albatross translocation is underway
A long-term conservation project: “Reintroduction of Black-footed Albatrosses (Phoebastria nigripes) from Midway Atoll National Refuge, USA to Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve, Mexico” has been initiated by the United States Fish & Wildlife Service...
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A new colony gets underway. Wild Laysan Albatrosses are breeding in Hawaii’s James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge
A wild Laysan Albatross incubates its egg in the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge, photograph by Lindsay Young A three-year project over 2015/16 to 2017/18 by the environmental NGO Pacific Rim Conservation (PRC) to create a new colony from 50...
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Presentations on albatrosses and bycatch at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 2020 meeting
The Pacific Seabird Group held its 47th Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, USA over 12 - 15 February this year. A list of presentations on albatrosses and seabird bycatch by fisheries with their senior authors follows. Their abstracts may be found...
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Breeding next? Four translocated Laysan Albatross chicks have returned as adults to Hawaii’s James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge
Laysan Albatross V301, fledged 2016, seen back in 2020, photograph by Pacific Rim Conservation V106 as a downy chick during hand rearing in 2015, photograph by Robby Kohley, Pacific Rim Conservation VI06 back in the refuge, photograph by Megan Dalton,...
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Fourth year of Black-footed Albatross translocation goes well as all 25 fledge from Hawaii’s James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge
Black-footed Albatross chicks of the 2018 translocation cohort in the James Campbell National Wildlife Reserve, photograph from Pacific Rim Conservation Twenty-five Near Threatened Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes chicks were transported by...
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Pacific Rim Conservation interns practice social distancing to display their World Albatross Day art
Pacific Rim Conservation is a non-profit organization based on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Founded in 2006, it undertakes and supports research-based management on native species, particularly birds. The PSG’s mission is to maintain and restore native...
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