From low to high: translocating Black-footed Albatross chicks from Midway to Oahu to combat sea-level risehttps://acap.aq/latest-news/from-low-to-high-translocating-black-footed-albatross-chicks-from-midway-to-oahu-to-combat-sea-level-rise

24 February 2017 ACAP Latest News has previously reported on plans to move Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes chicks from low-lying Midway Atoll to be artificially reared in the James Campbell Wildlife Refuge on Oahu. The aim of the project is to create a new...

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UPDATED: Third year of translocating Laysan Albatrosses to the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge gets underwayhttps://acap.aq/latest-news/third-year-of-translocating-laysan-albatrosses-to-the-james-campbell-national-wildlife-refuge-gets-underway

24 January 2017 In the last two years fertile eggs of the Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis from the Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands on the Hawaiian island of Kauai have been collected and following artificial incubation and fostering, the ensuing...

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From Midway to Oahu by jet: 15 Black-footed Albatross chicks to be translocated in 2017https://acap.aq/latest-news/from-midway-to-oahu-by-jet-15-black-footed-albatross-chicks-to-be-translocated-in-2017

12 December 2016 Megan Dalton, a biologist with the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation, writes in the latest issue of Gooney Gazette II, the newsletter of the Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Reserve (FOMA), on plans to establish a colony of globally Near...

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Translocated Laysan Albatrosses are doing well for the second season in the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on Oahuhttps://acap.aq/latest-news/translocated-laysan-albatrosses-are-doing-well-for-the-second-season-in-the-james-campbell-national-wildlife-refuge-on-oahu

26 April 2016 The second season of hand-rearing Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis artificially hatched from translocated eggs on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu is going well. Twenty chicks (from eggs collected on the nearby island of Kauai) are now being hand...

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Who’s the dummy? Using sight and sound to attract Black-footed Albatrosses in Hawaiihttps://acap.aq/latest-news/who-s-the-dummy-using-sight-and-sound-to-attract-black-footed-albatrosses-in-hawaii

02 January 2016 Lindsay Young and Eric Vanderwerf (Pacific Rim Conservation, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) have published in ‘Elepaio, journal of the Hawai‘i Audubon Society, on attempts to establish the Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes as a breeding species at...

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ACAP Breeding Site No. 75. North-east Kauai, where Laysan Albatrosses breed on private lands - and a webcam has made one pair and its chick famous with two million hitshttps://acap.aq/latest-news/acap-breeding-site-no-75-north-east-kauai-where-laysan-albatrosses-breed-on-private-lands-and-a-webcam-has-made-one-pair-and-its-chick-famous-with-two-million-hits

14 December 2014 Kauai, one of the USA’s inhabited Hawaiian Islands in the North Pacific, supports several populations of Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis. Although small, these populations are considered significant because their height puts them above...

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UPDATED Mystery chick found on Nakodojima: a sixth breeding locality for the Short-tailed Albatross?https://acap.aq/latest-news/mystery-chick-found-on-nakodojima-a-sixth-breeding-locality-for-the-short-tailed-albatross

22 May 2014 The Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus breeds mainly on the Japanese island of Torishima (Izu Islands) and on Minami-kojima in the disputed Senkaku Islands. A single STAL pair has bred successfully several times on Eastern Island,...

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ACAP Breeding Site No. 68. Laysan Island and its albatrosses form part of USA’s Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monumenthttps://acap.aq/latest-news/acap-breeding-site-no-68-laysan-island-and-its-albatrosses-form-part-of-usa-s-papahanaumokuakea-marine-national-monument

06 April 2014 One of the USA’s Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NHWI) in the North Pacific, Laysan Island is a raised coral atoll with a central 70-ha hypersaline lake. Its area is about 4 km² (1.6 by 2.4 km); it is one of the largest islands in the NHWI chain. The...

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ACAP Breeding Site No. 65. Torishima, where Short-tailed Albatrosses have survived both feather collectors and an active volcanohttps://acap.aq/latest-news/acap-breeding-site-no-65-torishima-where-short-tailed-albatrosses-have-survived-both-feather-collectors-and-an-active-volcano

12 March 2014 Torishima (“bird island” in Japanese) is located in the southern tip of the Izu Island chain in the western Pacific, approximately 600 km to the south of Tokyo, Japan, to which country it belongs. It is a volcanic island approximately 2.5 km across...

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ACAP Breeding Site No. 63. Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, home of a Laysan Albatross populationhttps://acap.aq/latest-news/acap-breeding-site-no-63-kilauea-point-national-wildlife-refuge-home-of-a-laysan-albatross-population

16 February 2014 The Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge (KPNWR) was established on the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1985 to preserve its seabird breeding colonies. It was expanded in 1988 to include Crater Hill and Mokolea Point. The publically-accessible 82-ha...

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• Author: John Cooper
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