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Is the Short-tailed Albatross made up of two cryptic species? New genetic information from Torishima
Locations of Short-tailed Albatross breeding sites from the publication. Note the Senkaku/Diaoyu/Tiaoyutai Islands are disputed territory Masaki Eda (The Hokkaido University Museum, Sapporo, Japan) and colleagues have published open access in the...
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THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. 22 or 25, how many albatross species are out there?
Southern Buller's Albatross, Snares Islands, April 2007, photograph by Paul Sagar The Albatross and Petrel Agreement recognizes 22 species of albatrosses, all of which it lists under its Annex 1. Distinct breeding populations of two of these species...
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Neotype designated for the Short-tailed Albatross is from the Senkaku Islands
Neotype of Phoebastria albatrus, dorsal view; from the publication Takeshi Yamasaki (Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, Japan) and colleagues have published open access in the journal Zootaxa on designating a neotype for the Short-tailed Albatross...
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Featuring ACAP-listed species and their photographers: the Short-tailed Albatross by Naoki Tomita
Age-related variation in the plumage of Short-tailed Albatrosses NOTE: This post continues an occasional series that features photographs of the 31 ACAP-listed species, along with information from and about their photographers. Here, Naoki Tomita...
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Are Short-tailed Albatrosses two cryptic species? New evidence
"The left pair is the Torishima-type Short-tailed Albatross, while the two on the right are the Senkaku-type Short-tailed Albatross. This is the first case of cryptic species found in an endangered bird species" - from the Endangered Species Research...
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ACAP Breeding Site No. 93. Mukojima, Ogasawara Islands: a Short-tailed Albatross translocation site
Short-tailed Albatrosses gather around a chick on Mukojima Mukojima (commonly known as Keta Island) is located in the northernmost part of the Japanese Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands south of Japan and about 60 km north of the inhabited island of...
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Torishima, volcanic home of the Short-tailed Albatross, marks World Albatross Day with a banner
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...
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Japan takes a World Albatross Day banner to the Short-tailed Albatross translocation site on Mukojima
Taiki Terajima (left) and Teru Yuta pose with their ‘WAD2020’ banner behind a Black-footed Albatross chick on Mukojima Teru Yuta, a Researcher in the Division of Avian Conservation of Japan’s Yamashina Institute for Ornithology leads on the...
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Old bones tell us about the past distribution of Short-tailed Albatrosses
Natasha Vokhshoori (Ocean Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California , USA) and colleagues have published open access in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Serieson an analysis of bones of (the now globally Vulnerable)...
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Some go home, some stay: successes in establishing a new Short-tailed Albatross colony by translocating chicks
Tomohiro Deguchi (Division of Avian Conservation, Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, Abiko, Japan) and colleagues have published in the journal Animal Conservation on the results of a translocation exercise with Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria...
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