Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Well done George and Geraldine! Midway Atoll’s sole Short-tailed Albatross chick is soon to fledge

Albatross chick approaches fledging, photograph from the Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge George and Geraldine make up the sole pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Diomedea albatrus that breed on Midway Atoll’s Sand Island. They...
Midway’s latest Short-tailed Albatross chick gets banded

The Short-tailed Albatross chick gets its bands from Jon Plissner and Chris Forster George and Geraldine make up the sole pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Diomedea albatrus that breed on Midway Atoll’s Sand Island. They commenced breeding on...
George and Geraldine, Short-tailed Albatrosses on Midway, hatch their latest egg

by Jon Brack, Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, January 2021 and watch the video clip George and Geraldine make up the sole pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Diomedea albatrus on Midway Atoll’s Sand Island. They commenced...
Online albatross jigsaw puzzles for armchair marine ornithologists

(although not all are captioned to species). Four examples selected here are of the Short-tailed Albatrosses, George and Geraldine on the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, a Grey-headed Albatross on Islas Diego Ramírez, a multitude of plastic...
UPDATE: Incubation underway. Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine return to Midway Atoll

UPDATE: BREEDING UNDERWAY Geraldine incubates her 2020 egg, photograph by J. Plissner/USFWS "The game camera images show that the female laid the egg on the evening/night of October 28. She remained at the nest with the male often present until the...
SECOND UPDATE. Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine's second chick fledges

left its nest, crossed the island on foot and was filmed on the beach and photographed in the water. Looks like George and Geraldine's second chick will fledge successfully. Go the to the Friends Of Midway Atoll NWR Facebook page for more photos and...
The conservation team on Midway Atoll helps advertise World Albatross Day

a watchful eyeover: 69-year old Laysan Albatross Wisdom and her mate Akeamakai (currently on a ‘gap year’) and George and Geraldine, the only Short-tailed Albatross pair that breeds successfully outside Japan - whose current chick, their second, is...
The latest chick of Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine on Midway Atoll is growing apace

George came to feed its youngster, and spent more time with it". Photograph by J. Plissner The latest chick of George and Geraldine on Midway Atoll is growing apace. The latest news from the Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (FOMA) is...
UPDATE: Midway’s Short-tailed Albatrosses, George and Geraldine, hatch their latest egg

chicks — are still in hatching mode. The remote camera revealed that the chick is being fed by both George and Geraldine as they swapped their parental feeding and care taking duties three times during the last two weeks". News from the Friends of...
UPDATE. Wisdom the Laysan Albatross, and the world’s oldest known bird, is back on Midway Atoll

Read more here and access the many postings about Wisdom in ACAP Latest News. Meanwhile, Midway’s other two famous birds, Geraldine and George the atoll’s only pair of breeding Short-tailed Albatrosses P. albatrus, are already back for a new season and...

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Well done George and Geraldine! Midway Atoll’s sole Short-tailed Albatross chick is soon to fledge

Midway’s latest Short-tailed Albatross chick gets banded

George and Geraldine, Short-tailed Albatrosses on Midway, hatch their latest egg

Online albatross jigsaw puzzles for armchair marine ornithologists

UPDATE: Incubation underway. Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine return to Midway Atoll

SECOND UPDATE. Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine's second chick fledges

The conservation team on Midway Atoll helps advertise World Albatross Day

The latest chick of Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine on Midway Atoll is growing apace

UPDATE: Midway’s Short-tailed Albatrosses, George and Geraldine, hatch their latest egg

UPDATE. Wisdom the Laysan Albatross, and the world’s oldest known bird, is back on Midway Atoll

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels