Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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...
Short-tailed Albatross to get a new five-year status review

available since the last review of the species in 2014 (click here). A Short-tailed Albatross pair - named George and Geraldine - on Midway Atoll “In conducting these reviews, we consider the best scientific and commercial data that have become...
UPDATED. George and Geraldine are back! Midway’s Short-tailed Albatross pair return for a new breeding season

Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus were seen back on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific. The pair, named George and Geraldine, bred on Midway’s Sand Island for the first time in the previous (2018/19) season. “George, the male of the pair, a bird in adult...
Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine fledge the first documented chick from Midway Atoll’s Sand Island

“George” and “Geraldine”, a pair of globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus, that have been attempting to breed on Sand Island in the USA’s Midway Atoll are thought to have fledged their first chick this year – and the first...
UPDATED. George and Geraldine, Midway’s Short-tailed Albatrosses, have hatched their first egg

“George” and “Geraldine”, a pair of globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus, returned to Sand Island in the USA’s Midway Atoll in the north Pacific in October last year (click here). Since then the pair laid an egg which...
Single Short-tailed Albatross pairs return to Midway and Kure Atolls in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

“George” and “Geraldine”, a pair of globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus, returned to Sand Island in the USA’s Midway Atoll in the north Pacific on October 24 and October 25 this year, respectively, thereafter reported as...

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

Short-tailed Albatross to get a new five-year status review

UPDATED. George and Geraldine are back! Midway’s Short-tailed Albatross pair return for a new breeding season

Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine fledge the first documented chick from Midway Atoll’s Sand Island

UPDATED. George and Geraldine, Midway’s Short-tailed Albatrosses, have hatched their first egg

Single Short-tailed Albatross pairs return to Midway and Kure Atolls in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

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

Short-tailed Albatross to get a new five-year status review

UPDATED. George and Geraldine are back! Midway’s Short-tailed Albatross pair return for a new breeding season

Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine fledge the first documented chick from Midway Atoll’s Sand Island

UPDATED. George and Geraldine, Midway’s Short-tailed Albatrosses, have hatched their first egg

Single Short-tailed Albatross pairs return to Midway and Kure Atolls in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels