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The Laysan Albatrosses of Kauai have had a good breeding year
A Laysan Albatross chick gets close to fledging, photograph by Hob Osterlund The Laysan Albatrosses or Mōlī Phoebastria immutabilis have just come off a good breeding year on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, a distinct improvement over the previous...
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Translocation of Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels establishes a breeding colony free of introduced predators on Kauai
Newell’s Shearwater, photograph by Lindsay Young Lindsay Young (Pacific Rim Conservation, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) and colleagues have published open access in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science on creating a safe breeding space for two of...
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Hands-on management works. Black-footed and Laysan Albatross news from Hawaii
This Laysan Albatross pair seems safe from climate change 500 m above the sea in the Kuaokala Game Management Area on Oahu, photograph from Pacific Rim Conservation For some years, ACAP Latest News has regularly reported on conservation management...
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Do fence me in. Translocating threatened Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels
Newell's Shearwater, photograph by Lindsay Young Lindsay Young (Pacific Rim Conservation, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) and colleagues have published on hand rearing translocated chicks of the Critically Endangered Newell’s Shearwater Puffinus newelli and...
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From mountain to coast: the last year of Hawaiian Petrel translocations takes place on Kauai
A Hawaiian Petrel chick is placed in a carrying box ready for its helicoper flight down the mountain, photograph by Jennifer Rothe, Kaua'i Endangered Seabird Recovery Project Following “a hike, a quick helicopter ride and a road trip” and despite some...
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Hawaii’s Molokai Land Trust works to create a new Laysan Albatross colony – and offers its support for World Albatross Day
Molokai (260 km²) is the fifth largest of the “high” eastern islands in the Hawaiian Archipelago, along with the larger and more well-known islands of Hawaii, Kauai, Maui and Oahu. The Molokai Land Trust has as its mission “ to protect and restore the...
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ACAP Breeding Sites
Introduction In February 2013, ACAP Latest News commenced posting a series of brief accounts describing breeding sites of ACAP-listed species. In considering what constitutes a breeding site, differences in conservation management procedures have been...
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Hands-on conservation: translocating Hawaiian Petrels and Newell’s Shearwater chicks with the Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project
Lindsay Young (Pacific Rim Conservation, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA) and colleagues have published a technical report that describes the details of a project that has been translocating globally threatened Newell’s Shearwater Puffinus newelli and...
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UPDATED Translocation of Endangered Newell's Shearwaters on Kauai: third year underway
Kauai Endangered Seabird Recovery Project (KESRP) teams were flown by Airborne Aviation helicopter into the mountains of the Hawaiian island of Kauai on two separate days earlier this month to collect globally Endangered Newell's Shearwater Puffinus...
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Laysan Albatrosses commence breeding in Hawaii’s James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge
The James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Oahu has its first breeding pair of globally Near Threatened Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis. After three years of social attraction with decoys and a call-broadcasting...
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