Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

UPDATED. Who’s a big boy then? Midway Atoll’s latest Short-tailed Albatross chick gets its bands - and fledges a month later

USFWS Bio-technician Laura Brazier and Supervisory Biologist Jon Plissner band Midway’s latest Short-tailed Albatross chick on 16 April 2023, photograph by USFWS Volunteer Andrew Sullivan-Haskins “Wow! What a big chunky fuzzball” – Hob Osterlund,...
Start of a new colony? The Short-tailed Albatrosses of Midway Atoll are up to five this season

Geraldine with her 2023 chick, photograph by Caren Loebel-Fried George and Geraldine, the sole pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus breeding on Midway Atoll, have hatched their latest egg that was laid back in October last...
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...
Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine are back incubating on Midway, and they have some new friends!

George incubating this month, photograph by Jon Plissner/USFWS Geraldine, the Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus was seen back on Midway Atoll’s Sand Island on 20-21 October and since then her mate George has been incubating. A...
Updates on the conservation of albatrosses in the Hawaiian islands

The 2019 fledgling Short-tailed Albatross (right) returns to Midway Atoll. Its parents are on the left; photograph by Jon Plissner Note: ACAP Latest News aims to post on recent developments and findings in procellariiform science and conservation...
No chick for Midway’s sole Short-tailed Albatross pair this season

George and Geraldine (left) will not rear a chick in 2022; photograph by Jon Plissner, 20 January 2022 ACAP Latest News has been following the fortunes of George and Geraldine, the Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus pair on the...
Featuring ACAP-listed species and their photographers: the Black-footed Albatross by Beth Flint

The Black-footed Albatross was the first new species I saw when I started my life-long love of the wildlife of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands NOTE: This post continues an occasional series that features photographs of the 31 ACAP listed species,...
Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine are incubating again on Midway Atoll

George and Geraldine in October 2021 The globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus pair is back for another breeding season on the USA's Midway Atoll – the sole pair that currently breeds on the North Western Hawaiian island....
Well done George and Geraldine! Midway Atoll’s sole Short-tailed Albatross chick is soon to fledge

The 2021 Short-tailed 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...
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...

Results 11 - 20 of 94

UPDATED. Who’s a big boy then? Midway Atoll’s latest Short-tailed Albatross chick gets its bands - and fledges a month later

Start of a new colony? The Short-tailed Albatrosses of Midway Atoll are up to five this season

Hands-on management works. Black-footed and Laysan Albatross news from Hawaii

Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine are back incubating on Midway, and they have some new friends!

Updates on the conservation of albatrosses in the Hawaiian islands

No chick for Midway’s sole Short-tailed Albatross pair this season

Featuring ACAP-listed species and their photographers: the Black-footed Albatross by Beth Flint

Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine are incubating again on Midway Atoll

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

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