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Short-tailed Albatross to get a new five-year status review
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is initiating a five-year status review of the globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus in terms of the US Endangered Species Act (ESA). A five-year status review is based on...
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UPDATED. George and Geraldine are back! Midway’s Short-tailed Albatross pair return for a new breeding season
UPDATE: As of 13 November, Midway's Short-tailed Albatross pair is incubating a new egg. ********************************************* On 23 October this year two globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus were seen back on...
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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...
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Presentations on ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels and on seabird bycatch at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 46th Annual Meeting
The Pacific Seabird Group held its 46th Annual Meeting on the Hawaiian island of Kauai from 27 February to 3 March 2019. A list by senior author and title follows of presentations made at the meeting that considered ACAP-listed species and also seabird...
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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...
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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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Hoping for an egg: Short-tailed Albatrosses are back on Midway
A pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus has been photographed on Sand Island, part of the Midway National Wildlife Refuge (click here) . Sand Island's Short-tailed Albatross pair, photograph by Wieteke Holthuijzen Previously,...
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The Sixth Albatross and Petrel Conference went off well in Spain last month. Whither IAPC7?
The 6th International Albatross and Petrel Conference (IAPC6) was held in Barcelona Catalonia, Spain, from 19-23 September 2016 in the historic Paranimf (Paranymph) of the University of Barcelona. About 150 researchers from all over the World,...
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Presentations on albatrosses and petrels at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 2016 meeting
The Pacific Seabird Group held its 43rd Annual Meeting at Turtle Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, USA last week. The meeting’s abstract book reveals that a number of presentations dealt with ACAP-listed species - listed below by authors and titles. Subjects covered...
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The USA’s latest review of the Short-tailed Albatross makes no change to its domestic conservation status
A review of the conservation status of the globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus is required every five years by section 4(c)(2) of the United States’ Endangered Species Act (ESA), under which the species is currently...