Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Female-female pairing in Laysan Albatrosses: a radio interview with Lindsay Young

Listen to a radio interview with ACAP News Correspondent, Lindsay Young of Pacific Rim Conservation on female-female pairing in Near Threatened Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis in Hawaii (click here). Laysan Albatrosses on Midway Atoll....
Wisdom, the sexaganerian Laysan Albatross and her mate are back incubating on Midway Atoll once more

Wisdom the famous Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis of Midway Atoll in the North Pacific laid her latest egg on 29 November 2013 - exactly a year and one day since she laid her egg in 2012. Wisdom is thought to be the oldest banded wild bird in...
Short-tailed Albatrosses return once more to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and to Kure Atoll

Two Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus have returned to the USA’s Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the North Pacific. On 27 October 2013 on Eastern Island an adult male was found resting close to the site where he and his mate have...
ACAP Breeding Site No. 37. Midway Atoll: Black-footed, Laysan and Short-tailed Albatrosses within a World Heritage Site

A satellite view of Midway Atoll showing its fringing reef and Sand (the larger) and Eastern Islands Photograph from WorldView-2, DigitalGlobe Midway Atoll is one the USA’s North-western Hawaiian Islands. Made a National Wildlife Refuge in 1988 it...
The Pacific Seabird Group’s 40th Annual Meeting has been hearing about albatrosses and petrels this week

The Pacific Seabird Group has been holding its 40th Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. this week. Abstracts of presented papers (both oral and poster) are available for reading on line. A list of those presentations that consider ACAP-listed or...
A streak of a year: highlights of albatross and petrel conservation in 2012 revisited

A personal challenge in 2012 has been to post a daily news item to ACAP Latest News. This story is the 365th of the year so the self-imposed daily streak* has been achieved. Now is a good time then to look back at the highlights of a years' worth of...
The translocated Short-tailed Albatrosses on Mukojima have produced their first egg!

The site where Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus chicks have been translocated to Japan's Mukojima Island over the last five years is kept under watch by a satellite-linked remote camera operated by NHK, a Japanese broadcasting company. The...
Now we just need a male. Two female Short-tailed Albatrosses lay eggs in the same nest on Kure Atoll for the third year in a row

There have been four Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus observed on Kure Atoll in the North Western Hawaiian Islands since the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) held its first winter field camp on the island...
Midway Atoll's second Short-tailed Albatross chick fledges

The pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus that have been breeding on East Island, part of the USA's Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the North West Hawaiian Islands, for the second year in succession have now successfully...
Hawaiian Birds of the Sea Nā Manu Kai by Robert Shallenberger: a review

The USA's Hawaiian Islands in the North Pacific support breeding populations of three ACAP-listed seabirds, all albatrosses of the genus Phoebastria. Two of these species, the Black-footed P. nigripes and the Laysan P. immutabilis, have by far the...

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Female-female pairing in Laysan Albatrosses: a radio interview with Lindsay Young

Wisdom, the sexaganerian Laysan Albatross and her mate are back incubating on Midway Atoll once more

Short-tailed Albatrosses return once more to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and to Kure Atoll

ACAP Breeding Site No. 37. Midway Atoll: Black-footed, Laysan and Short-tailed Albatrosses within a World Heritage Site

The Pacific Seabird Group’s 40th Annual Meeting has been hearing about albatrosses and petrels this week

A streak of a year: highlights of albatross and petrel conservation in 2012 revisited

The translocated Short-tailed Albatrosses on Mukojima have produced their first egg!

Now we just need a male. Two female Short-tailed Albatrosses lay eggs in the same nest on Kure Atoll for the third year in a row

Midway Atoll's second Short-tailed Albatross chick fledges

Hawaiian Birds of the Sea Nā Manu Kai by Robert Shallenberger: a review

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