Tomohiro Deguchi (Division of Avian Conservation, Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, Japan) and colleagues writing on-line in the journal Bird Conservation International describe the techniques they have developed to translocate three species of...
Following its successful breeding last season on Eastern Island, Midway Atoll the Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus pair is back this month, with the male currently incubating. Visit "Pete at Midway"·to see a photo of the male on its egg...
The rarest of the three North Pacific albatross species, the Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus has until last year only been documented breeding successfully on islands off Japan, despite increasing sightings of individuals amongst other...
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On Friday 24 June the World Heritage Committee meeting in its 35th Session in Paris, France inscribed the Ogasawara Islands, Japanese islands situated some 1000 km south of the country's main archipelago, on UNESCO's World Heritage List for the wealth...
"On June 11, the bird was seen wandering from its nest area to the shoreline as the instinct to fly and paddle out to sea became stronger. It continued to walk and flap near the shoreline, as well as paddle in the near-shore waters to strengthen its...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on 21 March that "Wisdom" the 60-year-old Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, has returned to feed its chick on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, thus surviving the tsunami that has killed so many...
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service officials have now revised markedly upwards their earlier estimates (click here) of wildlife losses at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Papahânaumokuâkea Marine National Monument, following the tsunami that washed...
LATEST INFORMATION AND PHOTOGRAPHS **16 March: For more information and photographs on the effects of the tsunami on the albatrosses of Midway Atoll click here and visit Pete Leary's blog Pete at Midway. **18 March: Visit...
The following dramatic story of survival of the USA's first-ever Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus chick comes from John Klavitter, writing from the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, part of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument...
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