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News from the North Pacific: Laysan Albatrosses in pick-up trucks and on golf courses and a third Short-tailed Albatross visits the female-female pair on Kure Atoll
Not all the information on albatrosses and petrels that comes ACAP's way is perhaps worthy of its own story in ACAP Latest News. So from time to time I will run intriguing items of news together into a single story. Today's comes from the North Pacific...
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Albatross and fisheries mortality papers to be presented at the Pacific Seabird Group meeting next month in Hawaii
The 38th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group will be held in Turtle Bay, Haleiwa,Oahu, Hawaii, USA over 7-10 February 2012. The programme and abstracts for the meeting are now available on-line. Listed here by title and authors are those papers...
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UPDATED: Hope (and Wonder)! A second Short-tailed Albatross chick for Midway Atoll
For the second time ever, a Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus chick has hatched out away from a Japanese breeding colony. Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge welcomed its new chick on the morning of 12 January, the day after a visit to the...
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Translocation and hand-rearing techniques for threatened albatrosses
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...
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UPDATED: Midway Atoll's Short-tailed Albatross pair has an egg for the second year
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...
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Two Short-tailed Albatrosses start breeding on Kure Atoll, Hawaii for the second year, but once more both are females
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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**UPDATE** Pacific Seabird Group Conference in Hawaii in February 2012 calls for abstracts
"We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation on seabird biology, foraging ecology, energetics, physiology, population biology, systematics, genetics, conservation biology, fishery interactions, restoration ecology, or any...
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UPDATED 26 June: World Heritage Convention inscribes Japan's Ogasawara Islands, good news for Short-tailed Albatrosses
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...
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** UPDATED 22 June ** The USA's first-ever Short-tailed Albatross chick fledges successfully from Midway
"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...
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More good news. Wisdom, Midway's 60-year-old Laysan Albatross survives the tsunami
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...