Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

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...
Tsunami death toll for Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses on Midway Atoll increases to over a hundred thousand birds

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...
SECOND UPDATE: Hawaii's Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses suffered heavy losses in last week's tsunami

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 Short-tailed Albatrosses of Midway: America's favourite chick survives a storm

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...
The Pacific Seabird Group's next Annual Meeting is to be held in Hawai'i in 2012

North Pacific albatrosses have been in the news of late, especially the Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus, with the first American chick doing well on Midway and the first translocated fledgling returning to Mukojima Island. The Pacific...
News from Midway: watch America's first ever Short-tailed Albatross chick get fed

Click here to view the latest pictures of the first Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus chick on USA soil: on Eastern Island, in the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, part of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the...
Short-tailed Albatross population on Torishima continues to grow

News is available on the size of the 2010/11 breeding population of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus on Japan's Torishima Island. In December 2010 Hiroshi Hasegawa of the Biology Department, Toho University counted 481 breeding...
First bird back! Good news from the Short-tailed Albatross Translocation Project on Japan's Mukojima Island

Two significant events have taken place on Japan's Mukojima Island in the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands this month where attempts are being made to start a new breeding colony of Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus by translocating chicks from...
A real American chick! The Midway Short-tailed Albatrosses hatch their egg

A real American chick! The Midway Short-tailed Albatrosses hatch their egg An important- and hopeful- milestone in the conservation of the threatened Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus was recorded four days ago on 14 January at Midway Atoll...
The Short-tailed Albatross nest fails on Kure Atoll, Hawaii

After close to two months of incubation by both members of a suspected female-female pair (click here), the Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus nest on Kure Atoll has failed. Between 23 and 25 December the immature-plumaged bird took over...

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More good news. Wisdom, Midway's 60-year-old Laysan Albatross survives the tsunami

Tsunami death toll for Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses on Midway Atoll increases to over a hundred thousand birds

SECOND UPDATE: Hawaii's Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses suffered heavy losses in last week's tsunami

The Short-tailed Albatrosses of Midway: America's favourite chick survives a storm

The Pacific Seabird Group's next Annual Meeting is to be held in Hawai'i in 2012

News from Midway: watch America's first ever Short-tailed Albatross chick get fed

Short-tailed Albatross population on Torishima continues to grow

First bird back! Good news from the Short-tailed Albatross Translocation Project on Japan's Mukojima Island

A real American chick! The Midway Short-tailed Albatrosses hatch their egg

The Short-tailed Albatross nest fails on Kure Atoll, Hawaii

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