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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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All change at Midway's Short-tailed Albatross nest: the female returns to incubate
The following report comes from John Klavitter, Acting Reserve Manager, Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. "In the morning of December 1, 2010, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) volunteers checked the...