The Pacific Seabird Group held its 46th Annual Meeting on the Hawaiian island of Kauai from 27 February to 3 March 2019. A list by senior author and title follows of presentations made at the meeting that considered ACAP-listed species and also seabird...
“George” and “Geraldine”, a pair of globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus, returned to Sand Island in the USA’s Midway Atoll in the north Pacific in October last year (click here). Since then the pair laid an egg which...
“George” and “Geraldine”, a pair of globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus, returned to Sand Island in the USA’s Midway Atoll in the north Pacific on October 24 and October 25 this year, respectively, thereafter reported as...
A pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus has been photographed on Sand Island, part of the Midway National Wildlife Refuge (click here) . Sand Island's Short-tailed Albatross pair, photograph by Wieteke Holthuijzen Previously,...
The 6th International Albatross and Petrel Conference (IAPC6) was held in Barcelona Catalonia, Spain, from 19-23 September 2016 in the historic Paranimf (Paranymph) of the University of Barcelona. About 150 researchers from all over the World,...
The Pacific Seabird Group held its 43rd Annual Meeting at Turtle Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, USA last week. The meeting’s abstract book reveals that a number of presentations dealt with ACAP-listed species - listed below by authors and titles. Subjects covered...
A review of the conservation status of the globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus is required every five years by section 4(c)(2) of the United States’ Endangered Species Act (ESA), under which the species is currently...
The Pacific Seabird Group will be holding its 42nd Annual Meeting next week in San Jose, California, USA, with the theme “A Future for Seabirds”. According to the meeting’s abstract book 10 presentations will be given on the three species of...
A single pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus has bred successfully in three of the four seasons since 2010/11 on the USA’s Midway Atoll, one of the North-Western Hawaiian Islands, as regularly reported in ACAP Latest News...
Wisdom, the World’s oldest-known Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, now considered to be at least 64 years old and first banded as an adult in 1956, was sighted preening her mate (band number G000) on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge on 22...