A satellite view of Midway Atoll showing its fringing reef and Sand (the larger) and Eastern Islands Photograph from WorldView-2, DigitalGlobe Midway Atoll is one the USA’s North-western Hawaiian Islands. Made a National Wildlife Refuge in 1988 it...
The Pacific Seabird Group has been holding its 40th Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. this week. Abstracts of presented papers (both oral and poster) are available for reading on line. A list of those presentations that consider ACAP-listed or...
A personal challenge in 2012 has been to post a daily news item to ACAP Latest News. This story is the 365th of the year so the self-imposed daily streak* has been achieved. Now is a good time then to look back at the highlights of a years' worth of...
The site where Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus chicks have been translocated to Japan's Mukojima Island over the last five years is kept under watch by a satellite-linked remote camera operated by NHK, a Japanese broadcasting company. The...
There have been four Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus observed on Kure Atoll in the North Western Hawaiian Islands since the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) held its first winter field camp on the island...
The pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus that have been breeding on East Island, part of the USA's Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the North West Hawaiian Islands, for the second year in succession have now successfully...
The USA's Hawaiian Islands in the North Pacific support breeding populations of three ACAP-listed seabirds, all albatrosses of the genus Phoebastria. Two of these species, the Black-footed P. nigripes and the Laysan P. immutabilis, have by far the...
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...
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...
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...