SECOND UPDATE: Hawaii's Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses suffered heavy losses in last week's tsunamihttps://acap.aq/news/news-archive/2011-news-archive/stop-press-hawaiis-laysan-and-black-footed-albatrosses-have-likely-suffered-heavy-losses-in-last-weeks-tsunami

13 March 2011 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 stormhttps://acap.aq/news/news-archive/2011-news-archive/the-short-tailed-albatrosses-of-midway-americas-favourite-chick-survives-a-storm

27 February 2011 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 2012https://acap.aq/news/news-archive/2011-news-archive/the-pacific-seabird-groups-next-annual-meeting-is-to-be-held-in-hawaii-in-2012

19 February 2011 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 fedhttps://acap.aq/news/news-archive/2011-news-archive/news-from-midway-watch-americas-first-ever-short-tailed-albatross-chick-get-fed

16 February 2011 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 growhttps://acap.aq/news/news-archive/2011-news-archive/short-tailed-albatross-population-on-torishima-continues-to-grow

12 February 2011 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 Islandhttps://acap.aq/news/news-archive/2011-news-archive/first-bird-back-good-news-from-the-short-tailed-albatross-translocation-project-on-japans-mukojima-island

11 February 2011 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 egghttps://acap.aq/news/news-archive/2011-news-archive/a-real-american-chick-the-midway-short-tailed-albatrosses-hatch-their-egg

18 January 2011 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, Hawaiihttps://acap.aq/news/news-archive/2011-news-archive/the-short-tailed-albatross-nest-fails-on-kure-atoll-hawaii

07 January 2011 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 incubatehttps://acap.aq/news/news-archive/2010-news-archive/all-change-at-midways-short-refuge-managertailed-albatross-nest-the-female-returns-to-incubate

07 December 2010 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...

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Another ACAP exclusive, and another Short-tailed Albatross nest in Hawaiihttps://acap.aq/news/news-archive/2010-news-archive/another-acap-exclusive-and-another-short-tailed-albatross-nest-in-hawaii

02 December 2010 It appears that Hawaii is becoming a hot destination for Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus in 2010. Despite numerous sightings of this species in the Hawaiian Archipelago over the last several decades, there are no records (either...

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