Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Six Short-tailed Albatross decoys are on their way back to Kure Atoll, but a real one has already shown up

Big birdie! Held by supporters, this freshly painted Short-tailed Albatross decoy (along with five more) is on its way back to Kure Atoll this month, photograph from the Facebook page of Hawaiian artist, Patrick Ching Hawaiian artist, Patrick Ching who...
Start of a new colony? The Short-tailed Albatrosses of Midway Atoll are up to five this season

Geraldine with her 2023 chick, photograph by Caren Loebel-Fried George and Geraldine, the sole pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus breeding on Midway Atoll, have hatched their latest egg that was laid back in October last...
George and Geraldine, Short-tailed Albatrosses on Midway, hatch their latest egg

The 2021 chick is revealed by George, photograph by Jon Brack, Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, January 2021 and watch the video clip George and Geraldine make up the sole pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Diomedea albatrus...
Short-tailed Albatross

Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus - globally Vulnerable Female-female pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses on Kure Atoll by Apple Resonance, from a photograph by Cynthia Vanderlip Short-tailed Albatross by Georgia Feild Female-female pair of...
Hawaii’s Kure Atoll advertises World Albatross Day with a ‘virtual banner’

Photograph and design of a 'virtual' WAD2020 banner, by Andrew Sullivan-Haskins Andrew Sullivan-Haskins is the Field Leader for the Kure Atoll Wildlife Sanctuary within the State of Hawaii’s Division of Forestry and Wildlife, Department of Land and...
The Kure Atoll Conservancy supports the inauguration of World Albatross Day on 19 June

The Kure Atoll Conservancy is a non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting management programmes that enhance biological diversity, ecosystem health and cultural resources of the Kure Atoll Seabird Sanctuary in the USA’s North-Western Hawaiian...
Single Short-tailed Albatross pairs return to Midway and Kure Atolls in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

“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...
Oh for a male! Kure Atoll’s female-female pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses is back incubating for another season

For every season since 2010 the female-female pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus has returned to the USA’s Kure Atoll in the North-Western Hawaiian Islands to lay eggs (click here). Both birds were banded as chicks so their current...
More Short-tailed Albatross sightings on the USA’s Kure Atoll

On 24 December last year the Hawaiian Department Land and Natural Resources (DNLR) field crew on Kure Atoll in the USA’s North-western Hawaiian Islands photographed an immature Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus (foreground in photograph...
Results of the most recent albatross counts on Kure Atoll

The Kure Atoll Conservancy has reported on the completion of the most recent counts of breeding albatrosses on Kure Atoll, one of the USA’s North-Western Hawaiian Islands. Whole-island counts of occupied nests have revealed totals of 38 307 Laysan...

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Six Short-tailed Albatross decoys are on their way back to Kure Atoll, but a real one has already shown up

Start of a new colony? The Short-tailed Albatrosses of Midway Atoll are up to five this season

George and Geraldine, Short-tailed Albatrosses on Midway, hatch their latest egg

Short-tailed Albatross

Hawaii’s Kure Atoll advertises World Albatross Day with a ‘virtual banner’

The Kure Atoll Conservancy supports the inauguration of World Albatross Day on 19 June

Single Short-tailed Albatross pairs return to Midway and Kure Atolls in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

Oh for a male! Kure Atoll’s female-female pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses is back incubating for another season

More Short-tailed Albatross sightings on the USA’s Kure Atoll

Results of the most recent albatross counts on Kure Atoll

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