41 thousand nests. The albatrosses of Kure Atoll get counted for the 2025/26 breeding seasonhttps://acap.aq/latest-news/41-thousand-nests-the-albatrosses-of-kure-atoll-get-counted-for-the-2025-26-breeding-season

31 December 2025 A Black-footed Albatross pair on Kure Atoll, November 2025 The annual albatross nest count on Kure Atoll (Hōlanikū) in the Northwestern Pacific Islands for the 2025/26 breeding season has been completed, yielding a total of over 41 thousand occupied...

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“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”. Short-tailed Albatrosses visit Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islandshttps://acap.aq/latest-news/raindrops-keep-fallin-on-my-head-short-tailed-albatrosses-visit-kure-atoll-in-the-northwestern-hawaiian-islands

27 December 2024 An adult Short-tailed Albatross “rain nibbles” on Kure Atoll, 21 December 2024, photograph by Isabelle Beaudoin Midway Atoll is not the only USA island in the North Pacific Ocean that might in time harbour a colony of Vulnerable Short-Albatrosses...

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Six Short-tailed Albatross decoys are on their way back to Kure Atoll, but a real one has already shown uphttps://acap.aq/latest-news/short-tailed-albatross-decoys-get-ready-to-be-shipped-out-to-kure-atoll-but-a-real-one-has-already-shown-up

10 May 2024 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...

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Start of a new colony? The Short-tailed Albatrosses of Midway Atoll are up to five this seasonhttps://acap.aq/latest-news/start-of-a-new-colony-the-short-tailed-albatrosses-of-midway-atoll

26 January 2023 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...

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George and Geraldine, Short-tailed Albatrosses on Midway, hatch their latest egghttps://acap.aq/latest-news/george-and-geraldine-short-tailed-albatrosses-on-midway-hatch-their-latest-egg

26 January 2021 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...

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Short-tailed Albatrosshttps://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/images-and-artwork/artists-biologists-unite-for-nature-and-acap-collaborate-over-world-albatross-day-2020/short-tailed-albatross

11 July 2020 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...

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Hawaii’s Kure Atoll advertises World Albatross Day with a ‘virtual banner’https://acap.aq/latest-news/hawaii-s-kure-atoll-advertises-world-albatross-day-with-a-virtual-banner

01 June 2020 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...

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The Kure Atoll Conservancy supports the inauguration of World Albatross Day on 19 Junehttps://acap.aq/latest-news/the-kure-atoll-conservancy-supports-the-inauguration-of-world-albatross-day-on-19-june

28 April 2020 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...

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Single Short-tailed Albatross pairs return to Midway and Kure Atolls in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islandshttps://acap.aq/latest-news/single-short-tailed-albatross-pairs-return-to-kure-and-midway-atolls-in-the-northwestern-hawaiian-islands

22 November 2018 “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...

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Oh for a male! Kure Atoll’s female-female pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses is back incubating for another seasonhttps://acap.aq/latest-news/oh-for-a-male-kure-atoll-s-female-female-pair-of-short-tailed-albatrosses-is-back-incubating-for-a-sixth-consecutive-season

03 December 2015 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...

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