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title: "Over a hundred Chatham Albatrosses have fledged from their translocation colony"
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# Over a hundred Chatham Albatrosses have fledged from their translocation colony

Mike Bell ([Chatham Islands Taiko Trust](http://www.taiko.org.nz/), Chatham Islands, New Zealand) has published in the annual journal [Sea Swallow](http://www.rnbws.org.uk/publications/) of the [Royal Naval Birdwatching Society](http://www.rnbws.org.uk/) on efforts to establish a new breeding colony of the [ACAP-listed](http://www.acap.aq/en/resources/acap-species2) and [Vulnerable](http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3963) Chatham Albatross *Thalassarche eremita*.

 A total of 110 chicks was moved from the [Pyramid](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1315-acap-breeding-sites-no-9-the-pyramid-chatham-islands-new-zealand), the species’ sole breeding site, to Point Gap on the main Chatham Island in 2014 and 2105.  All but six, affected by heat stress, have successfully fledged after hand feeding.  Plans exist to continue translocations for a further three breeding seasons.

 ![](http://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/C/Chatham_Albatross_by_Graham_Robertson.jpg) 

 Chatham Albatross pair, photograph by Graham Robertson 

 Access past news about the translocation exercise [here](http://www.acap.aq/en/search13?searchword=Chatham%20Albatross%20Point%20Gap&searchphrase=all).

 **Reference:**

 Bell, M. 2015.  Establishing a new colony of Chatham Island Albatross in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand.  *Sea Swallow* 64: 4-8.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 11 December 2015*