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title: "The Short-tailed Albatross pair on Midway Atoll fledges its third chick in four years"
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# The Short-tailed Albatross pair on Midway Atoll fledges its third chick in four years

The Short-tailed Albatross *Phoebastria albatrus* pair on Eastern Island, part of the USA’s [Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge](http://www.fws.gov/midway/) in the North Pacific, has fledged its third chick in four years since commencing egg-laying in the 2010/2011 breeding season.

 Other than the female-female pair on Kure Atoll that lay infertile eggs ([click here](http://www.acap.aq/index.php/en/news/news-archive/57-2012-news-archive/1130-now-we-just-need-a-male-two-female-short-tailed-albatrosses-lay-eggs-in-the-same-nest-on-kure-atoll-for-the-third-year-in-a-row)) the Midway birds are the only breeding Short-tails outside islands belonging to Japan (noting that ownership of one locality is disputed).

 ![](http://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/Short-tailed Albatross chick Midway 2014 Dan Clark.jpg)

 A Midway Short-tailed Albatross, photograph by Dan Clark 

 [Click here](http://www.acap.aq/index.php/en/component/search/?searchword=Midway%20Short-tailed&searchphrase=all&Itemid=211) to access earlier reports in *ACAP Latest News* on Midway’s now-famous Short-tailed Albatrosses.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 28 June 2014*