The second week in December marks the time when the annual "albatross egg swap" occurs on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, an innovative programme designed to discourage Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis from breeding on military airplane runways...
The majority of the World's albatrosses breeds on uninhabited islands that are mostly free from land-based predators. However, on the main Hawaiian Islands in the North Pacific there are several small colonies of Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria...
Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis on the Hawaiian island of Kauai breed in some unusual places: within a military missile range, adjacent to a lighthouse, on golf courses and in suburban gardens. At all localities save within the Kilauea Point...
A small colony of Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis has adopted residential and golf course areas for their nesting sites on the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. Located in the Princeville community on the north shore, approximately 40...
Predator-proof fences are increasingly being used to keep pests out of area of natural habitats that support threatened species, despite some controversy over their cost-effectiveness. Most fences are erected on the mainland or on inhabited islands...
The predator-proof fence at Kaena Point on the Hawaiian island of Oahu that was erected in 2011 has already proven a success with improved breeding within it by both ACAP-listed Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters...
A while back, ACAP Latest News reported on plans to build a second predator-proof fence on the Hawaiian island of Kauai as part of the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge ( click here ). The fence (728 m long to enclose a three-hectare area) aims to...
The Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge (KPNWR) was established on the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1985 to preserve its seabird breeding colonies. It was expanded in 1988 to include Crater Hill and Mokolea Point. The publically-accessible 82-ha...
The Wedge-tailed Shearwater Puffinus pacificus is the only seabird currently known to breed within the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Reproductive success is unknown but predation is reported as a limiting...
The Kaua‘i National Wildlife Refuge Complex on the USA’s Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i is comprised of the Hanalei, Hulē‘ia and Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuges. This month as part of the USA’s National Wildlife Refuge Week the refuge complex is...
Kauai, one of the USA’s inhabited Hawaiian Islands in the North Pacific, supports several populations of Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis . Although small, these populations are considered significant because their height puts them above...
Kaloakulua must now be pretty famous. The offspring of Kaluahine and Kaluakane, a pair of Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis on the north-east shore of the USA’s Kauai Island, its growth from hatching to fledging was livestreamed for 148 days...
Twenty-two Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis chicks have disappeared over the past three weeks from a wildlife refuge on the USA’s island of Kauai, with feral Domestic Cats Felis catus being suspected as the culprits (click here and here ). A...
The Hawaiian Department of Land and Natural Resources ( DNLR ) has reminded coastal residents on the island of Kauai to keep their domestic cats indoors and dogs leashed or fenced in from now until July next year in regions where Laysan Albatrosses...
Megan Dalton, a biologist with the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation , writes in the latest issue of Gooney Gazette II , the newsletter of the Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Reserve ( FOMA ), on plans to establish a colony of globally Near...
UPDATE: The stray dog, a "mixed-breed hound" was later euthanized ( click here ). A stray dog has killed 33 Wedge-tailed Shearwaters Ardenna pacifica in a colony at the Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands ( PMRF ) on the Hawaiian island of...
On 22 June 2012 domestic dogs entered a Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis colony on private but unfenced land in Moloa'a on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, killing eight chicks and injuring five more a few days before they were expected to fledge...
On the Hawaiian island of Kauai there are two remarkable “albatross facts”. Firstly, much of the island’s globally Near Threatened Laysan Albatross or Mōlī Phoebastria immutabilis population breeds right among the island’s human population, making...
On 22 June 2012 several dogs ran through two of the larger privately-owned Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis colonies on the Hawaiian island of Kauai and killed eight chicks and injured five more a few days before they were ready to fledge. The...
On the Hawaiian island of Kauai the Save Our Shearwaters ( SOS ) team of the Kauai Humane Society has been supplementary feeding globally Near Threatened Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis chicks that are known or are thought to have lost a...
