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title: "Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine have fledged their fifth chick on Midway Atoll"
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# Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine have fledged their fifth chick on Midway Atoll

*![Midway STAL chick 28 April Narongkorn Thatsanangkun](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD2024/Midway_STAL_chick_28_April_Narongkorn_Thatsanangkun.jpg)  
A Short-tailed Albatross chick on Midway Atoll, photograph by Narongkorn Thatsanangkun*

 George and Geraldine, the well-known pair of [Vulnerable](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/short-tailed-albatross-phoebastria-albatrus) Short-tailed Albatrosses *Phoebastria albatrus* on [Midway Atoll](https://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/2013-news-archive/acap-breeding-site-no-36-midway-atoll-black-footed-laysan-and-short-tailed-albatrosses-within-a-world-heritage-site)’s Sand Island fledged their latest chick around late May this year – it was last seen when it was [videoed](https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofMidwayNWR/videos/1192647991903829/), on 23 May.

 The chick was given its [metal and colour bands](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/keeping-it-in-the-family-george-and-geraldines-latest-chick-gets-its-bands-while-older-sibling-short-tailed-albatrosses-dance-together-on-midway-atoll?highlight=WyJnZXJhbGRpbmUiLCJnZXJhbGRpbmUncyIsMjAyNF0=) on 17 April.  This is the fifth chick to be reared successfully (out of six breeding attempts) by the atoll’s lone Short-tail pair.  George and Geraldine are the only Short-tailed Albatrosses breeding outside of Japan’s [Torishima](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/acap-breeding-site-no-65-torishima-where-short-tailed-albatrosses-have-survived-both-feather-collectors-and-an-active-volcano) and [Ogasawara Islands](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/acap-breeding-site-no-93-mukojima-ogasawara-islands-a-short-tailed-albatross-translocation-site) and the disputed [Senkaku Islands](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/eye-in-the-sky-spots-over-a-hundred-pairs-of-short-tailed-albatrosses-on-the-senkaku-islands?highlight=WyJzZW5rYWt1Il0=).

 *![                               ](https://www.acap.aq/images/WAD2024/Flávia_F._Barreto_Short-tailed_Albatrosses_George_and_Geraldine_J_Plissner.jpg)  
Short-tailed Albatrosses George (at back) and Geraldine, artwork by Flávia F. Barreto after a photograph by Jonathan Plissner*

 News from the [Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge](https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofMidwayNWR?__tn__=-UC-R).  Access previous posts in *ACAP Latest News* about George and Geraldine [here](https://www.acap.aq/search?q=Geraldine&Search=&w1=before&d1=&w2=before&d2=).

 *j26 June 2024*