The rarest of the North Pacific albatross species, the Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus , has only been documented breeding on islands off Japan, despite increasing sightings of individuals among other albatross colonies in the Hawaiian...
It appears that Hawaii is becoming a hot destination for Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus in 2010. Despite numerous sightings of this species in the Hawaiian Archipelago over the last several decades, there are no records (either...
There is increasing concern over the conservation status of the Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes, of which 95% of the global population breeds in the USA's North-western Hawaiian Islands. The World Conservation Union lists the species as...
LATEST INFORMATION AND PHOTOGRAPHS **16 March: For more information and photographs on the effects of the tsunami on the albatrosses of Midway Atoll click here and visit Pete Leary's blog Pete at Midway . **18 March: Visit...
Much like the airplanes that many of us rely on for transport to far and away places, albatrosses also require suitable ‘take off' and ‘landing strips' from which to access their breeding colonies. As a result, they often choose nesting sites with...
The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative ( KIUC ) on the USA's Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i has secured an Endangered Species Act ( ESA ) incidental take permit for Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli. The utility will now be implementing mea sures that...
Education and increasing awareness is one of the basic aims of the Albatross and Petrel Agreement. Section 6 of ACAP's Action Plan calls for Parties to "seek to make local communities and the public in general more aware of the status of albatrosses...
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...
Not all the information on albatrosses and petrels that comes ACAP's way is perhaps worthy of its own story in ACAP Latest News. So from time to time I will run intriguing items of news together into a single story. Today's comes from the North Pacific...
The 39th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group was held on the island of Oahu, Hawaii over 7-11 February 2012. A Special Paper Session on Hawaii endemics included seven presentations on the globally Endangered Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli...
SECOND UPDATE A second mongoose has been live-trapped on Kauai. See photographs at http://www.facebook.com/john.cooper.54#!/media/set/?set=a.407873469249094.84750.103663463003431&type=1 ***************************** Listen to an interview or read the...
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...
Six species of procellariiform seabirds are included on Appendices of the Bonn Convention on Migratory Species ( CMS ) that are not as yet listed within the Albatross and Petrel Agreement. Two of these species, the Pink-footed Shearwater Puffinus...
Andreanna Welch ( Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute , Washington, DC, USA) and colleagues, writing in the journal Heredity , have looked at the genetics of the Migratory Species Convention -listed Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis that...
A total of 105 incubating Laysan Albatross pairs has been counted within the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on Kauai this year. Click here to read about successes with the actively-managed Newell's Shearwaters Puffinus newelli that also breed at...
