\Wisdom’s offspring N333 shows its egg and colour band on 06 December 2025, photograph by Dan Rapp

Wisdom the well-known seventy something Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis on Midway Atoll is back for the new breeding season as recently reported in ACAP Latest News.  The latest information from the Facebook page of the Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is that Wisdom’s 2010/11 chick, colour banded red N333 and considered to be a male, was spotted incubating on Midway’s Sand Island on 06 December by USFWS biologist and FOMA volunteer Dan Rapp of N333.  Watch a 27-s video he then made of N333 preening.

N333 was first recorded breeding in the 2021/22 season.  For a complete history, past chicks and new photos, click here; also see several articles in ACAP Latest News

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 18 December 2025

 George and Geraldine (in front) on Midway Atoll, December 2025

George and Geraldine, the solitary pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific, have returned to their usual Sand Island breeding site this month.  Alongside the pair is their 2019 fledgling.

 The pair’s 2019 chick close to its parents, December 2025.  Photographs by USFWS Supervisory Wildlife Biologist Jon Plissner

The two birds have successfully raised and fledged five chicks in the last six breeding seasons, with no success in the last (2024/25) season.  Read more about George and Geraldine here and in previous articles posted to ACAP Latest News.

Information from the Facebook page of the Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 17 December 2025

The latest issue, No. 16, December 2025, of the Quarterly Newsletter of the Saving Marion Island’s Seabirds: The Mouse-Free Marion (MFM) Project , along with all previous issues, can be downloaded from the MFM website here.

In this issue:

Year in review: reflecting on 2025 and looking ahead to 2026 - by The MFM Project Team

Saving an island one step at a time - by Roelf Daling, MFM Field Assistant

The Mouse-Free Marion Project becomes a 1% for the Planet Environmental Partner - by John Cooper, MFM News Correspondent

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 16 December 2025

The latest ACAP Species Infographic released today, the 21st to be produced in the 31-species series, is for the Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus (Least Concern).  It has been sponsored by the Australian Antarctic Division.  It is the fourth to be produced for an ACAP-listed petrel, following those for the Least Concern Northern Giant Petrel M. halli, the Near Threatened Grey Petrel Procellaria cinerea and the Vulnerable White-chinned Petrel P. aequinoctialis.  The other 17 infographics are all for albatrosses.  It is also being produced in the official ACAP languages of French and Spanish, and in Portuguese, reflecting it is a regular visitor to Brazilian waters.  These versions are expected to be released soon.

“Bloody Beauty”.  A scavenging Southern Giant Petrel, artwork in pastels by Marion Schön of Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature (ABUN) for ACAP, after a photograph by Jaimie Cleeland

The ACAP Species Infographic series has been designed to help inform the public, including school learners, of the threats faced by albatrosses and petrels and what is being and can be done to combat them.  They serve to complement the more detailed and referenced ACAP Species Assessments, the concise and illustrated ACAP Species Summaries and the ACAP Photo Essay series.  English and Portuguese language versions of the infographics produced to date are available to download here.  French and Spanish versions can be found in their respective language menus for the website under Infographies sur les espèces and Infographía sobres las especies.

The 21 infographics produced to date may be freely downloaded at a high resolution to allow for printing professionally in two poster sizes (approximately A2 and A3).  Please note they are only being made available for personal use or when engaging in activities that will aid in drawing attention to the conservation crisis faced by the world’s albatrosses and petrels – when ACAP will be pleased to receive a mention.  They should not be used for personal gain.

It is intended to produce two more ACAP Species Infographics in the first half of next year in support of World Albatross Day on 19 June (“WAD2026”) and its theme of Habitat Restoration.  They will be for the Endangered Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos, endemic to the Tristan da Cunha islands, part of the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic and the Vulnerable Chatham Albatross T. eremita, endemic to the Chatham Islands, New Zealand.

The ACAP Species Infographics are all created by Thai illustrator Namasri ‘Namo’ Niumim from Bangkok.  Namo is a graduate of the School of Architecture and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Design.

With thanks to Jonathon Barrington, Karine Delord, Johannes Fischer and Richard Phillips for their help.

John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 15 December 2025