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title: "Kalama's Journey:  a Laysan Albatross gets filmed from hatching to fledging"
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# Kalama's Journey:  a Laysan Albatross gets filmed from hatching to fledging

After nearly two years of filming, Kalama's Journey, an attractive [eight-minute film](https://vimeo.com/297216910?fbclid=IwAR19e1VRjzQN_RBJgNM7B4iiEnFd6iN5q8om7FyVh9uy4rpTXKMJkyDE2KI) produced by talented author and photographer,[Hob Osterlund](https://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/2523-book-review-holy-moli-a-personal-journey-with-albatrosses?highlight=WyJvc3Rlcmx1bmQiLCJvc3Rlcmx1bmQncyJd), is now ready for viewing online.  Kalama, a [globally Near Threatened](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/22698365) Laysan Albatross *Phoebastria immutabilis* chick on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, became well known by being the subject of a live-streaming “[albicam](https://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/1861-lights-camera-action-follow-the-fortunes-of-a-laysan-albatross-chick-in-a-hawaiian-suburban-garden?highlight=WyJjb3JuZWxsIl0=)”, hosted and operated by the [Cornell Lab of Ornithology](http://www.birds.cornell.edu/Page.aspx?pid=1478).

 The video takes the watcher through the hatching, rearing and fledging of an albatross chick reared by an all-female pair.  The audio discusses the problems of sea-level rise and the importance of Kauai’s breeding albatrosses protected from climate change by nesting at altitude on bluff and cliff tops.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/L/Laysan/Kalama.Laysan.mother.Hob.Osterlund.jpg)

 One of the female parents incubates Kalama's egg

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/L/Laysan/Kalama.Laysan.Hob.Osterlund.jpg)

 Kalama as a downy chick, photographs by Hob Osterlund

 Watch the video [here](https://vimeo.com/297216910?fbclid=IwAR19e1VRjzQN_RBJgNM7B4iiEnFd6iN5q8om7FyVh9uy4rpTXKMJkyDE2KI).

 Lastly, pleasant to see that ACAP, and its Information Officer, are both listed in the film’s acknowledgements.

 With thanks to Hob Osterlund for information and photographs.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 05 November 2018*