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title: "Laysan Albatrosses set for a good season in the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on Kauai "
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# Laysan Albatrosses set for a good season in the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on Kauai 

![Kilauea Point Laysan Ad wth chick 20 21 Jacqueline Olivera](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/L/Laysan/Kilauea_Point_Laysan_Ad_wth_chick_20_21_Jacqueline_Olivera.jpg)

 *Safe from sea-level rise: a Laysan Albatross and its downy chick in the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge; photograph by Jacqueline Olivera*

 The [Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge](https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Kilauea_Point/) on the Hawaiian island of Kauai supports a breeding colony of Laysan Albatrosses or Mōlī *Phoebastria immutabilis*([Near Threatened](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/laysan-albatross-phoebastria-immutabilis)) that is safe from sea-level rise and is protected from pigs and dogs by a fence.

 The 2020/21 breeding season looks like to be heading to being a good one with 129 eggs laid (not 126 as [previously reported](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/3903-126-moli-nests-as-the-2020-21-season-gets-underway-in-the-kilauea-point-national-wildlife-refuge-on-kauai?highlight=WyJraWxhdWVhIiwicG9pbnQiLCJwb2ludCdzIiwicG9pbnQnLCIsImtpbGF1ZWEgcG9pbnQiXQ%3D%3D&fbclid=IwAR1PRm5jDHaZPXkqxGlCfZ50_hUOYtuTF4KB-poJU9_dAoOQpR1_foeCoZo)) compared to 121 in the 2018/19 season and 116 in 2019/20.  A total of 87 eggs hatched, giving a hatching success of 67.4% according to the [Kilauea Point Natural History Association](https://www.facebook.com/FKWRKauai).

 [![Kilauea Point Laysan with egg 20 21 Jacqueline Olivera](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/L/Laysan/Kilauea_Point_Laysan_with_egg_20_21_Jacqueline_Olivera.jpg)](https://www.facebook.com/FKWRKauai)

 *A banded Laysan Albatross stands over its egg in the Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge; photograph by Jacqueline Olivera*

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 26 March 2021*