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title: "Midway Atoll’s Short-tailed Albatross pair, George and Geraldine, return for a new breeding season"
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# Midway Atoll’s Short-tailed Albatross pair, George and Geraldine, return for a new breeding season

![Dec 2025 George and Geraldine Jon Plissner](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/Dec_2025_George_and_Geraldine_Jon_Plissner.jpg) *George and Geraldine (in front) on Midway Atoll, December 2025*

 George and Geraldine, the solitary pair of [Vulnerable](https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/short-tailed-albatross-phoebastria-albatrus) 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.

 ![Dec 2025 George and Geraldine and 2019 chick Jon Plissner](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/Dec_2025_George_and_Geraldine_and_2019_chick_Jon_Plissner.jpg) *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](https://friendsofmidway.org/a-banner-year-for-the-short-tailed-albatrosses-on-kuaihelani/) and in [previous articles](https://www.acap.aq/search?q=Geraldine+George&Search=&w1=before&d1=&w2=before&d2=) posted to *ACAP Latest News*.

 Information from the Facebook page of the [Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge](https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofMidwayNWR).

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