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title: "No luck for Midway Atoll’s Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine this season"
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# No luck for Midway Atoll’s Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine this season

*![G and G 2025 Joe Owen 2](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/G_and_G_2025_Joe_Owen_2.jpg)  
George (on left) and Geraldine, photograph by USFWS Volunteer Joe Owen*

 Midway Atoll’s well-known Short-tailed Albatrosses *Phoebastria albatrus* George and Geraldine did not hatch their egg this breeding season, according to a report from the [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofMidwayNWR) of the Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.

 *![G and G 2025 Joe Owen 1](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/G_and_G_2025_Joe_Owen_1.jpg)**George (on left) and Geraldine, photograph by USFWS Volunteer Joe Owen*

 The two birds, the sole breeding pair on Midway, have successfully raised and fledged five chicks in the last six breeding seasons.

 Read [more](https://www.acap.aq/search?q=George+Geraldine&Search=&w1=before&d1=&w2=before&d2=) about George and Geraldine in *ACAP Latest News*.

 *John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 20 March 2025*