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title: "Presentations on albatrosses and petrels at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 2016 meeting"
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# Presentations on albatrosses and petrels at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 2016 meeting

The [Pacific Seabird Group](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/) held its [43rd Annual Meeting](http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/index.php?f=meeting&t=Annual%20Meeting&s=1) at Turtle Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, USA last week.  The meeting’s [abstract book](http://pacificseabirdgroup.org/meeting/PSG2016_Abstract_Book_6Feb2016.pdf) reveals that a number of presentations dealt with ACAP-listed species - listed below by authors and titles.

 Subjects covered included translocations of Laysan *Phoebastria immutabilis* and Short-tailed *P. albatrus* Albatrosses, predation by House Mice *Mus musculus* on Midway’s albatrosses, fisheries bycatch and habitat restoration.

 Valentina Colodro, Peter Hodum, Christian Lopez, Paola Gonzalez & Hannah Nevins: Restoring critical breeding habitat of the globally Vulnerable Pink-footed Shearwater (*Ardenna creatopus*)  
 Tomohiro Deguchi, Fumio Sato, Masaki Eda, Hiroe Izumi, Hajime Suzuki, Robert Suryan, Ellen Lance, Hasegawa Hiroshi & Kiyoaki Ozaki:  Restoration of the Short-tailed Albatross colony in Ogasawara Islands using translocation and hand-rearing of chicks: short-term outcomes of post-release monitoring  
 Jane Dolliver, Robert Suryan, Christopher Noyles, Ellen Lance & Catherine Yeargan:  Using satellite imagery to count nesting Short-tailed Albatross  
 Meg Duhr-Schultz, Ann Humphrey, Beth Flint, David Dow, Allie Hunter & Thierry Work:  Invasive House Mouse predation on adult nesting albatrosses and subsequent nest abandonment and mortality on Sand Island, Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge  
 Nobuhiro Katsumata: Experiment to develop the mitigation measures of seabirds for small longline vessels in the western North Pacific  
 John Klavitter, Greg Schubert, Pete Leary, Scott Hall, Susan Schulmeister, Meg Duhr-Schultz, Dan Clark, Bret Wolfe, Ann Humphrey & Eric Moore:  Invasive plant *Verbesina encelioides* management at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge: advancing toward eradication  
 Edward Melvin, William Asher, Esteban Fernandez-Juricic & Amy Lim: Results of initial trials to determine if laser light can prevent seabird bycatch in North Pacific fisheries  
 Julio Hernandez-Montoya, Luciana, Luna Mendoza, Alfonso Aguirre-Munoz, Marıa de los Angeles, Milanes Salinas, Yuliana Bedolla-Guzman, Marıa Felix-Lizarraga, & Frederico Mendez-Sanchez:  Laysan Albatross (*Phoebastria immutabilis*) on Guadalupe Island, Mexico: population status, distribution, and advances towards the eradication of feral cat  
 Daisuke Ochi, Nobuhiro Katsumata, Kei Okamoto & Hiroshi Minami:  Evaluation of newly emerging seabird bycatch mitigation gears for tuna longline in the North Pacific  
 John Peschon: A summary of albatross band recovery data in the Hawaii deep and shallow set longline fisheries  
 John Peschon:  A summary of seabird interactions in the Hawaii deep and shallow set longline fisheries in 2014  
 Stacy Vander Pol, Colleen Bryan, Rebecca Greenberg, Yung Wa Sin & Scott  Edwards:  Mercury as a proxy for genetics analysis in albatross (*Phoebastria*spp.) eggs from Midway Atoll  
 Matthew Saunter, Naomi Worcester & Cynthia Vanderlip:  Habitat restoration at Kure Atoll Wildlife Sanctuary  
 Eric VanderWerf, Robby Kohley, Lindsay Young, Tom Savre, Jared Underwood & Joe Schwager:  Translocation of Laysan Albatrosses from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai to James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on Oahu.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/Short-tailed Albatross Midway  2 Pete Leary s.jpg)

 Short-tailed Albatross on Midway Atoll, photograph by Pete Leary

 The meeting also heard of studies on other species of procellariiform seabirds, including Hawaiian Petrel *Pterodroma sandvicensis* and Newell’s Shearwater *Puffinus newellii*, both endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.

 Albatross researcher and conservationist Lindsay Young, a previous ACAP News Correspondent, received a Special Achievement Award from the Pacific Seabird Group at is 2016 meeting.

 Reference:

 Bachman.D., Starr, M.& Karnovsky, N. 2016.  [Pacific Seabird Group 2016 43rd Annual Meeting, O’ahu, Hawai’i Abstract Book](http://pacificseabirdgroup.org/meeting/PSG2016_Abstract_Book_6Feb2016.pdf).  178 pp.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 17 February 2016*