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title: "Repeating last year’s achievement – the first translocated Black-footed Albatross chick on Oahu fledges on World Albatross Day"
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# Repeating last year’s achievement – the first translocated Black-footed Albatross chick on Oahu fledges on World Albatross Day

![Translocated Black footed Albatross James Campbell](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Black_footed/Translocated_Black-footed_Albatross_James_Campbell.jpg)

 *Ready to fledge: a translocated Black-footed Albatross rests betweem two adult decoys; photograph by Leilani Fowlke, Pacific Rim Conservation*

 The first Black-footed Albatross *Phoebastria nigripes* ([Near Threatened](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/22698350)) of the current cohort of translocated and hand-reared chicks fledged from the [James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge](https://www.fws.gov/refuge/james_campbell) on the Hawaiian island of Oahu on the morning of 19 June – World Albatross Day.  The previous year’s cohort also fledged its first on 19 June!

 “This is the fifth, and final year of Black-footed Albatross translocations in the hope of establishing a new colony on an island safe from predicted sea level rise.”

 Read more about the translocation programme in [*ACAP Latest News*](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/3771-fourth-year-of-black-footed-albatross-translocation-goes-well-as-all-25-fledge-from-hawaii-s-james-campbell-national-wildlife-refuge?highlight=WyJibGFjay1mb290ZWQiLCJqYW1lcyJd) and [here](https://www.islandarks.org).

 Meanwhile over on Mexico’s Isla Guadalupe, the first translocated Black-footed Albatross fledged just a few days before last Saturday’s World Albatross Day ([click here](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/4089-mexico-fledges-snowflake-its-first-ever-black-footed-albatross-in-time-for-world-albatross-day)).

 The James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge may not be the first locality on Oahu where Black-footed Albatrosses commence breeding.  It might be in the [Kaena Point Natural Area Reserve](https://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1333-acap-breeding-sites-no-14-kaena-point-oahu-hawaii-protects-its-laysan-albatrosses-and-wedge-tailed-shearwaters-behind-a-predator-proof-fence) as early as next year ([click here](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/3964-black-footed-albatrosses-to-breed-on-oahu-for-the-first-time-next-season?highlight=WyJibGFjay1mb290ZWQiLCJqYW1lcyJd)).

 News from the [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/prconservation) of Pacific Rim Conservation.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 23 June 2021*