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title: "Party time!  Dance in the New Year with Pacific albatrosses"
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# Party time!  Dance in the New Year with Pacific albatrosses

OK, so this is not actually "latest news", but it is the end of 2011, so let's celebrate an eight-month daily streak* with *ACAP Latest News* by dancing in the New Year albatross-style.

 Choose your favourite albatross and enjoy!

 **Black-foots:**

 [Dance One](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qYCCbgKzgM&feature=related)

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Black_footed/black-footed_albatross_kaena_point_lindsay_young.jpg)  
Black-footed Albatross at Kaena Point, Oahu, Hawaii  
Photograph by Lindsay Young

 **Laysans:**

 [Dance One](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBm3oqMnWyo)

 [Dance Two](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpoGfbQ0l8o&NR=1&feature=endscreen)

 [Dance Three](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=018GZ8PSxbc&NR=1)

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/L/Laysan/Laysan_Albatross_Pair_Clarion_by_Ross_Wanless.JPG)  
Laysan Albatrosses on Isla Clarión, Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico  
Photograph by Ross Wanless

 **Waveds:**

 [Dance One](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5013pGsITw&feature=related)

 [Dance Two](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypNYiMvLS8Y&feature=related)

 [Dance Three](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAEw27lcYUw&feature=related)

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/W/Waved/waved_albatross_adult_john_cooper.jpg)  
Waved Albatross, Isla Española, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Photograph by John Cooper

 **Short-taileds (and other species):**

 [Dance One](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbfZSRz1jPk&feature=related)

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/short_tailed_albatross_kure_cynthia_ vanderlip.jpg)  
Short-tailed Albatross, Kure Atoll, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, USA  
Photograph by Cynthia Vanderlip

 All the best to all for 2012.

 ***a spell or run (informal)

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 31 December 2012*