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title: "Field workers head back to the Northwest Hawaiian albatross islands"
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# Field workers head back to the Northwest Hawaiian albatross islands

This month field expeditions have headed out from Honolulu on Oahu to [Kure](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kure_Atoll), [Laysan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laysan) and [Tern](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tern_Island_(Hawaii))([French Frigate Shoals](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Frigate_Shoals)) in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to continue research and management activities with ACAP-listed Laysan *Phoebastria immutabilis* and Black-footed *P. nigripes* Albatrosses and with other seabirds following evacuation after a violent storm on Tern last December ([click here](https://www.acap.aq/index.php/en/news/latest-news/1209-laysan-and-black-footed-albatrosses-killed-by-flying-debris-from-storm-shattered-buildings-on-hawaii-s-tern-island)) and after seasonal breaks and for team replacements.

 [Click here](http://frenchfrigateshoals.org/2013/03/14/heading-back-out/)to read details of the team back at Tern and their plans for a clean-up of the storm-damaged buildings.

 These redeployments to islands and atolls fall within the [Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and World Heritage Site](http://www.papahanaumokuakea.gov/)(which includes the [Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge](http://www.fws.gov/midway/))

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/L/Laysan/laysan_black-footed_midway_by_eric_vanderwerf.jpg) 

 Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses fly together along an island shore

 Photograph by Eric Vanderwerf

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 30 March 2013*