Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Albatross research gets featured at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 2024 Annual Meeting

Ten papers about albatrosses were presented to the Pacific Seabird Group’s 51st Annual Meeting, with the theme “Faces of Seabird Conservation”, held last month in Seattle, Washington, United States of America,. Their titles and authors follow. Go to...
What’s in a name – Short-tailed or Steller’s Albatross?

Georg Steller, 18th Century German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer. Artwork courtesy of the Center of Russian-German Cooperation of Georg Wilhelm Steller, University of Tyumen The Vulnerable Short-tailed or Steller's Albatross Phoebastria...
Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses get counted for another year on the USA’s Kure and Midway Atolls

Breeding Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses on Kure Atoll, photograph by Cynthia Vanderlip Breeding Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan P. immutabilis Albatrosses have once more been counted on two of the USA’s Northwestern Hawaiian Islands...
George and Geraldine, the lone Short-tailed Albatross pair on Midway Atoll, have a new chick

Short-tailed Albatrosses George (left) and Geraldine brood their latest chick on Midway Atoll, 26 December 2023, photograph by Nick Minnich The lone Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus pair well known as George and Geraldine on the USA’s Midway...
UPDATED. George and Geraldine, Midway Atoll’s sole Short-tailed Albatross pair, are back for a new season - and have an egg

George (left) and Geraldine return for a new breeding season, photograph by USFWS/Jonathon Plissner UPDATE: The Short-tailed Albatross have an egg for the 2023/24 season and incubation is proceeding, with the male having taken over duties from the...
UPDATED. Who’s a big boy then? Midway Atoll’s latest Short-tailed Albatross chick gets its bands - and fledges a month later

USFWS Bio-technician Laura Brazier and Supervisory Biologist Jon Plissner band Midway’s latest Short-tailed Albatross chick on 16 April 2023, photograph by USFWS Volunteer Andrew Sullivan-Haskins “Wow! What a big chunky fuzzball” – Hob Osterlund,...
Start of a new colony? The Short-tailed Albatrosses of Midway Atoll are up to five this season

Geraldine with her 2023 chick, photograph by Caren Loebel-Fried George and Geraldine, the sole pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus breeding on Midway Atoll, have hatched their latest egg that was laid back in October last...
Hands-on management works. Black-footed and Laysan Albatross news from Hawaii

This Laysan Albatross pair seems safe from climate change 500 m above the sea in the Kuaokala Game Management Area on Oahu, photograph from Pacific Rim Conservation For some years, ACAP Latest News has regularly reported on conservation management...
Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine are back incubating on Midway, and they have some new friends!

George incubating this month, photograph by Jon Plissner/USFWS Geraldine, the Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus was seen back on Midway Atoll’s Sand Island on 20-21 October and since then her mate George has been incubating. A...
Updates on the conservation of albatrosses in the Hawaiian islands

The 2019 fledgling Short-tailed Albatross (right) returns to Midway Atoll. Its parents are on the left; photograph by Jon Plissner Note: ACAP Latest News aims to post on recent developments and findings in procellariiform science and conservation...

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Albatross research gets featured at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 2024 Annual Meeting

What’s in a name – Short-tailed or Steller’s Albatross?

Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses get counted for another year on the USA’s Kure and Midway Atolls

George and Geraldine, the lone Short-tailed Albatross pair on Midway Atoll, have a new chick

UPDATED. George and Geraldine, Midway Atoll’s sole Short-tailed Albatross pair, are back for a new season - and have an egg

UPDATED. Who’s a big boy then? Midway Atoll’s latest Short-tailed Albatross chick gets its bands - and fledges a month later

Start of a new colony? The Short-tailed Albatrosses of Midway Atoll are up to five this season

Hands-on management works. Black-footed and Laysan Albatross news from Hawaii

Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine are back incubating on Midway, and they have some new friends!

Updates on the conservation of albatrosses in the Hawaiian islands

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels