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Presentations on albatrosses and petrels at the Pacific Seabird Group’s 2016 meeting
The Pacific Seabird Group held its 43rd Annual Meeting at Turtle Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, USA last week. The meeting’s abstract book reveals that a number of presentations dealt with ACAP-listed species - listed below by authors and titles. Subjects covered...
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The USA’s latest review of the Short-tailed Albatross makes no change to its domestic conservation status
A review of the conservation status of the globally Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus is required every five years by section 4(c)(2) of the United States’ Endangered Species Act (ESA), under which the species is currently...
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A Future for Seabirds: the Pacific Seabird Group meets next week to hear about North Pacific albatrosses (and other procellariiforms)
The Pacific Seabird Group will be holding its 42nd Annual Meeting next week in San Jose, California, USA, with the theme “A Future for Seabirds”. According to the meeting’s abstract book 10 presentations will be given on the three species of...
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The end of breeding by Short-tailed Albatrosses on Midway Atoll?
A single pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus has bred successfully in three of the four seasons since 2010/11 on the USA’s Midway Atoll, one of the North-Western Hawaiian Islands, as regularly reported in ACAP Latest News...
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Sixty-something Wisdom the Laysan Albatross returns to Midway for yet another breeding season
Wisdom, the World’s oldest-known Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, now considered to be at least 64 years old and first banded as an adult in 1956, was sighted preening her mate (band number G000) on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge on 22...
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The Short-tailed Albatross pair on Midway Atoll fledges its third chick in four years
The Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus pair on Eastern Island, part of the USA’s Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the North Pacific, has fledged its third chick in four years since commencing egg-laying in the 2010/2011 breeding...
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UPDATED Mystery chick found on Nakodojima: a sixth breeding locality for the Short-tailed Albatross?
The Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus breeds mainly on the Japanese island of Torishima (Izu Islands) and on Minami-kojima in the disputed Senkaku Islands. A single STAL pair has bred successfully several times on Eastern Island,...
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ACAP Breeding Site No. 68. Laysan Island and its albatrosses form part of USA’s Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument
One of the USA’s Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NHWI) in the North Pacific, Laysan Island is a raised coral atoll with a central 70-ha hypersaline lake. Its area is about 4 km² (1.6 by 2.4 km); it is one of the largest islands in the NHWI chain. The...
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ACAP’s Executive Secretary, Warren Papworth to present a seminar in the USA next week on that country becoming a Party to the Agreement
Warren Papworth, Executive Secretariat of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels will next week give a lecture in the NOAA Central Library Brown Bag Seminar Series in Washington, D.C., USA on 27 February on the subject “Why the...
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UPDATE: Petition has reached 4188 signatures requesting the USA to ratify ACAP
UPDATE: The petition now aims to collect 5000 signatures and to date has reached a total of 2804 (07 February 2014) and 4188 (08 March 2014). The National Audubon Society, an NGO based in the USA, has initiated an on-line petition that requests US...