Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Kure’s Short-tailed Albatross female-female pair returns to the atoll and lays two eggs for a fifth consecutive season

Both the final-phase and intermediate-phase plumaged Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus that make up a female-female pair have been sighted at their nest site near the west end of Green Island, Kure Atoll in the North Pacific this season....
ACAP Breeding Site No. 73. Kure, World’s most northerly coral atoll, supports Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses

The most westerly of the USA’s Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NHWI) in the North Pacific, Kure Atoll falls within the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, a large Marine Protected Area declared in 2006. In 2010 Papahanaumokuakea became one of...
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...
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,...
Counting Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses on Kure Atoll in the wind and rain

Black-footed Albatrosses or Ka’upu Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan Albatrosses or Mōlī P. immutabilis are now incubating on Kure Atoll in the USA's Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Black-footed Albatross on Kure Atoll, photograph by Cynthia Vanderlip An...
Female-female pairing in Laysan Albatrosses: a radio interview with Lindsay Young

Listen to a radio interview with ACAP News Correspondent, Lindsay Young of Pacific Rim Conservation on female-female pairing in Near Threatened Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria immutabilis in Hawaii (click here). Laysan Albatrosses on Midway Atoll....
Opportunity to work with Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses on Kure Atoll

The State of Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife is seeking a temporary-hire/volunteer Biological Technician for the summer 2014 field camp on Green Island, part of the Kure Atoll Wildlife Refuge. Kure...
Short-tailed Albatrosses return once more to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and to Kure Atoll

Two Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus have returned to the USA’s Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the North Pacific. On 27 October 2013 on Eastern Island an adult male was found resting close to the site where he and his mate have...
Counting 27 800 albatross nests on Kure Atoll

News of the annual census of incubating Laysan Phoebastria immutabilis and Black-footed P. nigripes Albatrosses on Kure Atoll in the North-western Hawaiian islands comes from the latest winter camp field report by Hawaii Department of Land and Natural...
The translocated Short-tailed Albatrosses on Mukojima have produced their first egg!

The site where Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus chicks have been translocated to Japan's Mukojima Island over the last five years is kept under watch by a satellite-linked remote camera operated by NHK, a Japanese broadcasting company. The...

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Kure’s Short-tailed Albatross female-female pair returns to the atoll and lays two eggs for a fifth consecutive season

ACAP Breeding Site No. 73. Kure, World’s most northerly coral atoll, supports Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses

The Short-tailed Albatross pair on Midway Atoll fledges its third chick in four years

UPDATED Mystery chick found on Nakodojima: a sixth breeding locality for the Short-tailed Albatross?

Counting Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses on Kure Atoll in the wind and rain

Female-female pairing in Laysan Albatrosses: a radio interview with Lindsay Young

Opportunity to work with Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses on Kure Atoll

Short-tailed Albatrosses return once more to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and to Kure Atoll

Counting 27 800 albatross nests on Kure Atoll

The translocated Short-tailed Albatrosses on Mukojima have produced their first egg!

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