Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine have fledged their fifth chick on Midway Atoll

Midway STAL chick 28 April Narongkorn Thatsanangkun
A Short-tailed Albatross chick on Midway Atoll, photograph by Narongkorn Thatsanangkun

George and Geraldine, the well-known pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus on Midway Atoll’s Sand Island fledged their latest chick around late May this year – it was last seen when it was videoed, on 23 May.

The chick was given its metal and colour bands on 17 April.  This is the fifth chick to be reared successfully (out of six breeding attempts) by the atoll’s lone Short-tail pair.  George and Geraldine are the only Short-tailed Albatrosses breeding outside of Japan’s Torishima and Ogasawara Islands and the disputed Senkaku Islands.


Short-tailed Albatrosses George (at back) and Geraldine, artwork by Flávia F. Barreto after a photograph by Jonathan Plissner

News from the Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.  Access previous posts in ACAP Latest News about George and Geraldine here.

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