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This month field expeditions have headed out from Honolulu on Oahu to Kure, Laysan and Tern (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) and after seasonal breaks and for team replacements.

Click here 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 (which includes the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge)

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

Photograph by Eric Vanderwerf

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 30 March 2013