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Title	Female Short-tailed Albatross Incubating Her Egg
Alternative Title	Phoebastria albatrus
Creator	Maxfield, Barbara
Description	US Fish and Wildlife Service staff have observed a pair of short-tailed albatross incubating an egg on Eastern Island, Midway Atoll NWR. The adult male was banded as a fledgling on Torishima Island, Japan in 1987. The female was banded as a fledgling in 2003, also on Torishima. If the pair's effort is successful, this would mark the first confirmed hatching of a short-tailed albatross outside of Japan in modern history! As you can see, Midway Atoll is favored by Laysan albatross. It is in fact, the largest albatross colony in the world with an estimated 1.5 million birds.
FWS Resource Links	http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/profile/speciesProfile.action?spcode=B00Y http://www.fws.gov/midway/
Subject	Birds Marine birds Endangered species Islands Wildlife refuges
Location	Pacific Islands
FWS Site	MIDWAY ATOLL NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Publisher	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Date of Original	6 December 2010
Type	Still Image
Format	JPG
Item ID	5238898022_b579928f41_b
Source	USFWS Pacific Region/Flickr
Rights	Public Domain
File Size	462030 Bytes
Height	683
Width	1024
Color Space	RGB
Full resolution	Volume237/5238898022_b579928f41_b.jpg http://digitalmedia.fws.gov/FullRes/natdiglib/Volume237/5238898022_b579928f41_b.jpg
Date created	2011-05-11
Date modified	2013-03-06