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Title	Female Short-tailed Albatross and Chick
Alternative Title	Phoebastria albatrus
Contact	mailto:nctcimages@fws.gov
Creator	Leary, Pete
Description	This is one of the first images of the female short-tailed albatross with her chick. The chick is the first to be hatched outside of Japan. As of 2010, the short-tailed albatross population is estimated to be 1,200 birds. Of these, the total number of breeding age birds is thought to be approximately 600 birds.
FWS Resource Links	http://www.fws.gov/ecos/ajax/speciesProfile/profile/speciesProfile.action?spcode=B00Y http://www.fws.gov/midway/
Subject	Birds Migratory birds Endangered and/or Threatened species Islands Wildlife refuges
Location	Pacific Islands
FWS Site	MIDWAY ATOLL NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Publisher	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Date of Original	2011-02-01
Type	Still Image
Format	JPG
Item ID	5407615715_d4ef13b4e2_b
Source	NCTC Image Library
Rights	Public Domain
File Size	415528 Bytes
Height	683
Width	1024
Color Space	RGB
Full resolution	Volume237/5407615715_d4ef13b4e2_b.jpg http://digitalmedia.fws.gov/FullRes/natdiglib/Volume237/5407615715_d4ef13b4e2_b.jpg
Date created	2011-03-30
Date modified	2015-05-15