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Title	Male Short-tailed albatross incubating egg
Alternative Title	Phoebastria albatrus
Contact	mailto:nctcimages@fws.gov
Creator	Klavitter, John
Description	This historic photo documents the first siting of a nesting short-tailed albatross (middle) at Midway Atoll national Wildlife Refuge. The two decoys on either side have been used (along with others and accompanying broadcasts of bird calls) on Eastern Island for several years to attract short-tailed albatross. It worked!Establishing a new nesting colony is important due to the ever-present threat of volcanic activity at the short-tailed albatross' main nesting colony on Torishima Island, Japan. In 1939 the main breeding colony on Torishima Island was buried under 30-90 feet of lava due to a volcanic eruption. Population numbers plummeted to 10 nesting pairs. Since then, conservation efforts have helped increase the population to approximately 2,400 birds, but the breeding colony at Torishima remains at risk.
FWS Resource Links	http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/profile/speciesProfile.action?spcode=B00Y http://www.fws.gov/midway/
Subject	Birds Marine 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	2010-11-16
Type	Still Image
Format	JPG
Item ID	5229964534_1e3f45ddf1_b
Source	USFWS Pacific Region/Flickr
Rights	Public Domain
File Size	673072 Bytes
Height	768
Width	1024
Color Space	RGB
Full resolution	Volume237/5229964534_1e3f45ddf1_b.jpg http://digitalmedia.fws.gov/FullRes/natdiglib/Volume237/5229964534_1e3f45ddf1_b.jpg
Date created	2011-05-11
Date modified	2015-05-15