Short-tailed Albatross re-introduction project

By Charlie • March 3, 2008 • 1 comment

The Yamashina Institute for Ornithology (in collaboration with the US Fish and Wildlife Service) has just started an ambitious reintroduction project of the Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatross. On 19 February 10 albatross chicks from Torishima were taken to the uninhabited Mukojima Island in the Ogasawara Islands group. For details see Yamashina I O

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