Posted by: Sandy Steinman | January 23, 2012

Short-tailed Albatross Chick Born in Hawaii

English: Lobularia maritima (with short tailed...

The American Bird Conservancy reports:

“For the second time ever recorded, an endangered Short-tailed Albatross has nested in the United States and produced a chick. The recent discovery of the nest and chick on Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands follows the fledging of the first U.S.-born chick last year at the same site by the same parents.”

Read more at:  Endangered Bird Produces a Chick on U.S. Soil for Second Time in History.


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