Albatrosses Colonize New Breeding Site

摘要

After years of waiting, Japanese efforts to reintroduce short-tailed albatrosses to a historic and safer breeding site paid off. Last week, researchers reported that they had found the first egg known to result from the mating of an adult that had been translocated as a chick to this new site. Since 2008, researchers have been taking chicks from Torishima, where an established breeding colony is considered threatened by an active volcano, and hand-raising them on Mukojima, 350 kilometers to the south. Short-tailed albatrosses, considered vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, spend several years at sea before returning to their natal island to mate.