Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus)

Species Account

Ordered chronologically (not necessarily by HRBP number)

HRBP 6049. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) bill, Yale Peabody Museum 111056, unknown locality in Hawaii, possibly from Midway in the 1950s (with Black-footed Albatross skull, YPM 106515),. © Peter Pyle
HRBP 5568. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 19 Nov 1973. © Eugene Kridler
HRBP 0012. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 1 Nov 1977. © Nancy Butowski-Casey
HRBP 0013. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 1 Nov 1977. © Nancy Butowski-Casey
HRBP 0014. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 1 Nov 1977. © Nancy Butowski-Casey
HRBP 5570. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Sand Island, Midway Atoll, Nov 1977. © Eugene Kridler
HRBP 0031. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 17 Nov 1978. © Craig S. Harrison
HRBP 0140. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) with Black-footed Albatross. Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 26 Dec 1979. © Gilbert S. Grant
HRBP 0141. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Tern Island, French Frigate Shoal, 13 Jan 1981. © Robert Schulmeister
HRBP 0176. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 1 Feb 1981. © Cindy Eggleston
HRBP 1278. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 1 Jan 1982. © Charlie Sabo
HRBP 0444. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 1 Jan 1985. © Curt Griffin
HRBP 0445. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 1 Jan 1985. © Curt Griffin
HRBP 0558. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) with Black-footed Albatross. Midway Atoll, 20 Nov 1985. © Ken McDermond
HRBP 0490. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) with Black-footed Albatrosses. Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 21 Nov 1985. © Ken McDermond
HRBP 0734. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) with Black-footed and Laysan albatrosses. Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 1 Dec 1987. © Tim Sutterfield
HRBP 0735. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) with Black-footed and Laysan albatrosses. Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 1 Dec 1987. © Tim Sutterfield
HRBP 0898. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) with Black-footed and Laysan albatrosses. Midway Atoll, 1 Jan 1989. © Ceci Green
HRBP 0899. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Midway Atoll, 1 Jan 1989. © Ceci Green
HRBP 0900. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) with Black-footed and Laysan albatrosses. Midway Atoll, 1 Jan 1989. © Ceci Green
HRBP 0901. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Midway Atoll, 1 Jan 1989. © Ceci Green
HRBP 1393. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Sand Island, Midway Atoll, Nov 1998. © Peter Pyle
HRBP 1244. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus), rear center, with Laysan Albatrosses. Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 6 Apr 1999. © Tristan McKee
HRBP 5062. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 1 Jan 2003. © Chuck King
HRBP 5063. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) with decoys and Laysan Albatrosses. Eastern Island, Midway Atoll, 11 Feb 2004. © John Klavitter/USFWS
HRBP 5569. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Laysan Island, 10 Apr 2006. © Cindy Rhenkemper/USFWS
HRBP 6050. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Laysan Island, 10 Apr 2006. © Sarah Flaherty/USFWS
HRBP 6051. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Kure Atoll, 10 Nov 2007. © Lindsay Young
HRBP 5724. Pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses (Phoebastria albatrus). Eastern Island, Midway Atoll, 24 Nov 2009. © John Klavitter/USFWS
HRBP 5725. Pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses (Phoebastria albatrus). Eastern Island, Midway Atoll, 24 Nov 2009. © John Klavitter/USFWS
HRBP 6052. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Kure Atoll, 21 Nov 2010. © Cyynthia Vanderlip
HRBP 6053. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). Laysan Island, 4 Dec 2011. © Cameron Rutt
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HRBP 6054. Three Short-tailed Albatrosses (Phoebastria albatrus). Kure Atoll, 23 Jan 2011. © Cyynthia Vanderlip
HRBP 6055. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus). French Frigate Shoals, 31 Jan 2011. © Dashkin Marlier/USFWS
HRBP 6056. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus), back, with Black-footed and Laysan albatrosses. French Frigate Shoals, 31 Jan 2011. © Dashkin Marlier/USFWS
HRBP 6057. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) chick, Midway Atoll, June 2011. © USFWS
HRBP 6058. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus), three-year-old, Midway Atoll, 16 Feb 2012. © Ron LeValley
HRBP 6059. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus), breeding female, Eastern Island, Midway Atoll, 16 Feb 2012. © Ron LeValley
HRBP 6060. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) chick, Midway Atoll, June 2012. © John Klavitter/USFWS
HRBP 6061. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus), female on nest, Kure Atoll, 10 Nov 2014. © Cyynthia Vanderlip
     
HRBP 6062. Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) found dead, Eastern Island, Midway Atoll, 13 Dec 2014 (now BPBM 186122). © Dan Clark/USFWS
     
Photographs and images contributed to Hawaii Rare Bird Photograph (HRBP) file, B. P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu and part of The Birds of the Hawaiian Islands: Occurrence, History, Distribution, and Status by Robert L. Pyle and Peter Pyle. See Introduction for more information.