September 24th, 2010 | 
Author: Footed Age
First Hawaiian "golden gooney" chick to fly soon (RaisingIslands?format=xml)
There are few good-news stories on the environmental beat, but the tale of
Midway's golden goonies is one.
These charismatic and endangered seabirds are known to professionals as short-
tailed albatross, but their regal golden heads give them their popular name.
(Images: Papa golden gooney sits on young chick. Later, big chick nears
fledging age. Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photos.)
They are rare birds anywhere, and nesting colonies only occur on a couple of
small islands controlled by Japan. A few years ago one, then two, then three
of them appeared among the massive colonies of Laysan albatross and black-
footed albatross in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
This year, a pair produced a live chick at Midway Atoll—the first known short-
tailed albatross hatched outside Japan. And since albatross tend to return to
their islands of hatching, it's hoped the chick will decide to stay in Hawai`i
and establish a small colony here. (They don't always go back to their
birthplace. Both parents were banded and are believed to have been hatched at
Japan's Torishima Island.)
“We are very excited that the chick, raised by first-time parents, has made it
to where we believe it ...
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