Wake Forest University Satellite Tracking - Tern Island Albatrosses 1998

Satellite telemetry was used to identify the foraging distributions
of two congeneric species of albatrosses that nest in the tropics / subtropics.
Breeding Black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) and Laysan albatross
(Phoebastria immutabilis) nesting in Tern Island (Northwest Hawaiian Islands)
and tracked during the 1998 breeding season (January - June) performed foraging
trips to continental shelves off North America. Black-footed albatross made
long trips to the west coast of North America (British Columbia to California).
Laysan albatross traveled primarily to the north of the Hawaiian Islands, and
reached the waters of the Aleutian Islands and the Gulf of Alaska. These
albatross species mixed short and long trips during the chick-rearing period
(February - June), but engaged in short foraging trips during the brooding
period (within 18 days after chick hatched, January - February).