Daily Archives: December 9, 2010

Comebacks: Endangered albatross nests on U.S. soil

Great news for the Short-tailed Albatross, a bird once so endangered by feather hunting that its population plummeted from an estimated million individuals to 10 pairs nesting on a single island in Japan in the 1950s. Since then, the long-lived species has slowly improved its numbers to about 3,000 birds. Today, the American Bird Conservancy [...]