Biodiversity Center of Japan, the Ministry of the Environment
Web-GIS Atlas of Birds (Bird Banding Surveys, data of recovery records)

Short-tailed Albatross

Phoebastria albatrus  

Web-GIS Atlas of Birds (Bird Banding Survey, Data of recovery records) for this species is not open to the public, from a conservational point of view.
Short-tailed Albatross
The number of newly banded birds3955 
The number of birds captured away from the release site59  
Longest migration distance8147km
Longest recovery period- days

Legend
The number of newly banded birds
The number of individual birds that received a leg band and that were released in Japan
The number of birds recovered away from the release site
Of the total number of captures, the number of those encountered at a site five km or more away from the release site
Longest migration distance
The longest recorded distance from the release site to the capture site
Longest recapture period
The recorded longest period of time from the release date to the capture date
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