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Article: LISTING ACTIONS.
- Article from:
- Endangered Species Bulletin
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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During October and November 1998, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) published the following proposed and final Endangered Species Act (ESA) listing actions in the Federal Register:
Listing Proposals
Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) Although the short-tailed albatross has been listed by the FWS as endangered since 1970, an administrative error led to its listing only as a foreign species. At present, it breeds only on several Japanese islands, but this bird ranges throughout the northern Pacific Ocean and north into the Bering Sea during the nonbreeding season. Although there currently are no known breeding populations in the United States, ...