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🔊 Sound—and we can't emphasize this enough—on. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service spotted this pair of endangered short-tailed albatross visiting Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge for the 9th straight nesting season! Affectionately named George and Geraldine, the lovebirds are "rarities at the atoll on the northwestern edge of the Hawaiian archipelago, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Laysan and black-footed albatross nests," according to USFWS. The seabird was listed as endangered in 2