Sources

In my blog you will see citations like (1)(2) etc. These correspond to the listed sources here.

1.) Finkelstein, M.E, D.F Doak, M Nakagawa, P.R Sievert, and J Klavitter. "Assessment of Demographic Risk Factors and Management Priorities: Impacts on Juveniles Substantially Affect Population Viability of a Long-Lived Seabird." Animal Conservation. 13.2 (2010): 148-156. Print.
2.) http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/oceanissues/plastics_albatross/
3.)Status Assessment of Laysan and Black-Footed Albatrosses, North Pacific Ocean, 1923-2005By Javier A. Arata, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Paul R. Sievert, U.S. Geological Survey, and Maura B. Naughton, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

4.) http://www.iucnredlist.org/

5.) Plastic ingestion by Laysan Albatross chicks on

Sand Island, Midway Atoll, in 1994 and 1995.

Heidi J. Auman et al. In Albatross Biology and Conservation, pp239-44, 1997

6.) http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sowb/casestudy/159

7.) Sileo, L, PR Sievert, and MD Samuel. "Causes of Mortality of Albatross Chicks at Midway Atoll." Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 26.3 (1990): 329-38. Print.

8.) http://www.midwayjourney.com/about/

9.) http://www.fws.gov/midway/Midway_Atoll_NWR_Cigarette_Lighters.pdf

10.) http://www.fws.gov/midway/laal.html

11.) http://news.ucsc.edu/2009/10/3322.html

12.) Young LC, Vanderlip C, Duffy DC, Afanasyev V, Shaffer SA (2009) Bringing Home the Trash: Do Colony-Based Differences in Foraging Distribution Lead to Increased Plastic Ingestion in Laysan Albatrosses? PLoS ONE 4(10): e7623. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007623

13.) http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/birds/albatross_poisoning/index.html 

14.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway

15.) http://www.lafeberconservationwildlife.com/?p=132

16.) Estimating Survival and Life-Stage Transitions in the Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) using Multistate Mark—Recapture Models

17.) http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3958