Over 10,000 albatrosses reported on Japan island after "extinction"

TOKYO - The population of endangered short-tailed albatrosses on a remote Japanese island has exceeded 10,000 for the first time since a small number of the seabirds were rediscovered there 75 years ago, according to a Japanese research institute.

The Yamashina Institute for Ornithology said a breeding survey conducted in February and March found 11,067 of the birds, which were considered extinct until 1951, on the volcanic Torishima Island of the Izu island chain in the Pacific.