In support of maintaining the standard of comprehensive and accurate reporting that we all value so much in this publication, we would like to offer a few corrections and additions to the article entitled “Groups Seek Federal Listing For Black-footed Albatross” published in April 2008. Mr. Paul Dalzell’s evaluation of the quality and quantity of data available for use in making a scientifically informed decision about listing the species appears to have been made without any actual information about those data. In fact, it may be impossible to name any other vertebrate with a similar world population size and life history for which so much is known. [Dalzell is the senior scientist for the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council.]