non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation , writes in the latest issue of Gooney Gazette II , the newsletter of the Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Reserve ( FOMA ), on plans to establish a colony of globally Near Threatened Black-footed Albatrosses...
attacking and causing the deaths of incubating Laysan Phoebastria immutabilis and Black-footed P. nigripes Albatrosses on Midway Island in the North Pacific ( click here ). Planning has now commenced towards their eventual eradication as reported in an...
Latest News has mentioned the World’s oldest known bird in no less than 25 news items over the last five years. Now back on Midway Atoll at an estimated age of 66, Wisdom the Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis just keeps going with yet another egg...
A pair of Vulnerable Short-tailed Albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus h as been photographed on Sand Island, part of the Midway National Wildlife Refuge ( click here ) . Sand Island's Short-tailed Albatross pair, photograph by Wieteke Holthuijzen...
ACAP Latest News has previously reported that introduced House Mice Mus musculus on Sand Island, part of the USA’s Midway Atoll in the North Pacific, had taken to attacking Laysan Phoebastria immutabilis and Black-footed P. nigripes Albatrosses in the...
of the US Fish & Wildlife Service In addition, 15 Black-footed Albatross P. nigripes chicks will be transferred from Midway Atoll to the James Campbell NWR inthe middle of next month and hand-reared along with their cousins ( click here ), with the aim...
ACAP Latest News has previously reported on plans to move Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes chicks from low-lying Midway Atoll to be artificially reared in the James Campbell Wildlife Refuge on Oahu. The aim of the project is to create a new...
as the man who first banded Wisdom , the 66+ year old Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis as an adult on the USA’s Midway Atoll way back in 1956 (I was then only nine). His resighting of the now colour-banded bird in 2002 led to Wisdom becoming...
Laysan Phoebastria immutabilis and Black-footed P. nigripes Albatrosses, as well as other seabirds, on such islands as Midway, Kure, Laysan, Lisianski and the French Frigate Shoals. Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument: original and expanded areas...
Hawaiian Islands. We estimated short-term effects of sudden flooding to bird communities using spatially explicit data from Midway Atoll and Laysan Island, Hawai'i. We describe variation in species vulnerability based on breeding phenology, nesting...
sky Just like a red balloon" ( click here ). Reference: Cooper, J. Auman, H.J. & Klavitter, J. 2004. Do the albatrosses of Midway Atoll select cigarette lighters by color? Pacific Seabirds 31: 2-4. John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 11 August 2017
An opportunity exists to study the foraging of albatrosses from Midway Atoll in the North Pacific. The atoll supports large populations of Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan P. immutabilis Albatrosses. Details follow. “We are looking for a...
the return of a young female Laysan Albatross, named Mālie (meaning “calm” or “serene” in the Hawaiian language), to Midway Atoll , an island the author has visited, after four years at sea. Mālie meets a male albatross called Kumukahi (”beginning” or...
musculus have taken to attacking breeding Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan P. immutabilis Albatrosses on USA’s Midway Atoll ( click here ). Mice are the sole rodent and non-native mammal present on the atoll since Black Rats Rattus rattus...
Phoebastria immutabilis considered to be at least 67 years old based on her band history, has returned once more to Midway Atoll in the North Pacific. “U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Refuge staff spotted Wisdom and her mate, Akeakamai, near their nest...
2017 15 globally Near Threatened Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes chicks were translocated by air from the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Reserve for hand rearing in the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on the Hawaiian island of Oahu....
bird, hatched her latest egg ( click here ) on 6 February this year. Wisdom and her mate Akeakamai of 12 years breed on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific; both are colour-banded to aid in identification. Wisdom with her 2018 chick, photograph by Bob...
breeding Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan P. immutabilis Albatrosses (both globally Near Threatened) on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific, causing widespread injury, nest abandonment and death ( click here ). Mouse attacks on Midway...
to have a children's book written about it. Wisdom the famous 60-something Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis of Midway Island was the first ( click here for the ALN review). Reference: Gill, Maria & Mouldey, Gavin 2017. Toroa’s Journey . Nelson:...
and even on a toothbrush found among breeding Wandering Albatrosses Diomedea exulans . Remains of an albatross corpse on Midway Atoll with a large number of ingested plastic bottle caps Plastic spoon and a latex balloon fragment removed from a Southern...
