Those of us who work to save albatrosses and petreels do not do it only for their immediate survival, we do it so our children, and their children, can live in a World that continues to support these magnificent birds, and so that the generations that...
On 3 January 2010 the world's oldest known Laysan Albatross Phoebetria immutabilis , a banded female named "Wisdom", was sighted for the first time this breeding season on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Reserve in the USA's North-western Hawaiian...
"We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation on seabird biology, foraging ecology, energetics, physiology, population biology, systematics, genetics, conservation biology, fishery interactions, restoration ecology, or any...
Regular visitors to ACAP Latest News will have noticed from this year an irregular series of postings that deal with poetry that has an albatross or a petrel theme. Aside from the intrinsic interest of the verses the series has the serious aim of...
Education and increasing awareness is one of the basic aims of the Albatross and Petrel Agreement. Section 6 of ACAP's Action Plan calls for Parties to "seek to make local communities and the public in general more aware of the status of albatrosses...
For the second time ever, a Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus chick has hatched out away from a Japanese breeding colony. Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge welcomed its new chick on the morning of 12 January, the day after a visit to the...
This is a lovely true story about a Laysan Albatross who survives all the troubles of sea-life and lives to be at least 60 years old, which means she is the oldest living bird we know of. She gets a name, Wisdom. But then a tsunami washes over Midway...
It is not only Wisdom (a Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis still breeding on Midway Atoll at the estimated age of 62) and the late Grandma (a Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea sanfordi who bred for many years at Taiaroa Head in New Zealand and...
Wisdom , the World’s oldest-known Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis , now considered to be at least 64 years old and first banded as an adult in 1956, was sighted preening her mate (band number G000) on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge on...
‘Green Blue Red’ and ‘Yellow Blue Orange’ are currently the oldest Northern Royal Albatrosses Diomedea sanfordi on view from the observatory at the Royal Albatross Centre on Taiaroa Head near Dunedin, New Zealand ( click here ). The paired birds have...
Wisdom, a female Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis who is at least 64 years old ( click here ) laid her latest egg on 28 November on USA’s Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge . Her mate since at least 2012 (“Mr Goo”, named after his...
Wisdom, a female Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis who is at least 65 years old has hatched her latest egg on 1 February on the USA’s Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (well actually her partner had been incubating since 20 January when the...
The passing of Chandler Seymour ‘Chan’ Robbins (17 July 1918 - 20 March 2017) this week is a sad loss to ornithology Chandler Robbins’ long career (he lived to 98 years of age and worked well into his retirement years as a volunteer with the U.S....
Regular readers of ACAP Latest News will not be surprised to hear that as ACAP’s honorary Information Officer I have a good collection of books on procellariiform seabirds in my personal library – helpful as I research articles for the ACAP website....
Wisdom, the famous Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis who is the world’s oldest known wild bird, has returned once more to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the USA’s North Western Hawaiian Islands to commence the 2018/19 breeding season....
Wisdom, the Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis who is the world’s oldest known wild bird, has returned once more to the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the USA’s North Western Hawaiian Islands for the 2018/19 breeding season. She was...
Five artists who have depicted albatrosses in their outputs come together to support next year’s inaugural World Albatross Day on 19 June. Examples of their works and their statements in support of World Albatross Day follow. Kitty Harvill “I fell in...
