In 2000 I visited Midway Atoll in the North Pacific on an excursion after the Second International Conference on the Biology and Conservation of Albatrosses and other Petrels that had been held in Honolulu, Hawaii in May that year. While on the island...
Following its successful breeding last season on Eastern Island, Midway Atoll the Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus pair is back this month, with the male currently incubating. Visit "Pete at Midway " · to see a photo of the male on its egg...
season. Estimates of all demographic rates except recruitment were similar to estimates for Laysan Albatrosses from Midway in the 1960s despite differences in methodology. This information can help measurepopulation dynamics, breeding population sizes,...
for spatial management of large marine ecosystems." Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses flying along the shoreline at Midway Atoll Photograph by Eric Vanderwerf From an on-line report on the Nature article in Birdwatch magazine: "Laysan and Black-footed...
'Wisdom' (Red Z333), the now 61-year old female Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis , is back on the USA's Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge , incubating an egg in her normal location behind Bravo Barracks on Sand Island. She was sighted and...
to post his mele or oli (a chant or song), and its translation, produced in honour of Wisdom A. Laysan Albatross of the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge , and to Wisdom herself for making the connection. John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 6...
North Pacific. Occasionally odd-looking birds are seen that are deemed to be hybrids between the two species. Pete Leary, Midway Atoll Wildlife Biologist, reports that currently there are at least four such hybrids on Midway Atoll's Sand Island, two of...
10 post-guard phase chicks of two related species in 2006-2007: Laysan Albatross P. immutabilis translocated from Midway Atoll to Kaua'i Island, Hawai'i and Black-footed Albatross P. nigripes translocated from a nearby islet in the Ogasawara (Bonin)...
immutabilis to illustrate a children's book to be published next February. The 32-page book, entitled Wisdom, the Midway Albatross: Surviving the Japanese Tsunami and Other Disasters for Over 60 Years , has been written by noted children's author Darcy...
wooden statue of a Laysan Albatross or "gooney" P. immutabilis standing over its egg resides alongside Nimitz Avenue near Midway Mall on Sand Island, part of the USA's Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge . Photograph from U. S. Fish and Wildlife...
Service is continuing systematic shoreline monitoring and removal of beached debris on Sand and Eastern Islands on the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge every 28 days. Similar clean-ups have been taking place on Kure Atoll farther to the west, where...
A. Laysan Albatross , the now-famous 61-year-old Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis currently breeding on the USA's Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, as its mascot (see Wisdom's Ocean Zone ). Wisdom with her 2011 chick on Midway Photograph by...
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 atoll's...
off Chile John Klavitter, Greg Schubert, Leona Laniawe & Pete Leary. Historical account of Short-tailed Albatrosses at Midway Atoll NationalWildlife Refuge including a successful social attraction project where a chick successfully fledged during the...
Munch, was nursed back to health, flown to Honolulu and released by the U.S. Coast Guard into a colony of its peers on Midway Island." ( click here ). Laysan Albatrosses score birdies on golf courses on Kauai On Kauai (one of the Hawaiian high islands)...
Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group , being held on Oahu, Hawaii, USA this week. The Bryan's Shearwater found on Midway Atoll in 1991 Photograph by Reginald David It looks like the World's latest seabird species breeds on Japan's Ogasawara...
within the region, and one of them, on Kure Atoll, is a female-female pair that lays infertile eggs. The second pair, on Midway Atoll, is currently rearing its second chick. There are a number of other seabirds that breed within the islands, including a...
"The Journey to Midway media project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their...
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 Island and the scientists don't know if she has survived or not. 110 000 chicks and 2000 adults dead. Where was her chick?...
levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Black-footed Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan P . immutabilis Albatrosses on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific. The paper's abstract follows: "Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are ubiquitous chemicals that...
