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...
"Wisdom" is the name given to a Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis banded as a breeding adult while it was incubating an egg on USA's Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge by Chandler Robbins of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in December...
has survived, although once more it had to found (this time 35 m away) and carried back to its nest cup. It also seems that Wisdom, the 60-year female Laysan and her chick on Sand Island ( click here ) made it through the tsunami. On Laysan Island,...
higher than that for Laysan Albatrosses. The Refuge has recently become known for its two "celebrity" albatrosses: 'Wisdom', perhaps the oldest confirmed wild bird in the world, and the Short-tailed Albatross chick on Midway's Eastern Island, which was...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on 21 March that "Wisdom" the 60-year-old Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis , has returned to feed its chick on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, thus surviving the tsunami that has killed so...
Albatrosses P. albatrus , shortly to fledge their chick ( click here ). Another famous albatross on Midway is the Laysan ‘ Wisdom ', now over 60 years old and whose latest chick was banded recently. "Refuge volunteers banded one chick- that of Wisdom,...
'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...
language and celebrate the long life of a now 61-year old Laysan Albatross or Mōlī Phoebetria immutabilis , known as Wisdom. Kaha ka mōlī maliʻu i ka laʻi Holo mālie i ke ao hoʻomakua He makua paʻamua i ke one neʻineʻi I ō a i ʻaneʻi i ka moana nui The...
Phoebastria 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...
swirling in our oceans and threatening sea-life across the globe". To support the campaign the Volvo Ocean Race has adopted Wisdom A. Laysan Albatross , the now-famous 61-year-old Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis currently breeding on the USA's...
Midway in due time - as of course is hoped. Meanwhile the world's oldest known Laysan Albatross P. immutabilis , known as "Wisdom" and who is currently breeding once more on Midway's Sand Island, may, if it breeds successfully as it did last year (...
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 Island and the scientists don't know if she has survived or not. 110 000 chicks and...
Wisdom, the now 62-year old Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis , is once more back on Sand Island in the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and has laid her latest egg, now being incubated by her partner. Following a query earlier this week...
