Elphinstone, Victoria: Waterhole Publications. 47 pp. ISBN 0-646-24-112-5. Pattison, Darcy & Harvill, Kitty 2012. Wisdom the Midway Albatross: Surviving the Japanese Tsunami and other Disasters for over 60 Years. Little Rock: Mims House. 28 pp. ISBN...
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...
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...
individual albatrosses can live for many decades. Previous news items on this web site have highlighted two “60-plussers”, Wisdom the Laysan Albatross Phoebetria immutabilis (still with us) and the late Grandma, a Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea...
the black-browed albatross Thalassarche melanophris , nesting in contrasting environments. According to conventional wisdom, it is exceptional for albatrosses (Diomedeidae) to moult while breeding. Here we show that black-browed albatrosses breeding on...
Wisdom the famous Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis of Midway Atoll in the North Pacific laid her latest egg on 29 November 2013 - exactly a year and one day since she laid her egg in 2012. Wisdom is thought to be the oldest banded wild bird in...
Wisdom the famous 63-year-old Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis of the Midway Atoll Wildlife Refuge has successfully hatched her egg on 4 February ( click here ). “As the world’s oldest known bird in the wild, Wisdom is an iconic symbol of...
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...
who reached an estimated 60 years ( click here ). The late Grandma has now been surpassed in the extreme age stakes by Wisdom, a well-known Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis on Midway Atoll, now breeding once more in what is thought to be her...
ACAP Latest News has regularly reported on Midway Atoll’s Wisdom, a Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis , the World’s oldest known albatross calculated to be at least 63 years old ( click here ). Wisdom and her partner have bred successfully in...
Regular readers of ACAP Latest News will know of Wisdom the 60-something Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis , the oldest known albatross in the World ( click here ). Wisdom, a female first banded on the USA’s Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge...
