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Midway Atoll’s albatross ground count reveals over 600 000 pairs are breeding in the 2025/26 season – but will the volunteers be replaced by drones and temporal image differencing?
them mutually allopreening), along with several of their offspring returning as juveniles. “USFWS staff have confirmed that Wisdom [the world’s oldest-known Laysan Albatross] did not lay an egg this year, though she has been visiting Midway Atoll,...
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Wisdom, the septuagenarian Laysan Albatross, is not breeding this season
Wisdom (Z333, right) with her current mate red EX25 in November 2025, photograph by Dan Rapp US Fish & Wildlife Service staff based on Midway Atoll have confirmed that Wisdom, the world’s oldest known Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, now in...
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N333: the next generation. The 2017 chick of Wisdom, the oldest known Laysan Albatross, is back on Midway incubating
\Wisdom’s offspring N333 shows its egg and colour band on 06 December 2025, photograph by Dan Rapp Wisdom the well-known seventy something Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis on Midway Atoll is back for the new breeding season as recently reported...
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UPDATE: Wisdom is back, and so is her mate
Wisdom shows her well-known red colour band Z333, photograph by Jon Plissner, USFWS UPDATE: "This year’s return marks a slightly earlier arrival for Wisdom compared to recent seasons. Refuge staff are delighted to announce her mate has arrived on...
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Latest news on Wisdom’s ‘Ohana, the world’s oldest known Laysan Albatross and her family
Wisdom’s 2024/25 chick. April 2025, photograph by Dan Rapp The following edited news article written by Ann Bell for the Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge gives information on the current offspring of Wisdom, the atoll’s Layan Albatross...
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Wisdom the grandmother Laysan Albatross is a mum again
Wisdom and her latest mate stand and vocalize over their 2024/25 egg on 27 November 2024, photograph by Dan Rapp, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Volunteer 70-something Wisdom, the world’s oldest known Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutibilis, is once...
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Wisdom’s son N333 is incubating an egg once more
N333, son of Wisdom, broods its second known hatchling in February 2023, photograph by Catie Mahon, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Volunteer Wisdom’s (the world’s oldest known Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis) first banded chick fledged from...
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Wisdom is back and breeding with a new mate!
“Wisdom and her mate talk to their newly laid egg" ACAP Latest News has reported many times over the years on the fortunes of Wisdom, the 70-something Laysan Albatross Phoebastrai immutabilis – and the world’s oldest known wild bird – on her home of...
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Rescued: an albatross far from home
like this young Black-browed from getting killed when interacting with our fisheries. To me, albatrosses embody freedom, wisdom and untamed wildness. They rule the skies over the open oceans and remote islands, and I feel privileged to be part of...
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THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. An appreciation: Kitty Harvill and Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature
Making a connection. ABUN Co-founder Kitty Harvill, who illustrated Wisdom the Midway Albatross Back in 2012, I had reviewed for ACAP Latest News (by a then nine-year-old) a new book for children about Wisdom, the now 70-something Laysan Albatross...
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