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...
Wisdom (right) displays with another Laysan Albatross, 18 March 2024 Wisdom, a Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge’s Sand Island, is the world’s oldest known wild bird. Now into her 70s, she was sighted...
Short-tailed Albatross has been recorded this season near the forest’s edge on the north-east side of Midway’s Sand Island. Wisdom (Red Z333, left) with an unbanded male on Midway Atoll, 25 December 2023, photograph by Nick Minnich Meanwhile Wisdom, the...
Getting him up on his toes. Wisdom (left, with her colour band on show) engages in a mutual display with a metal-banded bird, photograph by Jon Plissner, USFWS, 03 December 2023 Wisdom, a female Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, who is the...
The first stop on the Wisdom Storybook Trail, Bel-Aire Park, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA The Clarksville Arts & Heritage Council, in partnership with Clarksville Parks & Recreation, unveiled their Storybook Trail at Bel-Aire Park in Clarksville,...
be behind him, as successful breeding is difficult in older males and his last breeding partner has not seen since 2014.” Wisdom (red Z333) the Laysan Albatross returns to Midway Atoll on 24 November 2022, one of her most recent photographs by Keegan...
Wisdom’s son, red N333, broods its second hatchling in February 2023, photograph by Catie Mahon, USFWS While searching on Sand Island, Midway Atoll for the highly invasive Golden Crownbeard Verbesina encelioides U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
Wisdom, easily identified by her red colour band Z333, Midway Atoll, 24 November 2022. Photograph by Keegan Rankin, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wisdom, a female Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, the world’s oldest known wild bird, was...
Kitty Harvill holds the book she illustrated on Wisdom, the world’s oldest known albatross Kitty Harvill, Co-founder of Artist and Biologists Unite for Nature (ABUN) and valued ACAP supporter, is to be recognized for her contribution to art and...
largest flying birds in the world, and they can get incredibly old. A female Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis named Wisdom who was first banded >65 years ago is still breeding today. Albatrosses achieve this long life by reproducing very slowly...
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