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Albatross artist Kitty Harvill to receive the prestigious Simon Combes Conservation Artist Award for 2022
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...
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An apparently stable albatross population is actually decreasing due to mouse predation
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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Wisdom’s "grandchick" gets a meal – watch the video!
N333 broods its chick; photograph by Daniel Rapp ACAP Latest News has regularly reported over the last decade or so on Wisdom, the world’s oldest-known Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, who at the age of at least 70 continues to visit and breed...
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Wisdom, the world’s oldest known albatross, gets a grandchick
Wisdom's 2011 chick, marked with band number N333, survived the March 2011 tsunami on Midway Atoll and was sighted the first time on a nest of its own in December 2021, photograph by Dan Rapp Wisdom, a female Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis...
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Wisdom, the oldest known Laysan Albatross, returns to Midway Atoll in her eighth decade
Wisdom (Red Z333) on her nest site Wisdom, the female Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, who is the world’s oldest known banded wild bird, has been seen back on the USA’s Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the North Pacific. With an...
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Featuring ACAP-listed species and their photographers: the Laysan Albatross by Hob Osterlund
when we were in the field, Beth suggested I start a volunteer organization for Mōlī advocacy. Ever obedient to Beth’s wisdom, I founded the Kauai Albatross Network not long after that. I already knew some private landowners with mōlī on their...
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Marine ornithologists and conservationists around the world are supporting the Mouse-Free Marion Project
to threats such as industrial fishing, invasive predators and marine pollution”. Beth Flint poses with a model of Wisdom, the Laysan Albatross, the world’s oldest known wild bird Elizabeth (Beth) Flint is a Supervisory Wildlife Biologist with Marine...
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A new music video featuring all the ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels is released to mark World Albatross Day
of the serious plight that many albatross populations continue to face. Kitty Harvill, with the book she illustrated about Wisdom, the world’s oldest known albatross Kitty writes “as a conservation artist, I feel it relates to all areas of my life –...
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Well done George and Geraldine! Midway Atoll’s sole Short-tailed Albatross chick is soon to fledge
Watch the video here. George and Geraldine’s latest chick was banded recently (click here). Meanwhile, the latest chick of Wisdom, the well-known Laysan Albatross P. immutabilis, and her mate Akeakamai, is also doing well on Midway (watch video). John...
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70-something Laysan Albatross Wisdom hatches her latest egg on Midway
Wisdom‘s newest chick shortly after hatching with Akeakamai, Wisdom’s current partner By now, even irregular readers of ACAP Latest News should have heard of Wisdom, the 70-something Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis on Midway Atoll. She is the...
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