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Wisdom is back! The world’s oldest known albatross is incubating once more on Midway Atoll
Wisdom incubates her latest egg last month, with her red Z333 colour band visible; photograph by Jon Brack, Friends of Midway Atoll NWR Following taking a ‘gap year’ in the 2019/20 breeding season, Wisdom, the world’s oldest known Laysan Albatross...
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The judges have decided: overall and category winners in the Great Albicake Bake Off for World Albatross Day
2021!); 3rd - Janine Schoombie & Karen Versteegh (‘Grey-headed Albatross Ridge, Marion Island’). Winner, Rainbow Theme: ‘Wisdom the Albatross Cake’ by Araks Ohanyan Araks Ohanyan’s ‘Wisdom the Albatross Cake’ wins this theme in honour of COVID-19 care...
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One for the young: the Albatross Colouring-in Competition will celebrate World Albatross Day
Orlando, she continues to exhibit her work both internationally and nationally. Kitty Harvill holds the children’s book on Wisdom the Laysan Albatross that she illustrated Kitty Harvill “I fell in love with Wisdom, the 68-year old Midway Laysan...
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Hawai’i Pacific University’s Pelagicos Lab supports World Albatross Day 2020
habitats. Albatross huggers Pelagicos graduate Ilana Nimz, David Golden & David Hyrenbach pose proudly with an image of Wisdom, Midway Atoll's 69-something Laysan Albatross Laysan Albatross – marine debris collage. Courtesy of Pelagicos graduate student...
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The conservation team on Midway Atoll helps advertise World Albatross Day
to look after there are two world-famous pairs of albatrosses to keep a watchful eyeover: 69-year old Laysan Albatross Wisdom and her mate Akeamakai (currently on a ‘gap year’) and George and Geraldine, the only Short-tailed Albatross pair that breeds...
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The latest chick of Short-tailed Albatrosses George and Geraldine on Midway Atoll is growing apace
chick Access past posts about George and Geraldine here. Midway Atoll 's other well-known albatross pair, 69-something Wisdom and mate Akeakamai, the Laysan Albatrosses P. immutabilis, are taking a 'gap year', having not laid an egg this season (click...
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A 40-year old Cory’s Shearwater recovered in South Africa is a new age record
ACAP-listed Balearic Shearwater P. mauretanicus is recorded as being only 12 years old. The oldest known seabird remains Wisdom, the 69+year Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis – still alive at last report. John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 03...
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Catching up with Wisdom: the oldest known albatrosses and petrels on Bird Island, South Atlantic
del Sur)*, adding to long-term datasets held by the British Antarctic Survey. Previous ACAP Latest News postings on Wisdom the female Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis of Midway Atoll, who reached the ripe old age of at least 69 this year,...
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The numbers are in: Midway Atoll’s latest Annual Albatross Nest Count approaches half a million breeding pairs
information to assess the long-term albatross population trends and ultimately the productive health of the ocean. As Wisdom has proven, albatrosses are long-lived species and can skip a year of breeding. Sexual maturity typically occurs at 8-10 years...
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Laysan Albatrosses Wisdom and Akeakamai are taking a gap year
By now regular readers of ACAP Latest News must know who Wisdom is, the famous 69-year old Laysan Albatross of Midway Atoll (see her ALN string). The last post had the pair returning to their usual nest site on Midway’s Sand Island in November, but no...
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