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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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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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