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Review: A Perfect Day for an Albatross, a book for young children by Caren Loebel-Fried
toothbrushes and the like. Bryan Knowles’ Where Albatrosses Soar relates a story told in rhyme by a father to his son. Wisdom the Midway Albatross by Darcy Pattison with illustrations by Kitty Harvill is about the world's oldest known Laysan Albatross,...
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Obituary: Chandler Robbins, the ornithologist who banded Wisdom, the World’s oldest known albatross, passes away at 98
days From the perspective of the Albatross and Petrel Agreement Chandler Robbins is well known as the man who first banded Wisdom, the 66+ year old Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis as an adult on the USA’s Midway Atoll way back in 1956 (I was...
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Wisdom, the 66-year Laysan Albatross, returns yet again to Midway and lays her latest egg
known bird in no less than 25 news items over the last five years. Now back on Midway Atoll at an estimated age of 66, Wisdom the Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis just keeps going with yet another egg laid, following on from at least nine chicks...
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Wisdom, the oldest known Laysan Albatross, hatches her latest egg on Midway Atoll
Wisdom, a female Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis who is at least 65 years old has hatched her latest egg on 1 February on the USA’s Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (well actually her partner had been incubating since 20 January when the...
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Wisdom, the 64-year old Laysan Albatross lays an egg on Midway and goes back to sea
Wisdom, a female Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis who is at least 64 years old (click here) laid her latest egg on 28 November on USA’s Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Her mate since at least 2012 (“Mr Goo”, named after his colour-band...
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Will you still love me when I'm 64? Wisdom the Laysan Albatross is back on Midway Atoll for another season
Regular readers of ACAP Latest News will know of Wisdom the 60-something Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, the oldest known albatross in the World (click here). Wisdom, a female first banded on the USA’s Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in...
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Wisdom, the World’s oldest and most well-known albatross, loses her egg on Midway Atoll
ACAP Latest News has regularly reported on Midway Atoll’s Wisdom, a Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, the World’s oldest known albatross calculated to be at least 63 years old (click here). Wisdom and her partner have bred successfully in the...
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Twenty-seven-year-old Northern Royal Albatross pair at Taiaroa Head incubates its 10th egg
who reached an estimated 60 years (click here). The late Grandma has now been surpassed in the extreme age stakes by Wisdom, a well-known Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis on Midway Atoll, now breeding once more in what is thought to be her 64th...
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Sixty-something Wisdom the Laysan Albatross returns to Midway for yet another breeding season
Wisdom, the World’s oldest-known Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, now considered to be at least 64 years old and first banded as an adult in 1956, was sighted preening her mate (band number G000) on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge on 22...
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Wisdom, 63-year-old Laysan Albatross, hatches her latest egg
Wisdom the famous 63-year-old Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis of the Midway Atoll Wildlife Refuge has successfully hatched her egg on 4 February (click here). “As the world’s oldest known bird in the wild, Wisdom is an iconic symbol of...
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