Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

Tsunami death toll for Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses on Midway Atoll increases to over a hundred thousand birds

higher than that for Laysan Albatrosses. The Refuge has recently become known for its two "celebrity" albatrosses: 'Wisdom', perhaps the oldest confirmed wild bird in the world, and the Short-tailed Albatross chick on Midway's Eastern Island, which was...
SECOND UPDATE: Hawaii's Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses suffered heavy losses in last week's tsunami

has survived, although once more it had to found (this time 35 m away) and carried back to its nest cup. It also seems that Wisdom, the 60-year female Laysan and her chick on Sand Island (click here) made it through the tsunami. On Laysan Island, waves...
Wisdom catches up with Grandma! A 60-year-old Laysan Albatross rears its chick on Midway Atoll UPDATED

"Wisdom" is the name given to a Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis banded as a breeding adult while it was incubating an egg on USA's Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge by Chandler Robbins of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in December...
Who is the world's oldest albatross? Wisdom is now catching up with the late Grandma! UPDATED

On 3 January 2010 the world's oldest known Laysan Albatross Phoebetria immutabilis, a banded female named "Wisdom", was sighted for the first time this breeding season on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Reserve in the USA's North-western Hawaiian...
Children's books and fictional accounts on albatrosses and petrels

Elphinstone, Victoria: Waterhole Publications. 47 pp. ISBN 0-646-24-112-5. Pattison, Darcy & Harvill, Kitty 2012. Wisdom the Midway Albatross: Surviving the Japanese Tsunami and other Disasters for over 60 Years. Little Rock: Mims House. 28 pp. ISBN...

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Tsunami death toll for Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses on Midway Atoll increases to over a hundred thousand birds

SECOND UPDATE: Hawaii's Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses suffered heavy losses in last week's tsunami

Wisdom catches up with Grandma! A 60-year-old Laysan Albatross rears its chick on Midway Atoll UPDATED

Who is the world's oldest albatross? Wisdom is now catching up with the late Grandma! UPDATED

Children's books and fictional accounts on albatrosses and petrels

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

Tsunami death toll for Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses on Midway Atoll increases to over a hundred thousand birds

SECOND UPDATE: Hawaii's Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses suffered heavy losses in last week's tsunami

Wisdom catches up with Grandma! A 60-year-old Laysan Albatross rears its chick on Midway Atoll UPDATED

Who is the world's oldest albatross? Wisdom is now catching up with the late Grandma! UPDATED

Children's books and fictional accounts on albatrosses and petrels

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels