POIPU >> When a moli, or Laysan albatross, took its first flight from the hotel grounds of The Point at Poipu Kauai on July 9, Hob Osterlund was thrilled. “She was just over five months old,” said ...
Wisdom, the Laysan albatross, has outlived several mating partners and even the biologist who first tagged her in 1956 In late November, someone spotted an albatross sitting atop an egg she'd laid on ...
The oldest known banded wild bird is now the mother to yet another chick — in her 70s. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross sometimes called the “the queen of seabirds,” has a new chick, Friends of Midway Atoll ...
This YouTube clip, released in 2019 as part of a BBC documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough, is so heartbreaking that it reduced many viewers to tears. Many people expressed their distress on ...
Wisdom is thriving in America — Wisdom the albatross, that is. The Laysan albatross is now at least 74 years old, and she recently laid an egg at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the ...
Wisdom, a Laysan albatross believed to be the world’s oldest wild bird, has returned again to the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday. Wisdom, ...
Wild birds are shown at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Photo from Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge's Facebook post A wild bird that “miraculously” survived a tsunami in the ...
Birds are often synonymous with grace, elegance and agility. But one clumsy albatross might have just ruined this illusion. In a live stream shared online, a northern royal albatross in New Zealand ...
In late November, someone spotted an albatross sitting atop an egg she'd laid on a tiny North Pacific island, just one bird among the millions that return to the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge ...