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Wisdom is back and breeding with a new mate!
“Wisdom and her mate talk to their newly laid egg" ACAP Latest News has reported many times over the years on the fortunes of Wisdom, the 70-something Laysan Albatross Phoebastrai immutabilis – and the world’s oldest known wild bird – on her home of...
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Rescued: an albatross far from home
like this young Black-browed from getting killed when interacting with our fisheries. To me, albatrosses embody freedom, wisdom and untamed wildness. They rule the skies over the open oceans and remote islands, and I feel privileged to be part of...
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THE ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. An appreciation: Kitty Harvill and Artists & Biologists Unite for Nature
Making a connection. ABUN Co-founder Kitty Harvill, who illustrated Wisdom the Midway Albatross Back in 2012, I had reviewed for ACAP Latest News (by a then nine-year-old) a new book for children about Wisdom, the now 70-something Laysan Albatross...
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Wisdom, the world’s oldest known Laysan Albatross, still has it – engaging in mutual displays into her 70s
Wisdom (right) displays with another Laysan Albatross, 18 March 2024 Wisdom, a Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge’s Sand Island, is the world’s oldest known wild bird. Now into her 70s, she was sighted...
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George and Geraldine, the lone Short-tailed Albatross pair on Midway Atoll, have a new chick
Short-tailed Albatross has been recorded this season near the forest’s edge on the north-east side of Midway’s Sand Island. Wisdom (Red Z333, left) with an unbanded male on Midway Atoll, 25 December 2023, photograph by Nick Minnich Meanwhile Wisdom, the...
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She's back! Wisdom, the seventy-something Laysan Albatross, dances in another season on Midway Atoll
Getting him up on his toes. Wisdom (left, with her colour band on show) engages in a mutual display with a metal-banded bird, photograph by Jon Plissner, USFWS, 03 December 2023 Wisdom, a female Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, who is the...
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A Storybook Trail is opened to mark World Albatross Day 2023 with a sculpture of Wisdom, the Laysan Albatross
The first stop on the Wisdom Storybook Trail, Bel-Aire Park, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA The Clarksville Arts & Heritage Council, in partnership with Clarksville Parks & Recreation, unveiled their Storybook Trail at Bel-Aire Park in Clarksville,...
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The ACAP MONTHLY MISSIVE. A reflection on growing old with albatrosses
be behind him, as successful breeding is difficult in older males and his last breeding partner has not seen since 2014.” Wisdom (red Z333) the Laysan Albatross returns to Midway Atoll on 24 November 2022, one of her most recent photographs by Keegan...
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Wisdom, the world’s oldest known Laysan Albatross, is a grandmother once again
Wisdom’s son, red N333, broods its second hatchling in February 2023, photograph by Catie Mahon, USFWS While searching on Sand Island, Midway Atoll for the highly invasive Golden Crownbeard Verbesina encelioides U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
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Wisdom the 71-year-old Laysan Albatross returns to Midway, but is unlikely to breed this season
Wisdom, easily identified by her red colour band Z333, Midway Atoll, 24 November 2022. Photograph by Keegan Rankin, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wisdom, a female Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, the world’s oldest known wild bird, was...