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'Wisdom' (Red Z333), the now 61-year old female Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, is back on the USA's Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, incubating an egg in her normal location behind Bravo Barracks on Sand Island. She was sighted and...
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- Author: John Cooper
- Category: 2011 News Archive
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Albatrosses P. albatrus, shortly to fledge their chick (click here). Another famous albatross on Midway is the Laysan ‘Wisdom', now over 60 years old and whose latest chick was banded recently. "Refuge volunteers banded one chick- that of Wisdom,...
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- Author: John Cooper
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on 21 March that "Wisdom" the 60-year-old Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis, has returned to feed its chick on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, thus surviving the tsunami that has killed so many...
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- Author: John Cooper
- Category: 2011 News Archive
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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...
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- Author: John Cooper
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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...
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- Author: John Cooper
- Category: 2011 News Archive
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"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...
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- Author: John Cooper
- Category: 2011 News Archive
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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...
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- Author: John Cooper
- Category: 2010 News Archive
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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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- Author: John Cooper
- Category: UPDATED. Publications on ACAP Species
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