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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Wisdom the famous Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis of Midway Atoll in the North Pacific laid her latest egg on 29 November 2013 - exactly a year and one day since she laid her egg in 2012. Wisdom is thought to be the oldest banded wild bird in...
the black-browed albatross Thalassarche melanophris, nesting in contrasting environments. According to conventional wisdom, it is exceptional for albatrosses (Diomedeidae) to moult while breeding. Here we show that black-browed albatrosses breeding on...
individual albatrosses can live for many decades. Previous news items on this web site have highlighted two “60-plussers”, Wisdom the Laysan Albatross Phoebetria immutabilis (still with us) and the late Grandma, a Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea...