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 ...
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 ...
It comes after the wild seabird successfully laid an egg last year for the first time in four years. The post World’s oldest ...
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 ...
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 ...
This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Steffen Oppel remembers ...
A wild bird that “miraculously” survived a tsunami in the Pacific that’s estimated to have wiped out thousands of other chicks is now tending to a chick of his own, a volunteer group said. The Laysan ...