At the far end of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands lies Kuaihelani – also known as Midway Atoll – a small set of islands ...

That is handled by a new company, the Midway Phoenix Corporation, one-half of an admirable experiment in partnership between government and business. Albatross own the islands On Sand, Spit and ...

Wisdom, the 74-year-old Laysan albatross hailed as the world's oldest known wild bird, has laid her first egg in four years at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. According to Forbes ...

low-lying Midway atoll. The sanctuary is home to more than two million birds. One lucky survivor was Wisdom, an albatross about 60 years of age, who is the oldest-known bird in the US. The Laysan ...

The oldest known bird in the wild, a Laysan albatross on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, is believed to be at least 74. The short-tailed albatross has a wingspan of more than 2 meters and ...

The long-winged seabird named Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the northwestern edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago and laid what experts estimate may ...

Adult Tristan albatross are threatened by longline ... the highest threat level before extinction. Gough Island, a British territory almost midway between Argentina and South Africa, is a place ...

Before 1996, when Midway Atoll was opened to the public ... In late November, the skies are filled with Laysan and black-footed albatross, the atoll's dominant species, as several hundred thousand ...

“These birds live as long as we do,” Harrison explained. “I am 78 years of age and there’s a laysan albatross, on Midway Island at the moment, perhaps the most celebrated bird in the world, she’s ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN ... CNN visited the island in June -- the time of year when the Laysan albatross lay their chicks, who must learn to fly, or die. But part of it is ...

The sun shimmered on Midway Islands, a remote speck of reef halfway ... the world’s largest albatross colony, sea turtles, spinner dolphins, and rare ducks. Obama entered a shallow sea moving ...