http://www.fws.gov/midway/whatsnew.html


    What's New

Midway Fee Schedule 
<2011%20Midway%20Atoll%20NWR%20Fee%20Schedule%20Eff%2010-1-2011.pdf> - 
Effective October 1, 2011

Lead Paint Abatement <lpa.html> (July 2010)

*She's Back!* (December 2, 2011)

On December 1, the world's oldest Laysan albatross, a female named 
"Wisdom", was sighted by a Fish and Wildlife Service biologist for the 
first time this breeding season nesting on Midway Atoll National 
Wildlife Refuge. Having survived the tsunami generated by Japan's 
earthquakes last March, Wisdom has returned along with her mate. She was 
observed in her normal location behind the Bravo Barracks and was 
proudly incubating an egg.  Wisdom is at least 61 years old.  She was 
banded as a nesting adult in the same location by Chan Robbins in 
December 1956.  Robbins estimated that the bird was a minimum of 5 years 
old at the time.

The oldest albatross in the world appears to be a northern royal 
albatross which was located on the South Island of New Zealand and was 
named "Grandma."  She reached a banded age of 51.5 years and probable 
actual age of 61+ years.



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