Past studies of albatross diets relied largely on analysis ... “We were surprised because we had expected adults would prefer fish to low energy-value jellyfish when feeding their offspring ...

The world-famous Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) was spotted caring for her newest chick at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the North Pacific Ocean this month. Dan Rapp, a ...

Inside the slight skeleton of one albatross, we found bottle tops and ... and are eaten by fish. The fish then get eaten by "apex predators" higher up the food chain -- including humans, or ...

Photo from Dan Rapp, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service volunteer The oldest known banded wild bird is now the mother to yet another chick — in her 70s. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross sometimes called ...

The Laysan Albatross was first banded (or marked ... supervisory wildlife biologist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, told NPR of the unlikely odds for a bird like Wisdom.

The egg recently hatched to Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, who resides at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in Honolulu, Hawaii. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFW) Columbia Pacific ...

Lead-based paint at federal facilities on Midway Atoll kills up to 10,000 Laysan albatross chicks each year and also threatens the endangered Laysan duck. As a result of a settlement with the Center, ...

The proventriculus removes the water and turns the fish oils and meat into a concentrated mixture for the albatross parents to feed their chicks. So, whatever the parents eat, the chick will also ...