Ten years ago this year I spent four months on Midway Atoll (Pihemanu Kuaihelani) in the northwest Hawaiian Islands working as a volunteer biological science technician. Our main focus was reproductive success and longevity monitoring. Next week, I’m heading back to Midway as part of a team that will perform the annual albatross census. Midway is home to the largest breeding colony of Laysan albatross and every year since 1991 there has been a census to record their numbers. The video below is from my first time there. Stay tuned for updates from the island of the albatross…
Wow! The noise they make…all that clacking. Very attentive pair.
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