World’s oldest known seabird is expecting — again ADVERTISING World’s oldest known seabird is expecting — again HONOLULU (AP) — Biologists spotted the Laysan albatross called Wisdom, the world’s oldest known seabird, at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge earlier this
World’s oldest known seabird is expecting — again
HONOLULU (AP) — Biologists spotted the Laysan albatross called Wisdom, the world’s oldest known seabird, at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge earlier this month after she returned to the island to nest.
She was incubating an egg at the same nest she uses each year with her mate. She’s thought to be 66 years old. She’s also the world’s oldest known breeding bird in the wild.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s project leader for the refuge, Bob Peyton, said in a statement Friday that Wisdom has been returning to Midway for more than six decades.
An ornithologist first put an identification band on her in 1956. She’s had a few dozen chicks.
Seabirds fledge after successful relocation effort
LIHUE, Kauai (AP) — An effort to relocate endangered Hawaiian seabirds has been an “enormous success” so far, according to people and organizations involved with the project.
The last of 20 petrels brought to a 7.8-acre Nihoku colony this fall fledged and flew safely out to sea.
The planned five-year relocation involves moving the seabirds and Newell’s shearwaters to a predator-proof enclosure at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on the northwest coast of Kauai.
The birds were collected from the island’s mountainous interior, where they are threatened by introduced predators and the loss of breading habitat. Collisions with power lines and attraction to artificial lights also can be dangerous to the petrels.
A total of 36 endangered and threatened birds have fledged throughout the program’s two years.
Woman charged in twin’s death OKs extradition
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A woman accused of killing her twin sister by driving their SUV off a cliff in Hawaii cleared the way for her extradition from upstate New York.
Alexandria Duval waived her right to an extradition hearing Friday in an Albany court. Duval’s lawyer says she wants to get back to Hawaii and defend herself against a second-degree murder charge. She is expected to head to Hawaii in the next few weeks.
Authorities in Hawaii say Duval was driving an SUV in May with her sister, Anastasia, in the passenger seat when the vehicle crashed into a rock wall and plunged about 200 feet.
The 38-year-old traveled to upstate New York after an initial indictment was dismissed earlier this year.
She was arrested in Albany last month.
