Date:
Sun, 03/16/2014 - 13:00
An estimated 1 million albatrosses nest each year on tiny Midway Atoll, making it an ideal place for UCSC seabird researcher W. Breck Tyler to have studied the creatures. In today's presentation, "The Albatrosses of Midway: Ecology and Conservation of Pacific Ocean Wanderers," Tyler draws on 20 years of research to give the audience the lowdown on these remarkable birds, which spend most of their lives at sea. Fun fact: the oldest wild bird in the Northern Hemisphere (as far as anyone knows) is "Wisdom," a female Laysan albatross that hatched a chick in 2011 at the estimated age of 60.
2011 photo of Wisdom with her chick by John Klavitter/USFWS
