House mice (Mus musculus) – the same kind that may be in your residence – have started to attack and kill albatrosses, eating them alive as they sit on their nests. I’m an ecologist who’s been ...

The albatross is one of nature's most impressive flyers, soaring effortlessly over the ocean for days or weeks at a time, often without flapping its wings for hours. These majestic seabirds are built ...

Birds have fascinated humans for centuries with their graceful flight, inspiring countless studies and stories. Watching a ...

The world’s oldest known wild bird, 74, makes an annual pilgrimage to the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. But each ...

December, a friend and I walked the little Fish Creek Trail. At the side of the pond, a small gray bird was bobbing up and down on a gray rock — a dipper! A bit later, we saw it again, fossicking in ...

“Their numbers are dwindling,” Elliot observes. The people of wandering albatrosses that he examines have been diminishing at a 5-10 per cent rate per year since roughly 2005. Less ...

Parenting can be tough, even for the young and energetic, but one elderly albatross is about to go through it all again -- at ...

The world’s oldest known wild bird has sparked “special joy” among scientists after she laid an egg – her first in four years ...

Wisdom and her mate, Akeakamai, had returned to the atoll in the Pacific Ocean to lay and hatch eggs since 2006. Laysan ...

Laysan albatrosses mate for life and lay one egg per year, but according to the USFWS, Akeakamai hadn't been seen for several years, prompting "Wisdom to begin courtship dances with other males ...

“The next closest albatross to her age that we know of is 52 years old,” Plissner said, noting that albatrosses typically live about 12 to 40 years. “With Wisdom, a lot of it is plain luck ...