Video: Dancing Laysan Albatrosses: These are Teenagers, widows, widowers, or divorcees. Teenagers in that they have not paired yet, widows or widowers in that their mates have died, or divorcees in that after several unsuccessful attempts to have offspring, they split assuming the problem is with the other. The un-paired birds spend much of their time during about a six month period dancing. If the paring works well they will mate next season.
Sand Island, Midway Atoll
Video: Dancing Black-footed Albatrosses: These are Teenagers, widows, widowers, or divorcees. Teenagers in that they have not paired yet, widows or widowers in that their mates have died, or divorcees in that after several unsuccessful attempts to have offspring, they split assuming the problem is with the other. The un-paired birds spend much of their time during about a six month period dancing. If the paring works well they will mate next season.
Sand Island, Midway Atoll
Video: Hybrid Laysan/Black-footed Albatross trying to dance with Laysan Albatrosses: This bird looks closer to a Laysan but dances closer to a Black-footed. In any case it can't find a mate.
Sand Island, Midway Atoll
Video: Feeding Laysan and Black-footed Albatross chicks
Sand Island, Midway Atoll
Video: Laysan Albatrosses taking off on the beach: This is literally a runway. The albatrosses run as fast as they can to help get into the air.
Sand Island, Midway Atoll
Short-billed Dowitcher
Sandy Hook, NJ
Short-billed Dowitcher
Sandy Hook, NJ
Common Tern with a fish
Sandy Hook, NJ
Common Tern with a fish and mate
Sandy Hook, NJ
Least Tern with chick
Sandy Hook, NJ
Least Tern parents feeding chick
Sandy Hook, NJ
