331 Free Images of Birds Of Midway Atoll

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Laysan Albatross on Midway Atoll

Debris and Injured Birds in Lagoon at Midway Atoll

Debris and Injured Birds in Lagoon at Midway Atoll-1

Laysan Duck pair on Eastern Island on Midway Atoll

Short-tailed Albatross nesting at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge,
Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
January 2012

Photo: USFWS

Red-footed Booby, Sula Sula

Red-footed Booby, Sula Sula

Red-footed Booby, Sula Sula, on nest

US Navy 100602-N-7498L-021 More than a million Laysan Albatrosses occupy the entire Midway atoll

Fish and Wildlife Service biologists used these short-tailed albatross decoys to help attract some of the critically endangered birds to Midway Atoll. The chick on the left is a Laysan albatross. The

Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
March 2012

Photo: Noah Kahn/USFWS

Male Laysan duck on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Photo by: E.J. Peiker/Nature Photographer accompanied by USGS Biologist Michelle Reynolds

Bonin petrel. After rats were eradicated from Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, populations of burrowing seabirds such as this Bonin petrel, bounced back. In less than 10 years Bonin petrel pop

For the second time on record, a Short-tailed albatross chick has hatched outside of Japan. Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge welcomed the new chick on Jan. 12, 2012, within hours of a visit by D

Credit Andy Collins, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.

Laysan Albatrosses, aka "Gooney birds", and chicks on Midway Island, 1958

Laysan albatross nest in massive colonies at Midway National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific Islands in mid-January 2012.

Photo: Andy Collins, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

This chick, hatched on Jan. 12, 2012, is the second short-tailed albatross ever known to hatch outside Japan. Its parents successfully fledged a chick on Midway in 2011.
Midway Atoll National Wildlife

Image title: Over washed monument seep on Eastern island
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Once common, the short-tailed albatross was hunted for its feathers, meat and eggs, and was eliminated from its range except for a small cluster of Japanese islands. In 2011 a pair of short-tailed alb

Wisdom on 25Dec15 4

Wisdom on 25Dec15

Wisdom is expecting!

The first Murphy's petrel (Pterodroma ultima) ever recorded on Midway Atoll—which I spotted!

A male great frigatebird (Fregata minor) in flight

Primary colors

A female great frigatebird (Fregata minor) in flight

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) chick

Red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) in flight

A white tern (Gygis alba) checks me out

A precocious white tern (Gygis alba) chick

Close-up of a white tern (Gygis alba)

A white tern (Gygis alba) checks me out

A precocious white tern (Gygis alba) chick

A tiny Laysan duckling (Anas laysanensis) swimming

Wisdom's mate Akeakamai with their newest chick. Photo credit: Bob Peyton/USFWS

The first Murphy's petrel (Pterodroma ultima) ever recorded on Midway Atoll—which I spotted!

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) egg

A male great frigatebird (Fregata minor) flies low over Catchment

A precocious white tern (Gygis alba) chick

A ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) perches on a seawall

Portrait of a Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)

Extra fuzzy white tern (Gygis alba) juvenile

This is another white tern (Gygis alba) "nest"

A white-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) chick

Looking into the eye of a Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)

A white tern (Gygis alba) incubates its egg

Either a long-billed or short-billed dowitcher

Looking into the eye of a Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)

Several brown noddy (Anous stolidus) nests

Juvenile Laysan albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis)

Portrait of a Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)

A sleepy Laysan duckling (Anas laysanensis)

A curious Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) and its chick

A precocious white tern (Gygis alba) chick

A white tern (Gygis alba) checks me out

The sky over Eastern Island is full of birds

A white tern (Gygis alba) checks me out

A sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) in flight

A white tern (Gygis alba) checks me out

A sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) in flight

A juvenile Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) at sunset

A white tern (Gygis alba) checks out my bike

Laysan ducks in a row (Anas laysanensis) at Catchment

A sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) in flight

For white terns (Gygis alba), this is what constitutes a nest

A great frigatebird (Fregata minor) attacks a red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) mid-flight in an attempt to steal its food

Two red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) chicks

As it decomposes, an albatross carcass reveals the plastic the bird consumed before it died

A Laysan albatross/black-footed albatross hybrid

A wedge-tailed shearwater nests in the entryway to an old pillbox

A white tern (Gygis alba) checks me out

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) and its chick

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) guards its egg

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) guards its egg

A bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitiensis)

A red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) chick with its parents

A juvenile brown booby (Sula leucogaster) in flight

A group of ruddy turnstones (Arenaria interpres) on the beach

A white tern (Gygis alba) chick glows in the afternoon sun

Laysan ducks in a row (Anas laysanensis) at Catchment

As it decomposes, an albatross carcass reveals the plastic the bird consumed before it died

As it decomposes, an albatross carcass reveals the plastic the bird consumed before it died

A ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) perches on a seawall

A bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitiensis)

A red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) parent with its chick

As it decomposes, an albatross carcass reveals the plastic the bird consumed before it died

Two white terns (Gygis alba) check me out

A fluffy red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) chick

A fluffy wedge-tailed shearwater (Ardenna pacifica) chick

Red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) in flight

20 minutes later, the chick has almost swallowed the whole fish

Close-up of a short-tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus)

Two red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) chicks

A sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) feeds its chick

Brown noddies (Anous stolidus) sit in a dead tree on Eastern Island

A white tern (Gygis alba) checks me out

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) sits on its nest

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