On Midway, it is not shifts in weather that determine the seasons but the comings and goings of gooney birds. "Summer isn’t summer," explains field biologist Heidi Auman, "it’s the bird window"—the ...

Midway Island is the happy home of 645,000 albatrosses—about 35% of the world population of the Laysan species and 16% of the black-footed species. Difficulty is, Midway is also the home of a major ...

Birds, fish and other migratory creatures have long been the envy of the U.S. Navy, which would like to learn to navigate with their casual accuracy. In its latest effort to understand animal travel ...

A timely storyline has planes menaced by flocks of Gooney birds! When a crazed hunter is hired to get rid of the birds, Chilly adopts one of the eggs left behind ...