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Midway In The News –

Stream the Beautiful Highs and Violent Lows of Albatross Life With This New 24-Hour Camera on Midway Atoll - Smithsonian Magazine
December 12 2025
Midway Atoll receives translocated Laysan finches from Manawai after 80 years since rats erradicated them from Midway Atoll in the mid-1940s - Maui Now
July 24 2025
Endangered finches return to skies of Midway Atoll - The Garden Island Newspaper
September 16 2025
Homecoming 8 decades in the making: Laysan finches again grace skies, fields of Midway Atoll - Kauai Now
July 27 2025
Riding a bike through the world’s largest albatross colony - Popular Science
July 25 2025
7-Foot Tsunami Waves Strike Midway Atoll; Here’s the Video - SURFER Magazine
July 31 2025
She’s Back! Wisdom The Incredible Laysan Albatross Has Returned - Forbes
December 2 2025
Marine Air’s Dark Day at Midway - U.S. Naval Institute
May 7 2025
Wisdom, oldest bird, returns with mate to Midway Atoll! - EarthSky
November 30 2025
Seventy Never Looked So Good: The Long, Wondrous Life of Wisdom the Albatross - National Audubon Society
April 22 2025
Tsunami hits Midway Atoll, waves reach up to 7 feet before moving to Hawaii | Hindustan Times - Hindustan Times
July 30 2025
Update: Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green said no wave of consequence has hit islands - Big Island Now
July 29 2025
Wisdom the Laysan Albatross returns to nest at Midway Atoll - BirdGuides
December 10 2025
The World’s Oldest Wild Bird Just Came Back at 75 to Her Pacific Island Home and Is Still Laying Eggs - ZME Science
December 2 2025
A New Mom at 75: What One Albatross Teaches Us About Longevity in the Wild - A-Z Animals
December 11 2025
Albatross that ‘miraculously’ survived a tsunami has a new chick. See them together - Sacramento Bee
March 6 2025
Record-breaking 75-year-old mother bird prepares to nest - Popular Science
November 30 2025
Midway Atoll's Seabird Protection Project - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (.gov)
August 9 2023
Coast Guard medevacs injured man from Midway Atoll - United States Coast Guard News (.mil)
December 12 2024
75 Years After the Battle of Midway, a Tour of the Midway Atoll - Government Accountability Office (GAO) (.gov)
June 5 2017
Papahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Mission: Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll) - NOAA Fisheries (.gov)
October 8 2021
Battle of Midway: June 1942 - National Review
June 4 2025
My Month at Midway Atoll - Island Conservation
December 18 2017
'Wisdom' the Albatross returns to Midway Atoll to nests again at the age of 75 - Moneycontrol
December 2 2025
Trump Opens Commercial Fishing on Protected Pacific Ocean Region - SURFER Magazine
April 24 2025
Among winged-sacred beings in Kuaihelani - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (.gov)
September 25 2024
Leaving on a Jet Plane: Marine Debris Removal at Midway Atoll Comes to an End - NOAA Fisheries (.gov)
October 29 2018
See the Adorable Video of Wisdom, the World's Oldest Wild Bird, Tending to Her New Chick at Age 74 - Smithsonian Magazine
February 19 2025
Midway: Why Barack Obama visited a tiny island in the Pacific - CNN
September 2 2016
Murderous mice attack and kill nesting albatrosses on Midway Atoll − scientists struggle to stop this gruesome new behavior - The Conversation
February 20 2024
Restoration Recipe for Midway Atoll - Island Conservation
September 3 2019
Coast Guard medevacs ailing man from Midway Atoll - United States Coast Guard News (.mil)
November 17 2024
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