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On witnessing an albatross feeding To witness a young albatross open wide its translucent, newborn throat, open the soft, pink shell to its mother, to the contents of the sea she carried in her body for thousands of miles, for over twenty million years – to watch, today, the chick wholly embrace the amber-colored squid [...]
We did some tests yesterday and the internet is unfortunately too slow here to make the live stream happen. Thanks for tuning into our YouTube video updates and Facebook and following along… YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/journeytomidway Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Midway-Journey
Although it is only February, Spring has arrived for the albatross on Midway. It’s birthing season and hundreds of thousands of chicks are hatching over the next two weeks on every available square meter of island. It’s an ecstatic time and we’ve spent our first few days photographing and filming the cuteness, buoyed by the [...]
Our team has arrived on Midway Island and first batch of photos from our journey here is up on our Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150518695002918.369936.117981432917&type=3&l=118ad1b0a4
At this moment on Midway Atoll, the juvenile albatrosses are in the throes of their courtship dances. Their nonstop rave is the main source of all the buoyant motion and noise on the island as they seek a bond before flying out to sea to feed for the remainder of the summer. In this poem [...]
I was interviewed on CBC Radio’s ‘On The Coast’ w/ Stephen Quinn this week. Here’s the audio transcript set to some of my behind-the-scenes photos of the filming of the Midway Documentary.
The amount of plastic objects that we are finding inside of the albatross carcasses that cover Midway Island is so shocking that it might be hard to believe. As soon as we landed on the island, we all agreed to adhere to a strict work ethic that is summarized in these three rules: No plastic [...]
