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Wisdom

The Midway Albatross

Darcy

Pattison

Kitty

Harvill

Surviving the Japanese Tsunami

and other Disasters for over 60 Years

Wisdom, the Midway Albatross:

Surviving the Japanese Tsunami

and other Disasters for over 60 Years

Text copyright 2012 Darcy Pattison

Art copyright 2012 Kitty Harvill

All rights reserved.

JNF003270 JUVENILE NONFICTION / Animals /

Endangered

JNF003030 JUVENILE NONFICTION / Animals /

Birds

EPub: ISBN 9780979862182

Paperback: ISBN 9781493742196

http://albatross.darcypattison.com

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Little Rock, AR 72202

USA

ISBN-13: 978-1-68444-324-6 (e-book)

Synched Read-Along Version by:

Triangle Interactive LLC

PO Box 573

Prior Lake, MN 55372

Kitty Harvill

Dedicated to albatrosses and seabirds everywhere.

Darcy Pattison

For my grandchildren and their grandchildren.

Acknowledgments

anks to Pete Leary, Wildlife Biologist, Midway Atoll

National Wildlife Refuge, Papahnaumokukea Marine

National Monument for his help in this project and for his

excellent photography, which is the basis for much of the

watercolors here. We also thank these photographers for the

use of their work as reference material: John Klavitter, David

Patte, Brenda Zuan, and Michael Lusk.

M any

years ago , on the tiny Midway

Atoll in the heart of the Pacic Ocean,

a wild chick hatched. She was a gooney

birda Laysan Albatross. e crowded,

noisy rookery could be a dangerous place.

Many chicks would not live long enough to

learn to y.

Somehow, Gooney survived.

When it was time to migrate, Gooney was

gone for a long time. For five or six or

seven or eight years, she soared.

When she was hungry, she swooped down

to land on the waves to eat.

She liked squid best, but she wasnt picky.

And always while eating,

she watched the water because sharks liked

to eat goonies.

Somehow, Gooney survived.

One day in 1952, while Gooney

was still a youngster soaring

over the open ocean,

an earthquake hit Kamchatka,

Russia and a tsunami

sped across the Pacific Ocean,

to crash against the shores of

Midway Atoll and Hawaii.

If she noticed the huge wave,

it didnt bother her.

Gooney just flew

above the tsunami.

This time, it was easy to survive.

Finally, after years of soaring,

Gooney ew south

in search of love.

In about 1956,

she landed back

on Midway Atoll.

There, in a noisy

courtship dance,

she mated.

Soon aft er, Gooney laid an egg.

She didnt squawk or call. She just sat.

Nothing could make her move

off the nest until her mate

came back from fishing.

She didnt move

for Navy men

who sailed in

submarines or

flew in airplanes.

She didnt move

for airplanes

or trucks

or carts.

She just

sat.

Thats when a research scientist, Chandler

Robbins, caught her and banded her on

December 10, 1956. If she was caught again, the

metal leg band would identify her for scientic

study.

Gooney didnt care about the metal band

on her leg. Soon, she and her mate were too busy

soaring out to sea and coming back to regurgitate

squid to feed the chick.

Finally, when the weather

grew warm, the family flew north.

Gooney and her mate ate and migrated and soared

and raised a new chick each year or so. Thunder-

storms came and went.

Tropical storms came and went.

Hurricanes came and went.

Every year,

more of Gooneys rookery mates

were gone, lost to the wild.

By the time she was

twenty, she had outlived

eighty-seven percent of her rookery mates.

Somehow, Gooney survived.

Eating was always dangerous

for Gooney, but by the 1960s,

it became even more dangerous.

Sitting on the waves and fishing, many

Laysan Albatrosses

started to eat plastic.

Some ate plastic and ate plastic

and ate plastic until

their stomachs were so full

that no food would fit:

they starved to death.

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