This has been a busy week with getting settled into the house and new work situation. Today we went to Eastern Island and did a wetland count of Laysan Ducks. It is one of the rarest waterfowl on the planet with a population of about a 1,200 individuals divided between 2 of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. We returned to Sand Island about noon and then spent the rest of the day working in the albatross reproductive success plots. The volunteer who is overlapping with the new volunteers showed us these 2 Laysan Albatross albino chicks at the end of our workday today. They probably will not survive long even if they reach adulthood and leave the nest successfully.
This has been a busy week with getting settled into the house and new work situation. Today we went to Eastern Island and did a wetland count of Laysan Ducks. It is one of the rarest waterfowl on the planet with a population of about a 1,200 individuals divided between 2 of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. We returned to Sand Island about noon and then spent the rest of the day working in the albatross reproductive success plots. The volunteer who is overlapping with the new volunteers showed us these 2 Laysan Albatross albino chicks at the end of our workday today. They probably will not survive long even if they reach adulthood and leave the nest successfully.
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