Laysan

• “The most charismatic of those critters was Makana, a sea bird called a Laysan albatross from Hawaii.”

  Kate Slusark: Giant trash dump in Pacific is bad for sea life - but you can make it better

• “Unfortunately, plastic floats, and Laysan albatross are particularly attracted to it.”

  Death by Plastic » E-Mail

• “Midway Island, an atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is roughly halfway between North America and Asia, and home to more than a million birds, including most of the world's large seabirds: the Laysan Albatross.”

  The Huffington Post: Lisa Bennett: How to Avoid Eco-Despair

• “Midway is home to eighty people and about 400,000 pairs of Laysan albatross, as well as tropic birds, black noddies, white terns, and other nesting and migratory birds.”

  Simon & Schuster: Spoken from the Heart

• “According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, on an island in the middle of the Pacific (1,000 miles from the nearest big city), 40 percent of Laysan albatross chicks die from eating plastic pollution.”

  Kate Slusark: Giant trash dump in Pacific is bad for sea life - but you can make it better

• “Sal, I would check Spetner's Not By Chance, pp. 202-205 for his discussion on the Galápagos finches and similar studies done with Laysan finches.”

  Behe Responds

• “The basic facts about Laysan are already familiar to readers of the filmmaker's Times blog, which is less an actual blog and more a place where the filmmaker occasionally posts smart, funny ruminations about the number of cannonballs in Roger Fenton's famous photographs from the Battle of Sebastopol and other seemingly recondite subjects.”

  Wired: Filmmaker Errol Morris Gets to the Truth Behind the Abu Ghraib Photographs

• “His chief obsession this afternoon is Laysan, a coral island in the middle of the Pacific that was once a major source of albatross eggs.”

  Wired: Filmmaker Errol Morris Gets to the Truth Behind the Abu Ghraib Photographs

• “In this case, it turns out there are ocean currents that sweep a huge amount of garbage from the Pacific Rim and bring it out to Laysan.”

  Wired: Filmmaker Errol Morris Gets to the Truth Behind the Abu Ghraib Photographs

• “Today the islands are a National Wildlife Refuge and are the site of the world's largest Laysan albatross colony.”

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