MIDWAY ATOLL — No one seems to know exactly who came up with the name or when it first was used, but they all seem to agree that it fits: gooney. As in gooney bird. More precisely, the Laysan ...

Once Midway was a household word, the proud site of America`s first major sea victory in World War II. But now you might say this tiny coral atoll in the central Pacific has gone to the birds. Twelve ...

You could have knocked me over with a feather when I saw the picture of the bird on Smithsonian.com. The bird’s name is Wisdom and she is officially a Laysan albatross who resides on Midway Island.

THE first time I traveled to Midway Atoll was 1996, a year before the U.S. Naval Air Facility closed. I was strapped into a tail-facing seat in the windowless belly of an Air Force cargo plane. That ...

Specks of U.S. territory in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the Midway Islands are known best for their World War II role as a jumping-off point for U.S. forces beginning to turn the tide against ...

Midway Island is the happy home of 645,000 albatrosses—about 35% of the world population of the Laysan species and 16% of the black-footed species. Difficulty is, Midway is also the home of a major ...

Editor’s note: Dan King of Orange, an historian working on books about Japanese war veterans, traveled to Midway on June 2 as a volunteer translator for the Japanese and American WWII veterans and ...

The long stretch of atolls and coral reefs northwest of the main Hawaiian islands is so precious humans generally aren't allowed to venture there. Boats need special permits to enter. All fishing must ...

A pack of 10 gooney bird chicks, still fuzzy and flightless, recently flew into Kauai — on a chartered plane. It was the first step of a project where Japanese researchers will raise the wild birds ...