Discoveries

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has collected the first-known comprehensive video documentation of one of the world's rarest birds on its tundra breeding grounds in Chukotka, Russia, and posted the video online. Cornell Lab videographer Gerrit Vyn captured footage of the first moments when Spoon-billed Sandpiper chicks venture away from their nest.

A Laysan albatross known as "Wisdom" - believed to be at least 62 years old - has hatched a chick on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge for the sixth consecutive year.