Recently, there have been emails from groups all over the country who have rescued DC-3s and, after years of work, gotten them flying. My friend Barry Schiff was bragging about being asked to fly the ...

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 ...

On Midway, it is not shifts in weather that determine the seasons but the comings and goings of gooney birds. "Summer isn’t summer," explains field biologist Heidi Auman, "it’s the bird window"—the ...

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 ...

Anza, CA, July 20, 2026 --(PR.com)-- Wilkins H. Y. Ching has completed a new book, "The Voyage Of The Gooney Bird," which transports sixth graders from Seaside Elementary School onto the glass-bottom ...

The Gooney Bird long-range drone was unveiled today. The 13-foot-span vehicle was created to set new range and endurance records for sub-55-pound model aircraft and UAVs. The craft is currently under ...

Gooney Bird Greene -- imagine life as an 8-year-old orange-haired girl saddled with that name in today's world. "She was an 'interesting' looking baby," explains Danielle N. Schoeny, a 21-year-old ...