Articles by Elena Passarello

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How to Catch a Rat

By Elena Passarello
July 14, 2021 — In 2019 a Mexican island that harbors 95 percent of the world’s Black-vented Shearwaters received an unwanted vermin visitor. To nab the interloper, Isla Natividad’s human inhabitants had to get creative.
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Seventy Never Looked So Good: The Long, Wondrous Life of Wisdom the Albatross

By Elena Passarello
March 24, 2021 — The Laysan Albatross is the oldest known wild bird on the planet, an international icon, and still hatching eggs. This year she had her 39th chick.