Dennis Buckley (DD 808) - Naval Cruise Book

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Albatross Gooney Birds welcomed the BUCKLEY Midway several days before land was sighted. to SK3 Ferguson photographs the fearless Gooney Birds ' for the cruise book ' s color pages of Midway Island. Although albatrosses are absent from the North Atlantic, two species nest on Midway and other is- lands of the Pacific, north of the equator. When air- strips were being constructed on Midway, the stub- born albatrosses had to be removed forcibily from their nests. Such behavior has given them the name Goony Birds. One Pacific species, the black-footed albatross, wanders widely over the North Pacific. It often follows ships plying to and from Hawaii and eagerly gobbles down any wastes thrown overboard. The albatrosses of the Pacific were formerly killed ruthlessly for their feathers and one species was thus exterminated. Midway Island is now a sanctuary for the surviving species. 19

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After a brief stay in Hawaii, Squadron ONE departed the paradise for Midway.

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