Albatross · Dynamic-soaring ocean birds whose metres-long wings and baited longlines now share the same latitudes.
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JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Largest wingspan; dynamic-soaring type specimen in public science.
Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans, Southern Ocean) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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John Klavitter/U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public domain
Laysan female still breeding into her 60s–70s.
Wisdom (albatross) (banded 1956–, Midway Atoll) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Samuel Cousins / After Washington Allston · Public domain
The Rime (1798) — guilt attached to a seabird.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834, United Kingdom) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Barbara Dowell · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bander who put a ring on Wisdom in 1956.
Chandler Robbins (1918–2017, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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Fabio Olmos/BirdLife. This is a low res version supplied with permission. Fabio Olmos retains copyright to hi-res version. · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cape Town treaty for diomedeids and petrels.
ACAP (2001–, International) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mainland colony with public hides near Dunedin.
Northern royal albatross (Taiaroa Head, New Zealand) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mollymawk whose longline overlap is among the best documented.
Black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris, Falklands / South Georgia) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
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BirdLife International · Public domain
Red List authority and ACAP science partner for diomedeids.
BirdLife International (seabird programme, United Kingdom) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
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Tori lines work when streamed. Observer coverage and night-setting compliance still decide whether a licence condition is a real hook count.
Coleridge made one dead bird a moral. ACAP tables count thousands — a scale the Rime never had to hold.
Apex diurnal raptors whose stoops, territories and national emblems stretch from taiga cliffs to tropical canopy.
Overall 75 🦉Nocturnal raptors whose facial discs, silent flight and asymmetric ears turn darkness into a hunting map.
Overall 72 🐧Flightless southern divers that turned wings into flippers and ice edges into commute routes.
Overall 56 🐦New World nectar specialists that hover on figure-eight wings and migrate on a few grams of fat.
Overall 63 🦩Long-legged filter feeders whose bent bills and carotenoid diets turn alkaline lakes into pink cities.
Overall 52 🦜Zygodactyl hookbills whose social brains, mimicry and nest-cavity needs collide with the cage trade.
Overall 58 🦢Tall wetland dancers whose red-crowned East Asian population is the atlas type and a conservation bottleneck.
Overall 53