Albatross in : Early diomedeids
[1] [albatross-0-1] A specimen label at a natural history museum records where and when, not which animal is more valuable. For Albatross, write , “Early diomedeids,” and 30, and leave league tables off the card. How does dynamic soaring let an albatross fly cheaply?
A female banded in 1956 by Chandler Robbins at Midway. She has fledged chicks into her seventh decade — a longevity record that made a single band number famous. Why are longlines the central threat? Baited hooks look like squid. One set can kill dozens of birds. Night setting, weighted lines and tori lines cut the kill when fleets actually use them.
What did Coleridge actually do to the bird? The 1798 Rime made killing an albatross a moral crime. The poem outran the biology and still titles newspaper bycatch stories. The northern royal albatross colony near Dunedin is a mainland breeding site with public hides — rare for a family that usually needs remote islands.
Do mice really eat albatross chicks? On Gough and some other islands, introduced house mice attack chicks of albatrosses and petrels. Eradication attempts are now as central as hook rules. The atoll is also the world’s largest Laysan albatross colony. Plastic and lead paint joined the WWII ruins as management files.
The order on the card is year, line, figure. Albatross is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo.30
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 30
- Figure to keep
- 30
- Species
- Albatross
- Line in the log
- Early diomedeids
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