Albatross in : Hook decades
[118] [more-albatross-18] In , the field log for Albatross is headed “Hook decades.” The figure kept beside that heading is 3. It is a count or a date from the work, not a rank of the species’ worth. A zoo birthday card does not replace the log. RSPB-led eradication designs treated mice as apex predators on a seabird island.
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. How many albatross species are threatened? BirdLife assessments have long placed a majority of Diomedeidae in threatened categories — an unusual concentration for a small family.
Keep , “Hook decades,” and 3 together or the note on Albatross stops being that year’s record.3
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 3
- Figure to keep
- 3
- Species
- Albatross
- Line in the log
- Hook decades