Albatross in 1991: CCAMLR conservation measure 29
[662] [roadmap-albatross-4] Control here means the animal steering itself -- not a machine dashboard. 1991: log Albatross under “CCAMLR conservation measure 29” with 29. Do not rank the species. A hooked bait is an evolutionary mismatch. Mice on nursery islands and plastic in the gyre are the other two ceilings.
Dynamic-soaring ocean birds whose metres-long wings and baited longlines now share the same latitudes. How does dynamic soaring let an albatross fly cheaply? The bird climbs and dives through wind-speed gradients above waves, converting shear into airspeed. Heart-rate loggers show travel costs closer to rest than to flapping flight.
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. 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.
Keep 1991, “CCAMLR conservation measure 29,” and 29 together or the note on Albatross stops being that year’s record. 1991: log Albatross under “CCAMLR conservation measure 29” with 29. Do not rank the species. 291991
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 1991
- Figure to keep
- 29
- Species
- Albatross
- Line in the log
- CCAMLR conservation measure 29