Albatross — Gough eradication attempt · 218
[754] [roadmap-albatross-9] The atoll is also the world’s largest Laysan albatross colony. Plastic and lead paint joined the WWII ruins as management files. 218 Quotas, listings and trade rules now bound real populations as tightly as weather. 2021: log Albatross under “Gough eradication attempt” with 3. Do not rank the species. Albatross culture is local: the same silhouette is a licence in one c
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. 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 order on the card is year, line, figure. Albatross is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo. 2021: log Albatross under “Gough eradication attempt” with 3. Do not rank the species. 32021
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 2021
- Figure to keep
- 3
- Species
- Albatross
- Line in the log
- Gough eradication attempt