Posted on 12/07/2018 11:31:55 AM PST by Red Badger
In sea mariner lore, an albatross is considered a good omen, and for almost seven decades, one bird has spread generations of blessings across the Pacific Ocean.
Wisdom, a 68-year-old Laysan albatross believed to be the world’s oldest known wild bird, has returned to her home at the Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge for yet another winter – and laid yet another egg to add to the already impressive brood that she has built up over an impressive lifetime.
Biologists with the US Fish and Wildlife Service think the almost-septuagenarian has birthed and raised as many as 36 chicks over the years. Should her latest egg with her longtime lover, Akeakamai, hatch, fledge and take to the open sea, it will be her 37th. Trump administration plans to weaken protections for sage grouse Read more
Wisdom was first banded in 1956 by biologist Chandler Robbins, who estimated that she was about five years old at the time. The biologist and bird met again in 2002 when he went to band her and recognized that she had been one of the 8,400 birds he recorded during his first season, 46 years previously.
Albatrosses are known for their long life spans and often outlive their researchers – Robbins died in 2017 at the age 98 – but what makes Wisdom unique is that researchers have been able to monitor her habits for so long. She may or may not be the oldest wild bird, but she is the oldest known wild bird, and her habits have been lovingly documented by the fish and wildlife service over social media.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Cruise passengers react to the announcement that the chocolate buffet has been called off.
Well of course! The Sage-grouse is encroaching on the nesting habitat of the Laysan Albatross.
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I was stationed on Midway ‘75-’76. Probably walked right by that bird.
How do they know this is the same bird? I know some species, they put bands on them... but I haven’t seen that in this case...
That bird never lied to me, or used the power of the State to rob me.
Can’t say the same for Pelosi.
Did you read the article?....................
Essentially, yes. why can’t we do it for elections??
We can. Easily. Even Third World $#!+holes manage it.
The demonicRATs refuse to do it.
Of course not - if I had done that, I would have seen this part:
—Wisdom was first banded in 1956 by biologist Chandler Robbins,—
We refueled there coming and going from ‘69 to ‘71.
All this reminds me of “Old Granny”, a Herford cow caught in the the fallout from a nuke blast. After she was doused with fallout, she still dropped a calf every year for 19 years. All were normal.
Birds are lucky, they get laid even before they're born.
Well of course she did!
She glowed in the dark so the bull could find her easier!................
http://www.midway-island.com/history/chronology-of-events/
for those interested.
I’ve flown in and naturally out of Midway and Guam many, many times in my 26 years of Naval service.
Still hate “gooney birds”
You were naked? And why do you hate DC-3's?.................
Wisdom was first banded in 1956 by biologist Chandler Robbins, who estimated that she was about five years old at the time.
;-)
Time just *zips* along!
You old dinosaur....
Eh, no I wasn’t naked and why was your...
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B4 we know it, we'll be saying *It's spring!...where did winter go?*
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