The world’s oldest Laysan albatross, a female named Wisdom, nesting on Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge. Photograph: USFWS - Pacific Region
The world’s oldest Laysan albatross, a female named Wisdom, nesting on Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge. Photograph: USFWS - Pacific Region
Just what you need for your collection....
Looks like Pelosi, but a lot younger and more attractive.
How do we know which bird is the oldest? Is someone checking id’s of birds? If they can do it, why can’t we do it for elections??
Slut.
I suppose she expects the taxpayers to pay for her lifestyle now.
;-)
Had a few of these birds gliding in our wakes in the Pacific not far from Midway. Maybe she was one of them and would have been in her late teens then and just a few years younger than me. And the Fleetwood Mac version. One of my favorite instrumentals.
Old and used...
I bet they found a way to swap their tags around.
*ping*
I worked on albacore boats back in the 70’s and always enjoyed watching them skim the wave tops, rarely flapping their wings, just gliding. Big birds, 6 to 7 foot wingspans. It is a sin to kill one according to the poem.
Well of course! The Sage-grouse is encroaching on the nesting habitat of the Laysan Albatross.
/S
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...
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.
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 old dinosaur....