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Wysłany: Śro 17:39, 06 Kwi 2011 Temat postu: Oldest savage bird in U.S. survives tsunami - Yaho |
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Wisdom holds the disc for the oldest savage sample documented during the 90-year history of the U.S. and Canadian bird-banding research procedure.
(Writing at Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Steve Gorman and Jerry Norton)
The aged bird appointed Wisdom and her recently hatched chick were spotted alive about a week after Sand Island in the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge was struck by a 5-foot tidal wave unleashed by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that buffet March 11 off the coast of Japan.
Biologists estimate namely Wisdom has recorded about 3 million flying miles in her lifetime, the equivalent of 6 round trips to the Moon.
Laysan albatross, 1 of 21 category of the colossal sea birds, breed aboard the Hawaiian isles of Oahu and Kauai and feed off the west seashore of North USA,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], including the Gulf of Alaska. They typically match because life and cost their first 3 to five years in constant flight, not touching land, and are deemed to even slumber when aloft.
HONOLULU (Reuters) – A 60-something albatross ranked as America's oldest free-flying bird has thrilled biologists by surviving a tsunami that struck the Pacific island where it nests, the Fish & Wildlife Service said on Monday.
Those tallies represent a small fraction of the overall population of 1 million Laysan albatross -- Wisdom's species -- that nest in the refuge, yet 20 percentage of this year's hatchlings.
The tsunami slew an estimated 2,000 mature albatrosses and about 110,000 chicks in the Refuge, a U.S. posession about a third of the path among Honolulu and Tokyo in the North Pacific.
She was premier tagged with an aluminum identification orchestra in 1956 when around 5 annuals of old. Her latest chick,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], thought apt be her 35th, was hatched weeks ago, production her a mom again by the ripe antique age of almost 60.
"Because she namely the oldest, she's competent to provide us some message that not additional albatross tin at this point in time, and that's accurate how long-living are these beasts," Stieglitz said.
"It's a dangerous globe out there, there's lots going on, so I would mention she's very fortunate," said Barry Stieglitz, project chairman for the Hawaiian and Pacific Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex of the Fish and Wildlife Service.
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