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  2. Snowy albatross - Wikipedia

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    Snowy albatross. The snowy albatross (Diomedea exulans), also known as the white-winged albatross, wandering albatross, or goonie, is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae; they have a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It is the most recently described species of albatross and was long considered to be the same species as the ...

  3. Albatross - Wikipedia

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    The waved albatross, though, makes no nest and even moves its egg around the pair's territory, as much as 50 m (160 ft), sometimes causing it to lose the egg. [42] In all albatross species, both parents incubate the egg in stints that last between one day and three weeks. Incubation lasts around 70 to 80 days (longer for the larger albatrosses ...

  4. Southern royal albatross - Wikipedia

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    The southern royal albatross or toroa, (Diomedea epomophora) is a large seabird from the albatross family. At an average wingspan of above 3 m (9.8 ft), it is one of the two largest species of albatross, together with the wandering albatross. Recent studies indicate that the southern royal albatross may, on average, be somewhat larger than the ...

  5. Wisdom (albatross) - Wikipedia

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    Wisdom. Wisdom (Z333) is a wild female Laysan albatross, the oldest confirmed wild bird in the world and the oldest banded bird in the world. [1] First tagged in the 1950s at Midway by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), she was still incubating eggs as late as 2020 and has received international media coverage in her lifetime.

  6. Northern royal albatross - Wikipedia

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    The northern royal albatross is typically about 115 cm (45 in), [8] weighs 6.2 to 8.2 kg (14–18 lb), and has a wingspan from 270 to 305 cm (106–120 in). [3][9] The juvenile has a white head, neck, upper mantle, rump, and underparts. There is dark speckling on the crown and rump. Its lower mantle and back are white with more black speckling ...

  7. Northern lights forecast: Solar storm may bring northern ...

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    By comparison, the May 10 geomagnetic storm that made the aurora visible across Ohio was rated a G5, the most extreme, and brought the northern lights to all 50 states, USA TODAY reports. What's ...

  8. Short-tailed albatross - Wikipedia

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    The short-tailed albatross usually first breeds at 10 years of age. [22] The short-tailed albatross lays a clutch of one egg that is dirty white, with red spots, mainly at the blunt end of the egg. It usually measures 116 by 74 millimetres (4.6 in × 2.9 in). The egg is incubated for around 65 days. Both sexes incubate the eggs. [22]

  9. The northern lights put on an impressive show this past weekend, starting on Friday night and continuing through Sunday. But the geomagnetic storm that pushed the aurora borealis this far south is ...