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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. She was spotted ...
Procellariiformes / prɒsɛˈlɛəri.ɪfɔːrmiːz / is an order of seabirds that comprises four families: the albatrosses, the petrels and shearwaters, and two families of storm petrels. Formerly called Tubinares and still called tubenoses in English, procellariiforms are often referred to collectively as the petrels, a term that has been ...
For over a decade, Young studied the benefits of female-female nesting pairs in a Laysan Albatross colony on northwest O`ahu. Laysan Albatross typically mate for life and the male and female of the species look identical. Young used DNA from the feathers from albatross pairs and found that over a third of the pairs were female-female.
The laysan albatross averages 32 in in length and has a wingspan of 77–80 in. They have the largest wingspan of any bird. The Laysan albatross feeds predominantly on cephalopods, but also eats ...
The North Pacific albatrosses are large seabirds from the genus Phoebastria in the albatross family.They are the most tropical of the albatrosses, with two species (the Laysan and black-footed albatrosses) nesting in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, one on sub-tropical islands south of Japan (the short-tailed albatross), and one nesting on the equator (the waved albatross).
Philopatry is the tendency of an organism to stay in or habitually return to a particular area. [1] The causes of philopatry are numerous, but natal philopatry, where animals return to their birthplace to breed, may be the most common. [2] The term derives from the Greek roots philo, "liking, loving" and patra, "fatherland", [3] although in ...
Socioemotional selectivity theory. Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST; developed by Stanford psychologist Laura L. Carstensen) is a life-span theory of motivation. The theory maintains that as time horizons shrink, as they typically do with age, people become increasingly selective, investing greater resources in emotionally meaningful ...
The red-footed booby can be seen year-round on Kilauea Point. Each year, thousands of migratory seabirds use Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge for nesting, foraging, or resting. Laysan albatrosses, red-footed boobies, brown boobies, red-tailed and white-tailed tropicbirds, great frigatebirds, and wedge-tailed shearwaters all visit the refuge.