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"Laysan's First Flight" (red) Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) Midway Atoll, Northwest Hawaiian Islands Cropped Image ©2001 |
| This is a photo of a Laysan Albatross
fledgling (same as "Laysan's First Flight" blue but cropped). I visited
Midway in the summer of 2001, when the chicks were shedding their final
"baby feathers" and gaining their juvenile plumage so they can successfully
fly. Gooney Birds, as they are fondly referred to, number in the thousands
on Midway during most of the year. They come to Midway Atoll to breed
and raise their young. The Laysan Albatross is humorously clumsy on
land but very graceful in the air and on the ocean. They spend most
of their lives gliding over the open waters of the planet and will fly thousands
of miles in search of food. We would cheer the fledglings on as they
took off and tried their wings for the first time. Landing, on the
other hand, was not quite as graceful but was particularly amusing. |
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