Albatross Startles Researchers By Making Rare Appearance Off California Coast
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The sighting marked only the second recorded sighting of the bird north of Central America.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists on a research vessel off the central California coast spotted a waved albatross, marking just the second recorded sighting of the bird north of Central America.
The yellow-billed bird with black button eyes, which can have an 8-foot (2.4-meter) wingspan and spends much of its life airborne over the ocean, also came with a mystery: Researchers wonder how and why a species known to breed in the Galapagos Islands — roughly 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) away — ventured so far north.
To scientists, it’s a “vagrant” bird, one traveling far outside its typical range. It was spotted 23 miles (37 kilometers) off the coast of Point Piedras Blancas, roughly midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The adult bird “doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to get back south,” said marine ornithologist Tammy Russell, who was onboard the vessel and noted that the same bird apparently was spotted in October off the Northern California coast.
“I can’t even believe what I saw,” Russell wrote on Facebook. “I’m still in shock.”
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