{"id":28549,"date":"2024-12-08T04:41:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28549"},"modified":"2025-04-08T20:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:43:41","slug":"laysan-albatross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/laysan-albatross\/","title":{"rendered":"Laysan albatross"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Laysan albatross:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) is a <strong>large seabird<\/strong> that ranges across the <strong>North Pacific.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Northwestern Hawaiian Islands<\/strong> are home to 99.7% of the population.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>spends most of its time on the open sea,<\/strong> spanning these tropical waters.<\/li>\n<li>It nests on open, sandy, or grassy expanses of islands, with 94% of breeding pairs on <strong>Laysan Island and Midway Atoll,<\/strong> as well as on other <strong>small Hawaiian Islands<\/strong>, the bigger islands of Oahu and Kauai, and a few sites off <strong>Japan and Mexico.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is an <strong>expert soarer<\/strong> and can travel hundreds of miles in a day with scarcely a wingbeat.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Laysan albatrosses have <strong>blackish-brown backs and upper wings<\/strong>. The primary <strong>feathers have a flash of white.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>underwing is also white, with black margins<\/strong>. There is a dark tail band that is visible during flight.<\/li>\n<li>Laysan albatrosses are a <strong>monogamous species, and they mate for life.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List: Near Threatened<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is an atoll?<\/h3>\n<p>An atoll is a ring-shaped coral reef, island, or series of islets. An atoll surrounds a body of water called a lagoon. Sometimes, atolls and lagoons protect a central island.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/environment\/flora-fauna\/worlds-oldest-known-wild-bird-lays-egg-in-hawaii-at-age-74\/articleshow\/116031285.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World&#8217;s oldest-known wild bird lays egg in Hawaii at age 74<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}