Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival

by Carl Safina

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  INDEX

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  agriculture

  Aila, William

  Alaska

  fishery management in

  long-line fleet of

  seabird protection and

  Alaska Current

  Alaska Fisherman’s Journal

  Albacore Tuna

  albatross(es). See also breeding; chicks; Amelia; Amelia’s chick; and specific species

  adult mortality, natural

  affect of seeing

  anatomy of

  bones of, used by Maoris

  clock in brain of

  Coleridge and metaphor of

  contamination levels of

  courtship and “dancing” of (see also albatross breeding; albatross chicks)

  creatures encountered by

  distances covered by

  distinguishing feature of, vs. other tube-nosed birds

  down of, used by humans

  early descriptions of

  eaten by Aleuts

  evolution of

  extreme attributes of

  feathers and skin of

  females, courtship and

  fidelity of

  fishing industry and

  flight and

  flight altitude of

  flight speed of

  food needs

  food search methods

  food shortages and

  foraging ranges

  future of

  global warming and

  as “gooney birds”

  “honeymoon” of, at sea

  human parallels with

  human spread into islands of

  killed by humans

  landing by

  lifespan of

  male, aggressiveness of

  Masonic and

  Midway Atoll

  name of

  navigation by

  nonbreeding adults

  number of

  number of, vs. hooks on long-lines

  observed by Steller

  pollution and

  population decline of

  preening habits of

  protections for, enacted

  range of

  rats and

  reproduction rate of

  scientific study of travels of

  shooting of, by Shelvock’s officer

  sleeping in flight

  smell, sense of

  social relationships of

  sturdiness of

  symbolism of

  tameness, of

  taxonomy of

  Tern Island

  threatened species, number and proportion of

  Tiger Sharks and

  urban North America and

  wings of

  Albatross Island

  Albatross Project

  Albatross Resolution of 1996 (World Conservation Union)

  Albatross (“winged boat”)

  aldrin

  Aleutian Islands

  Alitak Bay

  Allen, Brian

  Amberjack

  Amelia

  appearance of

  chick hatched

  distance of foraging trips by

  feeding chick

  first departure of

  flight of, as poetry

  food search, to feed new chick

  last visit of, to chick

  maternity vs. hunger and

  mental map of

  named

  on North Pacific Current

  realm of

  transmitter affixed to

  travels

  February 17 to 25

  February 26 to March 14

  March 16 to April 14

  April 15 to 29

  April 29 to May 13

  May 13 to 27

  May 28 to August 9

  Amelia’s chick

  early feeding and brooding of

  fed by Dad

  feeding of

  first flight of

  hatched

  heat stress and

  last visit from parents

  no longer needs brooding

  saved from storm

  American Bird Conservancy

  Amsterdam Albatross

  anchovies

  Anderson, Dr. David

  Andromeda Galaxy

  Antarctica

  Antarctica Project

  Antarctic Toothfish (“Chilean seabass”)

  Antarctic waters

  antibiotics

  Antipodes Albatross

  ants

  aquaculture (seafood farming)

  Arctic

  Arctic Terns

  Ashy Storm-Petrels

  Atlantic Cod

  Atlantic Halibut

  Atlantic Ocean

  Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses

  atolls

  Auckland Albatross

  Auckland Shy Albatross

  Audubon Society

  Austin, Oliver, Jr.

  Australia

  breeding sites in

  conservation and

  illegal fishing and

  long-line regulations by

  bacteria

  Bailey, Shaun

  Baker, Jason

  Bald Eagles

  Baltic Sea, go

  Banks, Joseph

  Baron, Nancy

  Barred Filefish

  Bartle, Dr. Sandy

  Beach Heliotrope

  Beach Naupaka

  Beagle (ship)

  Becker, Brenda

  beetles

  Belted Wrasse

  Bennet, Gordon

  Bennett, G.

  Bering, Vitus

  Bering Island

  Bering Sea

  crab fishery

  fishing regulation in

  Bermuda

  Bermuda grass

  Bertilsson, Petra

  Bigeye Tuna

  bird lice

  BirdLife International

  “bird lines”

  birds. See also songbirds; seabirds

  eradicated by Polynesians

  mating for life, and cheating by

  threatened species of

  Bird Wrasse

  Black-browed Albatros
s

  breeding sites of

  chicks

  longline fisheries and

  number of

  range of

  Black-footed Albatross

  appearance of

  beach debris and

  breeding habits of

  chicks

  contamination and

  courtship dancing by

  first flight of

  food needs of

  global warming and

  group of

  longline fishing and

  losses able to be sustained by

  number of

  survival rate of chicks

  Tern Island

  use of oceans by and range of

  Black-legged Kittiwakes

  Black Noddies

  nesting by

  temperament of

  Black Surgeonfishes

  Blacktail Wrasse

  Black Triggerfish

  blowfly, parasitic

  Bluefin Trevally (Omilu)

  Bluefin Tuna

  Blue Sharks

  Bluespine unicornfish

  Bluestripe Butterflyfish

  Bolland, Ray

  Bonin Islands

  Bonin Petrels

  Laysan Island and

  Midway Atoll and

  bonito

  boobies

  frigatebird and

  misnamed

  Bradley, Russ

  Brahms Seamount

  breeding. See also chicks; eggs; nesting; nests

  areas of

  birthplace and

  contamination and

  difficulty of

  death and

  delayed

  divorce and

  fishing boats and

  food sources and

  global warming and

  habits

  incubating, on nest

  language and

  military and sites of

  number of pairs

  number of sites

  shared by males and females

  social relations and

  speciation and

  survival rate of hatchlings

  time for

  weight loss during

  years skipped, to molt

  Bristle-thighed Curlews

  British Columbia

  Brown Noddy

  nesting

  Bryde’s Whales

  Buhleier, Birget

  Buller’s Albatross

  distances traveled by

  Bullethead Parrotfish

  Bull Kelp

  Bulwer’s Petrels

  bunchgrass

  burrow nesting

  Butterflyfish

  by-kill

  as percent of world catch

  Cachalot (whaler)

  California

  fisheries

  longline fishing and

  California Current

  California Squid

  Campbell, Roy

  Campbell Island, New Zealand

  Campbell Island Black-browed Albatross

  Canadian fishing

  Canadian Maritimes

  canine distemper, go

  Cape Horn

  Caribbean Monk Seal

  Carsten, Laura

  Caspian Sea seals

  Cassin’s Auklet

  Cayman Island Green Turtle

  Center for Biological Diversity

  Chatham Albatross

  Chatham Islands

  chemical pollutants (toxic)

  albatrosses and

  humans affected by

  morbillivirus mortalities and

  in plastics eaten by seabirds

  turtles and

  chick(s). See also breeding; egg(s)

  ability of, to survive fasting

  adult behavior toward

  “dancing” by

  deaths of

  dehydration and

  down “harvested” from

  East Island

  feeding of

  fish hooks swallowed by

  flight by

  global warming and

  growth of

  lead-poisoning of

  Midway Atoll

  newly-hatched

  number of, in lifetime of one bird

  plastic debris and

  starvation of

  storms and

  Chile

  “Chilean seabass” fishery

  China

  Chirikof Island

  chlordane

  Chopin Seamount

  Christmas Shearwaters

  Christmas Wrasses

  chubs

  ciguatera poisoning

  “circle hooks”

  climate. See also global warming albatrosses and extremes of

  Coast Guard, U.S.

  cod fishery

  Cold War

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

  Coltrane, John

  Columbus, Christopher

  Columbus, Ferdinand

  Commander Islands

  Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

  Common Murres

  compass, of birds

  inclination vs. polarity

  magnetic and celestial

  compassion

  conservation groups

  Convict Tangs

  Cook, Capt. James

  Cookiecutter Shark

  cooperative hunting, by fish

  coral reefs

  Darwin point and

  diving, off Midway

  fish species

  global warming and die-off of

  islands and atolls protected by

  snorkeling, off Laysan Island

  Courtot, Brendan

  Crabeater Seals

  crabs

  fishery

  Craig, Mitch

  Cretaceous period

  deep volcanic seamounts and.

  mass extinction in

  “critter cam”

  Cross-hatch Triggerfish

  Croxall, John

  Crozet Island

  Cry of the Kalahari

  Clenophore

  cyanobacteria “blooms”

  “Dad” (Amelia’s mate)

  Dainty (ship)

  Daito island group.

  Dall’s Porpoises

  Dampier, William

  damselfish

  Dark-rumped Petrel

  Darwin, Charles

  Darwin point

  DDT

  debris, beach. See also plastic debris

  on Laysan Island

  Debussy Seamount

  Defenders of Wildlife

  Defley, Mark

  “derby days”

  Desmond, Paul

  diatoms

  Dickey, Donald R.

  Dickinson, Emily

  dieldrin

  die-offs

  of coral reefs

  of marine mammals

  Dietrich, Aaron

  Diomedea exulans. See Wandering Albatross

  dioxins

  diseases. Monk Seals and

  diving petrels

  dolphins

  die-offs of

  killed by drift nets

  Donne, John

  Donohue, Mary

  Donut Hole

  Dove Prion

  Drake Passage

  drifting organisms, at boundaries of masses of water

  drift-nets. See also nets

  banned

  birds killed by

  French Frigate Shoals and

  on Laysan Island beaches

  pollution by

  Dungeness Crabs

  Dutcher, William

  Eagle Ray

  eagles

  Earth

  human effect on

  life-support limits of

  magnetic field of, seen by birds

  Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund

  Easter Island

  East Island

  albatross chick survival rate

  tracki
ng Tiger Shark off

  eco-tourism

  Ecuador

  egg(s)

  “candling”

  chemical contamination and

  hatching

  laying and incubating

  survival rate of chicks

  taken by humans

  Einstein, Albert

  Elderhostel

  Eliot, T. S.

  Ellis, Richard

  El Niño (Southern Oscillation)

  Emperor Seamount chain

  Endeavour (ship)

  endocrine-mimicking chemicals

  endrin

  Endurance (ship)

  Environmental Defense

  EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon)

  equator, navigation of birds and

  Equinox (fishing vessel)

  Eragrostis (grass)

  Española, Isla

  Europe

  Europeans

  in Hawaii

  kill albatrosses

  kill Monk Seals

  lives of, saved by albatrosses

  evolution

  Ewing, John

  Ewing, Valerie

  Fairy Tern

  survival rate of

  Falkland Islands

  breeding sites in

  Faroe Islands

  feathers

  albatrosses killed for

  molting, and breeding

  seabirds killed for

  Fernandez, Patty

  fibropapilloma

  field biologists, ambivalence of, about disturbing animals

  fimbristylis (grass)

  Finback (fishing vessel)

  Fischer, Karen

  fishery management. See also specific fisheries

  Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) and

  overfishing and

  total catch quotas, (“derby days”)

  unmanaged

  well-managed, vs. farming

  fishes

  color of deep-sea

  giant, study of

  number of

  plankton and

  unwanted, killed by fishing industry

  fishing, commercial. See also drift nets; gillnetting; hooks; longline fishery; and specific prey

  agreement to stop, in Donut Hole

  Alaskan

  albatrosses endangered by

  by-kill and

  chemical lightsticks, on beaches

  illegal

  Midway Atoll and

  modified to protect birds

  Monk Seals endangered by

  new regulations covering