A Royal Albatross Can Fly for 13 Straight Months 👑 Into the Wild New Zealand | Smithsonian Channel
2023 ж. 2 Мам.
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After 13 months and around 120,000 miles, a male Northern Royal albatross finally arrives home: the windswept headland of Taiaroa Head. It’s the place where he was born and likely the only ground he’ll ever touch in his life.
From: Into the Wild New Zealand
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I'm glad I'm on this earth during the same timeline as the albatross - stunning creatures.
They have such sweet eyes. And their sky calls are beautiful
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I feel compelled to share this - my brother was an ocean-going yachtmaster, and sailed around the world for a number of years. I always missed him 'till my heart burst with the loneliness of missing him. Then one day he was in a deep sea diving accident, and was literally blown to pieces - there was nothing left. He loved the ocean, and she finally claimed him. 🌊🌊🌊 There is an instrumental by Fleetwood Mac called Albatross. Every time I hear that music I'm transported back to that moment. Love is unconditional and infinite but still, love your dearest ones while you can. ❤ Rest in peace, my dear, darling brother. 🕊️🙏🤍🙏🕊️
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Condolences
So sorry 😢. Such a sweet & loving tribute. ❤
@@catherinebreitfeller669 thank you Catherine. Bless you! ❤️
What magnificent creatures they are. Thanks for capturing these images of something we'd never see otherwise.
'And soon, they get down to business." And then it shows them both sit next to each other in the grass, and look out at the ocean. lol
They live up to 45 Years, nice.
Even longer. There was one called Grandma who lived to be over 60.
@@tracy9610 Uh nice 🤗
Nice
*Lol, I heard that and read your comment at the same time.*
Am amazing long life
Talk about living on the wind, they are amazing creatures, flying for a year.
Actually they don’t touch land for the first three to four years of life before they return to begin looking for a mate. However they don’t generally begin breeding until they are around six years of age 😊
They don’t fly for a year, they have to land on water to feed and rest, they only go onto land to find their mate and breed, the rest of their lives are at sea but landing on it often.
They don’t fly for 2 years straight. They land in the ocean regularly.
I have been watching the live cam hosted by the New Zealand Dept. of Conservation at Taiaroa Head. I have watched these Albatrosses raise their chick and he is just about ready to take to the skies himself. It will be a sad day when he fledges. The Rangers take very good care of the Albatross making sure they are getting enough food and weighing them all the time.
They’re incredibly beautiful ♥️🥳
For the past 2 Nesting Seasons, I've watched Royal Cam Albatross in New Zealand on the Tiora Head and have learned a lot about Albies. It amazes me that they have 10 foot wingspans, no wonder they can fly over a year without touching ground! But to be a solitary birdie must be a lonely life at times for them. Thank You Smithsonian Channel for sharing!
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I wanted to ask how would they sleep if they spend months on the ocean, then I look it up and found out they spend many years at sea and sleep on the ocean rather than on land. Albatross land and sleep on the ocean for several hours at a time. What a bird!
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Am watching the wing exercising and walking about...what a wing span!
Amazing animal!
Amazing Bird!
I never knew what an Albatross was or looked like, until a person I follow ( Lady Hawk) mentioned Royal Albatrosses of New Zealand, Stunningly beautiful birds, with soulful skycalls, very long wingspans and great gardening skills 😉😉2 seasons in now and it feels bittersweet..The chicks just left and time for mates to return & renew their bond..TY Smithsonian Channel❤
Beautiful to watch❤
absolutely incredible.
Beautiful. Thank you. Blessings on these precious gifts. Wonderful. 💛
Magnificent!!!
Amazing bird 👏👏👏👏👏
I was on the Hudson river, I looked around and one was gliding very close to me. I almost panicked because it was so darn large. I explained it to my friend. He told me it was an albatross
Suddenly I feel less lonely
Amazing Video...👌👍
Inconceivable 😊😊
Because it’s wrong, they land and feed on the sea.
Oh taywitch ❤ again 13
yes exactly what i was about to commenttt shes a masterminddddd
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Wow!! 😮
How does it sleep?
Came here looking for the albratross…. Oh Taylor swift cant wait
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Empty beak clapping is something humans do to in courtship.
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WOW.
„Fly for 13 Months“ how does it eat and hunt during that time?
how do they eat while flying for 13 months straight?
WOW ...
*3:56** What type of business specifically?*
How do these birds eat? If they are flying for 13 months straight?
Great birds and good video. But I believe the title is misleading. As far as I know, they do land in the water and don't fly for that entire 13 months. This is contrary to the common swift that actually eats/sleeps/breeds on the wing for up to 10 (confirmed) months at a time [not landing on ground or water]. Please let me know if I'm incorrect, but again, I believe "fly for 13 straight months" is not correct.
Thirteen months on the wing? WHEN do they sleep? Do they manage without?
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Think about the prehistoric birds and flying reptiles, mammals and bugs, clogging the sky like the shallows to the depths of the ocean, seeing bigger and bigger creatures flying through the air
How do you know?
wow
How do they sleep if they fly for a year?
Landed on the sea and took a nap I guess? ( didn't land on solid land)
@@jurassicparkboom2426 Correct
Gain altitude and glide. 10 foot wingspan.
I’ve seen bird spread their wings in the sky.maybe they sleeping . So it’s possible
They sleep while they fly.
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I know you guys want clicks, but c'mon .. you're THE SMITHSONIAN .. have some self-respect. These birds do _NOT_ fly for 13 months straight.
No they didn’t, they land on water to rest, but don’t touch land for at least a year. In the case of juveniles they won’t touch solid land for three to four years.
Exactly.
"At sea" would, I think, have been better phrasing. It also might have been nice to mention a stat like "of which they spend x months on the wing, in flight for up to x hours at a time". Oh well. At least we got to watch some genuinely lovely film.
A God-given gift to humanity for us to enjoy.
Where does the famous saying come from?
landing after 13 months flying should be painful one
The title is misleading.
The title is plain wrong.
Music title?
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i just wonder how they sleep of perhaps rest…?
The guy is a liar.
Birds don't sleep like people. Sleep is needed by the brain to arrange the information collected during the day in order to create new synapses. The more primitive the species, the less information it collects because it only needs instincts to survive. Unihemispheric sleep is a phase of deep sleep in which there are dreams, but it allows the birds to be awake in order to monitor the possible arrival of predators. Some birds even have one eye open while sleeping. So the birds can take a nap in flight without any problems. Sharks do not sleep at all because at the top of the food chain and in an unchanging environment, the brain does not need to progress.
@@ksenap7233 You had me until the last sentence. I would think all sharks did was sleep because they have nothing to worry about.
Cute birds cute my depression
What do you mean by “Get down to business”?
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Do they sleep while flying ?
I believe their brain sleep half one at a time.
What they eat and drink if they are flying for 13 months continuously
they can pick fish from sea without actaully landing and urinate while fying also maybe their structure sports having their wings spread open without using its muscles,and if it doesnt require a effort it can just go with the wind while sleeping,and also they may require a lot less sleep like some sharks do.
@@khafvaal4415 In other words, you don't know, and this title is nonsense clickbait.
They are beautiful
@@khafvaal4415 Total rubbish, they land on the sea and sleep and feed in the sea
They eat fish and squid, and they drink sea water each time they eat. Their nostril’s literally desalinate the water they take in.
NZ’s last PM can do it for 14 months
John Key kept us all asleep for a decade while he ran his scam and lies and ruined NZ then vanished overnight. Literally the only mention of that treasonous little snake i have heard since he fled was that he had bought a house on the Sydney waterfront for 10M and immediately relisted it for 11M the next day. Wow thanks Johnny, you disgusting sociopath, I bet the Aussies are pleased to have you there ruining their housing affordability too with your profiteering...
Duck can fly
How do you know it doesnt land on an island, you don't. Spare me.
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Great bird, horribly intrusive music. I tuned out.
So I'm supposed to believe they never landed on water and never ate for 13 months? Well I don't believe that.
Listen to the first part of the video, says “solid” ground.
Sleep too
@@boson2916 they sleep while flying. They get micro-naps in the air.
Wow! That's cool
They eat fish. In the ocean. They are at sea most of their lives, only landing on the ground for breeding season.
10 feet? Please use metrix system just like 90% of the world. Thanks! :)
90% of their viewers are in the USA, as is the Smithsonian.
Please spell it as *metric, just like 99.99% of the world. 🇺🇸
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@@Nyx773 😂hahaha😂
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13 straight months without eating and drinking water?
13 months no food water?
It’s funny how ppl believe whatever they’re told 😂 the bird catches prey in the ocean and does land on water from time to time and that gives its body a break otherwise if it flew for a year without eating it wouldn’t be possible 😂😂😂 it also uses wind to fly thousands of miles which is cool .
OK...people use your brains. They go for a long time without touching land, but they STILL LAND IN THE WATER TO EAT... FFS they don't fly 100% of the time for a solid year. That's just ridiculous.
Just going by what Smithsonian told us...