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The Albatross: Mightiest of the Seabirds

The Budget Museum
2023 ж. 18 Мам.
109 410 Рет қаралды
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The Albatross!
This felt much more like one of my old-school videos. It’s weird to call any of my content “old School” but it has been more than 3 years since the channel started. There really isn’t any content about albatrosses on KZhead, so I hope people are interested in this animal. On the other hand, maybe they’re not, and this video will become my own personal “Albatross” viewership-wise.
Music was not made by Dara Hughes this time, instead, it is this great royalty-free track here on KZhead. • Deep Blue - Calming Oc...
Wikipedia Articles for the topics if you want to learn more about them:
Albatross: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross#
… do you expect anything else?
Sources Used:
royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
www.britannica.com/animal/alb...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/sc...
www.amnh.org/exhibitions/wate...
sora.unm.edu/sites/default/fi...
www.marineornithology.org/PDF/...
Other Websites used:
Picture of Albatross with lady: / 360780620148122782

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  • I was being tongue in cheek: that is not my actual house

    @TheBudgetMuseum@TheBudgetMuseum7 ай бұрын

    • What? No way!

      @W4iteFlame@W4iteFlame4 ай бұрын

    • You probably should've mentioned that m8.

      @Qu0thTheRaven@Qu0thTheRaven3 ай бұрын

    • The rent must be astronomical!!!

      @wordreet@wordreetАй бұрын

  • Animals that own a niche so hard they usually die of old age sounds like a fun series.

    @JeffBilkins@JeffBilkins Жыл бұрын

    • yeah , swifts , blue whales and killer whales are probably also in that category ... as well as likely the queens of eusocial insects ...

      @davidegaruti2582@davidegaruti2582 Жыл бұрын

  • The amazing thing about Wisdom is that she is still raising chicks with no signs of slowing! She has revealed to us that albatrosses are not only long-lived but also remain fertile for a long time. That's probably how the birds work around having a very slow breeding cycle.

    @juncohill@juncohill Жыл бұрын

    • what a beast

      @Dell-ol6hb@Dell-ol6hb11 ай бұрын

    • Gilf

      @Lizard1582@Lizard15828 ай бұрын

    • ​@@Lizard1582ayo

      @user-hh7yt3cb5f@user-hh7yt3cb5f7 ай бұрын

    • @@Lizard1582 ayo

      @TeyuYagua@TeyuYagua7 ай бұрын

    • Wow, I actually didn't know that! Amazing!

      @GraupeLie@GraupeLie6 ай бұрын

  • Albatrose named Wisdom is 70 years old....Ya, that is quite fitting

    @pauliusthemad3498@pauliusthemad3498 Жыл бұрын

    • The ever beautiful Wisdom 🥰 is at least 73 as of this year's return to the nest. I'm 70 and she was ringed before I was born!!!

      @wordreet@wordreetАй бұрын

  • I saw an albatross while puking on a boat once. Unforgettable experience for multiple reasons, but I couldn’t get over just how huge it was compared to other sea birds!

    @Eeggs4breakfast@Eeggs4breakfast Жыл бұрын

  • I spotted one once. It was HUGE. Its beak and the size gave it away. It was close too. The strangest thing about seeing it was where it was. Anyone who is familliar with the upper midwestern US and the adjacent prairies in Canada knows about the amazing bird populations. You wouldn't expect sea gulls to live that far inland but there's so much water in lakes and ponds that they do. Cormorants and other sea birds are known there as well. I was driving through Manitoba and stopped at a nature reserve called Oak Hammock Marsh. Albatrosses are not common inland and had not been reported there (at least not recently according to the whiteboard, datasheets, and public log which were there). Unfortunately, the facility was closed so I couldn't inquire further. Beautiful place. I'd highly recommend it for bird lovers!

    @victorparzialeii4747@victorparzialeii474711 ай бұрын

  • It was The Rescuers that first got me interested in these beautiful birds. It was the perfect choice to have the albatross be the "airplane" for the mice. He also had to get a run for take-off, and he crash-landed every time coming in! Albatross are the best gliders, but quite terrible at landing and walking.

    @LittleWhiteRabbitB@LittleWhiteRabbitB Жыл бұрын

    • Yes! Same for me. I watched rescuers 2 so many times as a kid. Such a beautiful movie

      @davidec.4021@davidec.4021 Жыл бұрын

    • It's a jumbo!

      @victorparzialeii4747@victorparzialeii474711 ай бұрын

  • What magnificent creatures, and what a magnificent existence. Thank you for showcasing this creature, because I do not think I would have given them a second thought.

    @donoteatcake9718@donoteatcake9718 Жыл бұрын

  • As an Albatross, I approve this video ☮️🤘🏾🌊🕊

    @albatross4920@albatross4920 Жыл бұрын

    • As a video, i approve you Albatross

      @oliverkloezoph69@oliverkloezoph697 ай бұрын

  • I feel like the albatross is the closest living thing we have to a pterosaur.

    @bonecanoe86@bonecanoe86 Жыл бұрын

    • I agree, I knew they were big but not having 3.5 meter wingspan! Incredible!

      @HueghMungus@HueghMungus11 ай бұрын

  • The ever beautiful "Wisdom" 🥰 is at least 73 as of this year's return to the nest. I'm 70 and she was ringed before I was born!!!

    @wordreet@wordreetАй бұрын

  • If you live in a house like that, why is this museum on a budget??

    @Zero_XTZ5@Zero_XTZ5 Жыл бұрын

    • Have you seen the economic state of the world😂

      @onetitwndr@onetitwndr Жыл бұрын

    • Because he's the butler 😂😅

      @rocioaguilera3555@rocioaguilera3555 Жыл бұрын

    • Spent all the money on the house, no money left over for the museum.

      @BE-fw1lr@BE-fw1lr Жыл бұрын

    • Act broke to stay rich

      @grumbotron4597@grumbotron459711 ай бұрын

    • @@grumbotron4597 on god

      @Zero_XTZ5@Zero_XTZ511 ай бұрын

  • love these creatures- I watch the New Zealand Albatross nesting cam, it is really awesome. Also used to go to Kauai every year and would go to the bird sanctuary to watch them-from a distance- nesting/resting on the cliff side. thanks!!

    @kmgg5005@kmgg5005 Жыл бұрын

  • Albatross' graceful soaring is calming

    @bruhdotmpthree2792@bruhdotmpthree27927 ай бұрын

  • I never knew that I loved Albatross so much.

    @nathanweber354@nathanweber354 Жыл бұрын

  • This was way cooler than I expected. So glad I clicked.

    @jen6373@jen63739 ай бұрын

  • Wisdom is amazing! That blew me away. I wish I was an Albatross.

    @HesGotaGun505@HesGotaGun50511 ай бұрын

  • The albatross has my favorite love story in nature. Partners for life, spending almost all year apart but coming to the same spot every year for a few weeks to reaffirm their bond and raise a chick.

    @sarlife@sarlife11 ай бұрын

  • I am a planeologist and an airbus and a biplane have approximately nothing in common aside from the fact that they’re both fixed winged aircraft.

    @wtbanation6268@wtbanation6268 Жыл бұрын

  • So what I have taken from this video, is that albatrosses live the best life: travel the world with ease, find the love of your life, travel the world with ease, have lovely children, travel the world with ease, die of old age. sounds like they have it about right. Not for the first time, I am jealous of a seabird.

    @inspirednamehere6166@inspirednamehere6166 Жыл бұрын

  • I don’t know what to call your unique sense of humor, all I know is that it’s the best way to learn about nature.

    @dMb1869@dMb1869 Жыл бұрын

  • 10 years ago I went vactioning to the beaches of Acapulco It was a windy, sunny day, perfect for going to the shore and dwelling on the beach But my dad had another idea, because the hotel we booked in that week had a pool in the roof So we took the elevator and went to the 16th floor. When we got there, my life was changed forever A bird, whose size dwarfed every other bird I've seen to that day, staring at me from the other side of the floor, peacefully, but intensely, as if it was scrutinizing my soul The albatross then took flight, spreading its wings, and letting the wind carry it to its fate Many more of them soared above me that weekend. Their huge shadows letting me know they were there Idk if there's a culture who have assigned them some significance, but since that day, for me, Albatrosses are the birds of peacefulness and good times

    @Qvartz_Lite@Qvartz_Lite11 ай бұрын

  • Albatrosses are cool and so are your videos

    @glopple@glopple Жыл бұрын

  • Albatrosses are extremely beautiful and interesting. I've seen them 2-3 times in my life. I've love to see them again 🦤 Congratulations to the camera people. Incredible images. Albatrosses must be protected from extinction 😢

    @rocioaguilera3555@rocioaguilera3555 Жыл бұрын

    • they are less likely to be extinct since they are seabirds and the nature of their niche which is literally just eating small fish and squids. unless we screwed up are oceans so hard the fishes just... dies.

      @cultureddoggo5606@cultureddoggo56069 ай бұрын

  • One of my favourite bird groups ever, they are so majestic and huge.

    @mrbanjofrog@mrbanjofrog Жыл бұрын

  • I’m in college for my BS in wildlife care, and my biology course project I chose to do on short tailed albatrosses. The incredible adaptations they’ve made to become the masters of the skies (I wrote this a millisecond before I heard you say almost the exact same thing in the intro lmao) are like the most successful examples of evolution. You see a lot of animals that develop so far into a specific niche then as soon as their habitat is altered they immediately go extinct, but albatrosses adaptation is the perfect blend of specialization of locomotion combined with generalization of acceptable food. Basically anything that lives near the surface of the water is fair game for them. The only real thing that could kill them off is losing their breeding islands.

    @albytross8681@albytross86817 ай бұрын

  • What a gorgeous video. I just stumbled upon this somehow. Your mix of humor and fact and earnestness is excellent. I have always loved learning about our natural world, animals in particular. The albatross is a mighty creature, and although I thought I had known and respected the albatross before watching your video, I cannot tell you how much more I do so now, afterwards.

    @cameronwick@cameronwick11 ай бұрын

  • There are two types of people: those who associate the albatross with Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and those who associate the albatross with Disney's The Rescuers.

    @possumpatrol45@possumpatrol45 Жыл бұрын

    • I'm both :D

      @LimeyLassen@LimeyLassen Жыл бұрын

    • idk what either of those are

      @user-zj2kp7mm7x@user-zj2kp7mm7x Жыл бұрын

    • How could you not mention Sonic Riders broski?

      @uglybastard1080@uglybastard1080 Жыл бұрын

    • I associate it with the Monty Python sketch.

      @XenoSun@XenoSun11 ай бұрын

    • And also us, JoJo fans....

      @personifiedmarvel6964@personifiedmarvel696411 ай бұрын

  • Wait, so this bird tacks like a sailboat essentially to fly effortlessly 🤯

    @stealdst@stealdst11 ай бұрын

  • Watched it once before but saw the community post, commenting for the algorithm. Glad to see you uploading again.

    @DanKeehner@DanKeehner Жыл бұрын

  • The albatross are terrifying to me.

    @caninehat6589@caninehat6589 Жыл бұрын

  • I'm glad you are back♡ I love it when you drop your vids.

    @m.alejandramartinez9357@m.alejandramartinez935710 ай бұрын

  • AAAAAAA I LOVE ALBATROSSES!!!!!!! they've always been my favorite bird and they give me so much joy. They're so round and big!!! I love them so much!!!!!!!!

    @flora_7719@flora_77197 ай бұрын

  • Really did not expect such a lovely video. Great watch!

    @Itsatarp1337@Itsatarp13378 ай бұрын

  • Another brilliant video. Thank you!

    @garyb6219@garyb6219 Жыл бұрын

  • love this video and i'm so glad you're back!! i'm pretty new into birding but i've been trying to see an albatross for a while :) such amazing birds

    @pinksui1635@pinksui163511 ай бұрын

  • I never realized just how amazing and awesome albatrosses are.

    @Eye_Exist@Eye_Exist Жыл бұрын

  • I work with a person studying their PhD working on Albatross genomics and developing a reference genome to try and help fisheries (in New Zealand at least) try to lower the amount of Albatross they get in their bycatch. Their taxonomy is kinda messed up because of course it is, but they're pretty amazing seabirds

    @S0M3GUY778@S0M3GUY778 Жыл бұрын

  • “Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves…” (From “Echoes” by Pink Floyd)

    @21centuryhippie61@21centuryhippie61 Жыл бұрын

  • flawless video as always, i love your videos and always get so excited when you upload! thank you

    @haz454@haz454 Жыл бұрын

  • I sure hope that, your insight will really open broad understanding,to the folks that have no regard for all wildlife & help them to come around & care for this world!!!

    @ManuelArmenta-qw1cu@ManuelArmenta-qw1cu7 ай бұрын

  • I swear the BEST channels only upload once every couple months

    @sauceman21@sauceman2111 ай бұрын

  • Its always a treat when u post man

    @tjhodge3517@tjhodge351711 ай бұрын

  • GREAT!!

    @madamepigeon@madamepigeon9 ай бұрын

  • Great topic. I remember not having much appreciation for these and not realising just how massive they were. After learning about them I found they seem to be the avian elephant equivalent, amazing creatures.

    @Nagassh@Nagassh Жыл бұрын

  • Informative videos, humor very scarce so it always catches you by surprise. One of the best channels.

    @williamshakemilk2192@williamshakemilk2192 Жыл бұрын

  • new budget museum upload, a blessing

    @parkersullivan903@parkersullivan903 Жыл бұрын

  • Dark thoughts because without enough winds on open seas they're "sitting ducks" for predators.

    @kathrynmcmorrow7170@kathrynmcmorrow71708 ай бұрын

  • "Albatross!" - John Cleese

    @stavrosmilos165@stavrosmilos1658 ай бұрын

  • Have been watching an albatross cam from New Zealand and have fallen in love with these fascinating birds. Thank you very much for this. Now do wombats please!

    @QueenCeleste2@QueenCeleste28 ай бұрын

  • I'm so excited for the next video As always these videos are just amazing

    @jameslauramore4277@jameslauramore427711 ай бұрын

  • I love your channel! This is so weird, but I have been thinking about the albatross for a long time. Read Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, and then I looked them up, and I have been enchanted by how they live ever since. I would switch over to albatross in a heartbeat.

    @user-il9ze9py8c@user-il9ze9py8c10 ай бұрын

  • O, the pelican. So smoothly doth he crest. A wind god!

    @foxtwo1584@foxtwo158410 ай бұрын

  • Good music mentioning the albatross rime of the ancient mariner by iron maiden(also originally an interesing old 1700s poem )

    @andythegoatman694@andythegoatman6948 ай бұрын

  • merci beaucoup

    @hadjnabil4811@hadjnabil48113 ай бұрын

  • Dont worry your analogy was right, bi planes and airliners have as much in common as albatros and sea gulls

    @chheinrich8486@chheinrich8486 Жыл бұрын

  • nicely done! thx

    @LBG-cf8gu@LBG-cf8gu5 ай бұрын

  • Lovely video, thanks.

    @devangoad@devangoad Жыл бұрын

  • I listen to this to fall asleep

    @topherm365@topherm3654 ай бұрын

  • SUPER NICE, literally big bird

    @takenname8053@takenname8053 Жыл бұрын

  • I love albatrosses. Thanks, Mr. Budget

    @Jacob-ly8vs@Jacob-ly8vs11 ай бұрын

  • Now whenever I get on a tangent about birds and go on about how incredible the Albatross is, i can just show this video so people stop thinking I’m crazy. Seriously though once you realize how big they can get and what they can do its insane.

    @PapaMerlz@PapaMerlz6 ай бұрын

  • I had no idea they were related to penguins of all things!

    @laurachapple6795@laurachapple6795 Жыл бұрын

  • @2:13 genuinely a fair comparison to show differences, between in both topics.

    @907kyle7@907kyle710 ай бұрын

  • loved these dudes from my favorite pink floyd song

    @mountainpike5685@mountainpike5685 Жыл бұрын

  • Yes!! Been waiting for this one

    @cheyennereynoso4116@cheyennereynoso4116 Жыл бұрын

  • I'm finally over my stats exam and ready to watch a new masterpiece

    @fatfrogge8753@fatfrogge875311 ай бұрын

  • very cool video! (:

    @SkbidiToiletFan@SkbidiToiletFan8 ай бұрын

  • Albatros are majestic and inspiring where as their cousins the giant petrels are vile hellspawn

    @Madhijz@Madhijz11 ай бұрын

  • solid video loved it.

    @clownfishautozoophilia5828@clownfishautozoophilia5828 Жыл бұрын

  • Literal mastery.

    @AmericanCrusader222@AmericanCrusader22211 ай бұрын

  • great video, amazing birds! : )

    @moontan91@moontan916 ай бұрын

  • Can’t wait!

    @dmason8078@dmason8078 Жыл бұрын

  • The bit about them being terrified when bobbing without wind to catch on open waters might have some validity. Back when sailing was sailing, albatrosses would often land themselves on the deck of vessels during calm days and would tolerate well the humans on board. It was common practice to chase, catch, play with, razz, and feed the creature before letting it on its way. Never killed though, as you'd be cursed and would be forced by the rest of the crew to wear the corpse around your neck as an ill omen or like repentance for... I dont know how long, actually. Until the voyage ends or it rots off you? The details of these things I forget. There's no reason to kill them anyways, as their meat is pitiful and _foul._ Not even starving castaways find themselves able to down much of it at all. They are quite fun because they're so massive, deceptively as big from what you'd take away only having watched this video as they are unbelievably light, which makes for an interesting feeling when you handle them. They're great birds.

    @Providence83@Providence8311 ай бұрын

  • Albatrosses: exist Moushly: *Confusing Screaming noises*

    @TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz Жыл бұрын

  • due to the separation by the equatorial region the north pacific population is likely to further diverge from the rest of them over time forming its own genera

    @raphlvlogs271@raphlvlogs271 Жыл бұрын

  • He's back

    @JerryAss@JerryAss11 ай бұрын

  • Yippee a video to fall asleep to:)

    @poshdino6667@poshdino6667 Жыл бұрын

  • Awesome Video!

    @froginthewaves8450@froginthewaves8450 Жыл бұрын

  • ❤❤❤

    @alfredbaeumer3643@alfredbaeumer36438 ай бұрын

  • I really like albatross too

    @rafaelcalderabebber1198@rafaelcalderabebber1198 Жыл бұрын

  • I love them. Cuties.

    @stephenfaust2@stephenfaust211 ай бұрын

  • I love this bird

    @yoyo777@yoyo777 Жыл бұрын

  • Seeing one of the wandering variety is on my bucket list. I got to see the laysan albatross in kauai and was amazed, because while I understood that they were big birds, I didn't really understand until I saw it, you know?

    @---jt5wg@---jt5wg8 ай бұрын

  • I love this channel

    @creakingskull7008@creakingskull7008 Жыл бұрын

    • Thank you! I remember your comments on some of my earliest videos. One of the OG fans right here!

      @TheBudgetMuseum@TheBudgetMuseum11 ай бұрын

    • @@TheBudgetMuseum Creaking Skull

      @creakingskull7008@creakingskull700811 ай бұрын

  • "The Interrropical Convergence Zone" Me: "ah yes the Grand Line"

    @invisiblegrif42@invisiblegrif42 Жыл бұрын

  • I've seen one of these irl SO BIG the one I saw was the toroa the wandering Albatross

    @xapg5@xapg5 Жыл бұрын

  • There’s something oddly calming about these animals getting to die of old age in the wild

    @ganondorfodragonmmirechan1847@ganondorfodragonmmirechan184710 ай бұрын

  • Really great video keep it up 👍

    @NaturallyEarth@NaturallyEarth11 ай бұрын

  • Great vid

    @maddib1723@maddib172311 ай бұрын

  • Damn, my new favorite bird

    @feba33@feba339 ай бұрын

  • good video, i like albatrosses too, even more now after this.

    @user-zj2kp7mm7x@user-zj2kp7mm7x Жыл бұрын

  • Wake up babe new BM video!

    @amzfishman1@amzfishman1 Жыл бұрын

  • Hooray I missed you!!

    @Funkiotologist@Funkiotologist Жыл бұрын

  • I always respected Albatrosses because, y'know, big bird fly far. Thanks for giving me not only more knowledge but also more respect for those magnificent creatures.

    @DeuxisWasTaken@DeuxisWasTaken11 ай бұрын

  • A rare day indeed

    @DepthStrider222@DepthStrider222 Жыл бұрын

  • So these are the XXL seagulls i see sometimes

    @HRM.H@HRM.H8 ай бұрын

  • Well hell yes brother

    @pmd_birdman7891@pmd_birdman7891 Жыл бұрын

  • I really hope you can post more often.

    @leonardoalfonso7080@leonardoalfonso7080 Жыл бұрын

  • I always thought albatrosses were lame until I saw this thank you

    @jackmatthews8062@jackmatthews806211 ай бұрын
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