NORTHERN ROYAL ALBATROSS NEEDS YOU!

FOOD WEB

Did you know that the Northern Royal Albatross is endangered? (audience answers). If not, they are. We have to save them! They live in the Arctic. They eat squid, fish, crustaceans, and salps. They are eaten by cats and stoats.

THREATS

Here is what is hurting them: trash, pollution, habitat loss, storms, non-native animals, and fishing equipment. Northern Royal Albatrosses eat the trash by accident. Then it blocks their digestive track. Then they feel too full to eat food, and starve themselves to death. Fishing lines with baited hooks attract them. Then they eat the hooks and the bait, and they choke on the hooks until they die.

HOW TO HELP

This is how you can help!!! Please don’t litter. Only fish when you need to. And remember, fishing nets hurt the Northern Royal Albatross. They think the fish caught in the fishing nets are a school of fish. Then they get caught in the nets. The nets can cut them. Then they die of blood lose. And don’t pollute the air.

HOW TO IDENTIFY THEM

Here’s how you can identify them. They have a white body, a white head, and they may have black speckles on their head. They have long, narrow wings, black upper-wings, and white under-wings. Their white tail feathers might have a black tip. Their bill is hooked, like a comma. They have webbed feet, and they have pink legs and a pink bill. Fun fact: A Northern Royal Albatross is also called a Torora.