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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 2022
© 2022 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 38, No. 17
Meet the Albatross
The wandering albatross is the
world’s largest flying bird.
These are big
birds: An
albatross
wingspan can
be from six to
eleven feet wide!
Here’s how that
compares to the
armspan of two kids.
lbatross are large seabirds. Scientists have
discovered that albatross chicks that live
in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, far away
from people, are killed by little pieces of
plastic, including plastic toys. How does
plastic wind up in the middle of the
Pacific?
The Great Pacific Garbage
Patch is a massive soup of
plastic waste floating in the
sea. It’s growing larger all the
time, harming birds, fish and
people, too!
A number of years ago, scientists
discovered _______ and dead
albatrosses on a group of remote
and isolated ___________ called
4’
What’s a watershed?
Plastic from the west coast of
North America floats down
creeks and rivers into the
Pacific Ocean. There it joins the
North Pacific Gyre which flows
clockwise into a large circle.
4’
A Dangerous Mix
Albatross parents travel hundreds
of miles to find food for their
chicks. They scoop up squid, krill,
fish eggs and other natural
seafood from the surface of the
ocean. They carry their food back
to their chicks in their stomachs.
the Midway Atoll. These islands are
located about 1,400 miles northwest
of the Hawaiian islands in the middle
of the Pacific ________.
When it reaches its hungry chick,
the albatross regurgitates the
food. The chick then pulls food
out of the parent’s mouth to eat.
(Gross to us, but perfectly normal
for these birds.)
Few people live on Midway Atoll.
How does so much plastic get there?
The answer lies in the earth’s
watershed and ocean ___________.
A Sea of Troubles
Great
Ocean
Da Yang
Seafoods LTD.
Researchers found small plastic toys,
toothbrushes, bottle ____ and other
small pieces of plastic. These were all
single-use plastics—plastic that
was used just ________ and then
thrown away.
A watershed is not a building.
It is an area of land that
collects rain and snow. The
water then drains into bays
and from there into the
ocean where it joins large
ocean currents.
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But albatross are also swallowing
dangerous plastic waste when
scooping up seafood. One bird
researcher saw an adult albatross
regurgitate a toothbrush and its
chick ate it. Chicks are not able to
regurgitate food or other materials
out of their stomachs and the
plastic food stays there, making
them sick and killing them.
watershed
river
ocean
How YOU Can Help!
YOU can stop plastic from entering the watershed by reducing
the amount of plastic you use and recycling the plastic you
can’t avoid using. Below each of these items, draw what you
could use instead.
SINGLE-USE PLASTICS TO AVOID:
plastic cups plastic utensils paper plates plastic water bottles
plastic bags
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