Earth and Space News: Laysan Albatrosses: Earth Day 2019, Five-0 Season 9 Episode 22 Icons

Summary: Laysan albatrosses are Earth Day 2019 and Five-0's O Ke Kumu, O Ka Mana, Ho'opuka 'Ia: The Teacher, the Pupil Let It Come Forth icons April 26, 2019.

Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) Wisdom, 69 years old in 2019, inspires as Earth Day 2019 icon; Wisdom with her chick, Feb. 7, 2017, at nesting site used each year by Wisdom and her mate, Akeakamai; Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (United States Minor Outlying Islands insular area) in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, North Pacific Ocean; photo credit Naomi Blinick/USFWS: National Marine Sanctuaries, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Laysan albatrosses are Earth Day 2019 icons that actualize Hawaii Five-0 series episode O Ke Kumu, O Ka Mana, Ho'opuka 'Ia: The Teacher, the Pupil Let It Come Forth April 26, 2019.

Director Brad Turner and writers Ashley Dizon and Rob Hanning bolster Season 9's 22nd episode with the 'ōlelo a'o ("advice") about bonding between students and teachers. The series' 215th episode overall considers the compassionate conveyor of common sense and correct knowledge who creates all straight-A students and cultivates neither bullying nor favoritism. Wisdom, among Laysan albatrosses of Bonin Islands, French Frigate Shoals, Guadalupe Island, Kaua'i, Laysan Island, Midway Atoll and O'ahu, does duty with Earth Month 2019 icons.

The photogenic 69-year-old Wisdom emerged April 22, 2019, from all other Earth Month 2019 icons as Earth Day 2019 icon of exemplary endurance despite endangering events.

November through July, with a focus from Nov. 20 through Dec. 24, furnish the 40-year life cycles of Laysan albatrosses with breeding months on Pacific islands.

Physically and sexually mature nine-plus-year-old female Laysan albatrosses minimally nine years old gestate 8 days one seasonal brood for a ground-scraped depression amid beach grass and sand. They each have one brown-spotted, buff- to cream-white, 4.25- by 2.72-inch (10.8- by 6.9-centimeter) egg within grass-, leaf-, needle-, twig-honed nests with debris- and sand-heaped rims. Life-mated parents initiate shared 62- to 66-day incubations and then 51-day instructions, alternated with foraging itineraries, of their dark, downy, fluffy, gray-white, open-eyed, 7-ounce (198.45-gram) hatchling.

Laysan albatrosses juggle semi-independent life cycles as Earth Day 2019 icons since female Laysan albatrosses journey between nearby roosts and nestling nests during Earth Month 2019.

Laysan albatrosses keep away from Pacific Rim continents and know Pacific islands as nestlings, until fledging as 165-day-olds, and during yearly homecomings from three years onward.

Laysan albatrosses never look to ship-tossed leftover food even through they lead insular and marine lives off eastern Asia, Pacific Ocean islands and western North America. Broad-based, dark-tipped, hooked yellow-orange bills and pink-footed legs mine coastal-shelf and open-sea waves for coral, crabs, fish, fish eggs, hydra, jellyfish, lobsters, sea anemone and squid. Dark-backed, dark-tailed, dark-underwinged, white-headed, white-rumped, white-undersided Phoebastria immutabilis (from Greek Φοῖβος, "bright" and Ἀστραῖα, "star-maiden" and Latin immūtābilis, "unchangeable") net dark-margined white underwings and gray-patched eyes.

Laysan albatrosses, observed by Walter Rothschild (Feb. 8, 1868-Aug. 27, 1937), obtain 5.25- to 9.04-pound (2.4 to 4.1-kilogram), 31.10- to 31.89-inch (79- to 81-centimeter) head-body-tail lengths.

The Procellariiformes (from Latin procella, "storm"; -ārius, "belonging to"; and -fōrmis, "formed") tubenose order gliding, rolling, soaring member possesses 6.25- to 6.7-foot (1.9- to 2.03-meter) wingspans.

The Diomedeidae (from Greek Διός, μήδεα and -ειδής, "prudent like Zeus") albatross family member queues into braying, dancing, groaning, moaning, squeaking, swaying, whining, whinnying, whistling colonies. Laysan albatrosses realize 34.79-mile (56-kilometer) hourly speeds in 497.09-mile (800-kilometer) spurts within 18,919,005.77-square-mile (49,000,000-square-kilometer) coastal-shelf and open-sea flying, foraging, sleeping ranges and insular breeding, parenting ranges. Air-, land-, water-polluting marine debris and plastic waste from shipping lane cruisers and freighters and drift-gill netting and long-line and trawler fishing shorten near-threatened Laysan albatross lifespans.

Their individual 93,205.68-mile (150,000-kilometer) Pacific territorial ranges turn Laysan albatrosses up in time as Earth Day 2019 icons for Season 9 of the Hawaii Five-0 series.

Hawaii Five-0 Task Force Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) with Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Noelani Cunha (Kimee Balmilero) in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0 season 9, episode 22, O Ke Kumu, O Ka Mana, Ho'opuka 'Ia (The Teacher, the Pupil Let It Come Forth): CBS Hawaii Five-0 episode 9.22 promotional photo, via SpoilerTV April 20, 2019

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

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