“I witnessed a terrible massacre, whose appearance was unbearable. What happened there is a massacre called precisely. "

The Alpina Non-Fixh publishing house publishes the book of the famous American ecologist and zoologist Karl Safina "The eyes of Albatross." She was awarded the medal of John Burrose for the best work on natural science and protection of nature, and the US National Academy of Sciences called it the best book of the year. The author goes on a trip after the albatrosses in the hope that they will reveal his world to him.

With the kind permission of the publisher, we bring to your attention an exciting and terrifying story of extermination and reminiscent of the miracle of the resurrection of the population of Belospine albatrosses.

Professor of the University of Alaska, Rick Steiner, eloquently described the snow -spine albatross as "perhaps the most stunningly beautiful of all albatrosses." And even if you agree with the statement of Oscar Wilde, that beauty is most often in the eyes of the watchman himself, the Belospin albatross in addition to this is many excellent qualities. He is the largest bird in the north of the Pacific Ocean. Once his future caused the most serious fears, for several years he was even considered extinct. Adults, as their tower describes exquisitely, are dressed “in a magnificent set of colors, which consists of a characteristic gilded head, a sparkling pink beak with a turquoise tip and black stroke around its base, brown, black and white plumage on the wings and pinkish paws. Their feathers - only about fifteen thousand - play in the wind, like thick fur. " Like the wandering albatrosses, their outfit lights up over the years.

Once upon a time, snow-bearing albatrosses were found throughout the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, from Taiwan to the coast of Japan, Korea and Russia and from Alaska to the south, to Lower California. At the beginning of the XIX century, cinema-to-time cinema was brought from time to time with snow-pound albatrosses to Edo, where their meat was often sold under the name Okino-Tsuru (from the Japanese, "Sea Crane").

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