无尽汪洋 10 - 英语听力

The greatest ocean wanderer

With its two-metre wingspan

Is the albatross

To find enough food for its oversized offspring

This black-footed albatross may have travelled

A staggering 6000 miles across the open ocean

Looking for hot spots of squid and fish

The albatross nest on the tiny Hawaiian islands of French Frigate Shoals

This island may be only half a mile long

But it provides a base for around 300,000 seabirds

With food so hard to come by in the open ocean

Newly hatched sooty tern chicks are easy pickings for the larger frigate birds

For hours on end they survey the nesting grounds

Waiting for a chance to strike

A mother tries desperately to protect her helpless chick

But an unguarded chick is desperately vulnerable

It's what the frigate has been waiting for

No wonder the crew of the ***** called them the "man-of-war" birds

For two weeks

The frigate birds keep up their relentless aerial assault

Until finally the sooty tern chicks are old enough to get away