This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Steffen Oppel remembers ...

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Black-browed albatrosses can plunge up to a whopping 62 feet (19 metres) into the sea in pursuit of their prey — more than twice the depth previously thought. This is the conclusion of University of ...

Over half of wandering albatrosses breeding on Bird Island, South Georgia, in the sub-Antarctic, encounter fishing vessels when feeding, putting them at risk of being accidentally caught or killed in ...

To golfers, an albatross means that you’re three under par on a single hole. To poetry majors, it’s a centuries-old metaphor for unbearable burdens. To bird enthusiasts, it's one of earth’s most ...

Wandering albatrosses find food by heavily relying on their sense of smell. The first study of how individual wandering albatrosses find food shows that the birds rely heavily on their sense of smell.

The Wandering Albatross, the world's largest flying bird has a wing span of up to 3.5 metres and can travel several thousand kilometres across the sea on a single journey. But these powerful birds are ...

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Scientists attached GPS trackers to a group of 16 albatrosses in the Indian Ocean. They recorded the birds flying at speeds of up to 67mph using a ‘dynamic soaring’ technique, which enables them to ...

Albatrosses do not fall in love the way humans do. When the birds couple up, it’s almost always for keeps. Their lives start lonely—albatross parents lay only one egg at a time, and may leave their ...

The spectacular wandering albatrosses in Sunday's Blue Planet programme on the BBC have suffered a major decline in numbers over the past three decades. New research suggests breeding pairs of this ...