Author and seabird expert Peter Harrison will present a lecture on albatrosses this Sunday as a part of the Port Townsend ...

with its wings stretching up to 3.5 meters (11.5 feet)—the largest of any bird today. Designed for life at sea, the wandering albatross can fly for days without landing, effortlessly gliding ...

and finally to the moment at which an albatross chick fledges the nest and takes to the skies for the first time to go out to sea, not to return to its natal colony for years to come. Bird Island ...

The oldest known bird in the wild, a Laysan albatross on Midway Atoll in the ... of more than 2 meters and spends most of its life at sea. The species used to number at least in the hundreds ...

The two islands are uninhabited aside from researchers. The wandering albatross has the largest wing-span of any bird and they are famed for following ships. There are thought to about 25,000 of ...

Thirty-four days later, they had sailed and been blown 1,000 miles by one of the worst South Sea hurricanes in history ... That night an albatross landed on the raft. Aldrich killed it with ...

1. The wandering albatross is a feathered giant having the longest wingspan of any bird, at up to 3.5m (11ft)! 2. Albatrosses can travel at speeds of up to 140km/h. 3. They are so efficient in ...

Some bird populations migrate between high and low altitudes within the same area, nesting in mountains when streams are running but descending to valleys when the water is frozen. The Yellow Sea ...

Whether working onboard fishing vessels to introduce bird-friendly fishing techniques or pushing for the most important sites ... and in 2004 our marine programme established its Seabird Tracking ...

Photo from Dan Rapp, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service volunteer The oldest known banded wild bird is now ... Laysan albatross nest on land but spend long stretches at sea, according to the National ...