Photographer Georgina Strange photographing out of a British International helicopter with loadmaster John Smyth Bird Island - the ... the majestic Black-browed albatross in the Falkland Islands.

The Chatham albatross is critically endangered ... scientists can tell when the birds are flying and when they are resting or feeding on the sea, because the water is generally cooler than ...

the Navy killed more than 50,000 birds with bulldozers and flamethrowers to keep them from flying into their early, underpowered jet aircraft and causing crashes. The number of albatross held more ...

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 ...

Six months earlier, these birds had made an epic journey to get here, flying all the way from Alaska. Astonishingly, they didn’t stop along the way. For eight or nine days straight, they flew ...

4. The wandering albatross can glide for several hundred miles without a single wing flap - a remarkable feat that no other flying creature is capable of matching. The bird has inspired not only ...

From the Andean condor and the wandering albatross to the prehistoric giant ... This article explores the top 10 largest ...

The oldest known wild bird in the world has laid an egg at the ... The long-winged seabird named Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the northwestern ...

In the United Kingdom and much of the golfing world, “albatross” is the preferred term, evoking rarity and grace. In the United States, “double eagle” is more common, though somewhat mathematically ...