The albatross is a large seabird and part of the Diomedeidae family. The bird is commonly found in the North Pacific and the Southern Ocean and can’t be seen in the North Atlantic. It is one of the ...

Albatross parents take turns incubating an egg for about seven months. Chicks fly out to sea about five to six months after hatching. They spend most of their lives flying over the ocean and ...

By Sara Ruberg The world’s oldest known wild bird, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom, is expected to welcome another baby chick in the coming months, astonishing scientists who have ...

Chris Jordan's 2009 photos of dead albatross chicks with plastic in their guts went viral. Anna Turns looks at how it changed our response to the plastics crisis When photographer Chris Jordan ...

However, I was equally shocked to come across pellets that albatross chicks had regurgitated just before they fledge and to find in amongst it evidence of plastic ingestion. The chicks get the ...

The Laysan albatross was first banded (or marked ... and brought as many as 30 chicks to the fledgling state, NPR's Bill Chappell reported. But it still feels like a marvel to watch her keep ...

Our bus has to zig and zag to avoid what look like a million albatross chicks wandering around the lawns and streets. I have always entertained a vague notion of the albatross as lord of the air ...

Progress is unhurried because the northern royal albatross lives long and slowly; after their first flight, chicks stay at sea for 4 to 10 years — traveling up to 118,000 miles a year — then ...