Great albatrosses, a species of the Diomedea genus, have the longest wingspan among extant birds — they can reach up to 12 feet. Albatrosses are known for their efficiency while flying and for ...

The "great albatrosses," the wandering and royal albatrosses, have the widest wingspans—ten feet or more—of any living bird. These are the birds of legend: ...

A Buller's albatross looks across the tall cliffs of the Forty Fours Like the other five species of great albatross, Northern Royals are under pressure for a variety of reasons.

Saw my first albatross on 12 January 1984. It was a day I shall never forget. I had been invited by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) to join their research and supply vessel, the John Biscoe, as ...

Three species of albatross breed in and around South Georgia - the wandering, or great albatross; the black-browed albatross and the grey-headed albatross. Numbers of the wandering albatross are down ...

Same-sex albatross love is warming hearts in the icy, subantarctic waters south of New Zealand. On Sunday, Frozen Planet II, the popular BBC wildlife series, took viewers to the remote Antipodes ...

As a group, only parrots may be more threatened than albatrosses. The reason boils down to a juxtaposition of birds and people. Some of the ocean’s richest industrial fishing grounds are also key ...