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Bookmark or Share- The Albatross Soars Over Thousands of Miles of Open OceanThe albatross is one of nature's most impressive flyers, soaring effortlessly over the ocean for days or weeks at a time, often without flapping its wings for hours. These majestic seabirds are built for gliding across vast distances as they search for food and connect distant parts of the world. Albatrosses are among the largest flying birds on Earth.
- Albatross | Largest Seabird, Migration & Conservation | BritannicaAlbatross, (family Diomedeidae), any of more than a dozen species of large seabirds that collectively make up the family Diomedeidae (order Procellariiformes). Because of their tameness on land, many albatrosses are known by the common names mollymawk (from the Dutch for “foolish gull”) and gooney.
- Albatross - WikipediaThe "albatross" designation comprises between 13 and 24 species (the number is still a matter of some debate, with 21 being the most commonly accepted number) in four genera. These genera are the great albatrosses (Diomedea), the mollymawks (Thalassarche), the North Pacific albatrosses (Phoebastria), and the sooty albatrosses or sooties ...
- 8 Amazing Albatross Facts - TreehuggerAn albatross is a large, magnificent seabird capable of soaring incredible distances without rest. Long viewed with superstitious awe by sailors, they spend most of their time gliding over the ...
- Great albatross - WikipediaThe great albatrosses are seabirds in the genus Diomedea in the albatross family. The genus Diomedea formerly included all albatrosses except the sooty albatrosses , but in 1996 the genus was split, with the mollymawks and the North Pacific albatrosses both being elevated to separate genera.
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