Albatross
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ALBATROSS (from the Port. Alcatraz, a pelican), the name of a genus of aquatic birds (Diomedea), closely allied to the petrels, and belonging, like them, to the order Tubinares.
Albatross Reproduction and Life Cycles
The Albatross nests in large colonies on islands, where there can be thousands of other Albatross individuals, ...
Albatross (Wandering)
Wandering albatross: Diomedea exulans
Distribution: The southern oceans and its small islands. Between Antarctica and the Tropic of Capricorn.
Habitat: Oceans and remote islands.
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific.
Albatross Watching: Albatrosses are popular birds for bird watchers and their colonies popular destinations for ecotourists.
Albatross
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(l´btrõs), common name for sea birds of the order of tube-nosed swimmers (Procellari-iformes), which includes petrels, shearwaters, and fulmars.
Albatross Seabird belonging to the order of tube nosed swimmers , which includes petrels , shearwaters , and fulmars . The albatross has a wingspan of about 10 to 12 ft. although the wings are only about 9 in. wide .
Albatrosses feed primarily on squid or schooling fish, but are familiar to mariners because they sometimes follow ships in hopes of dining on handouts or garbage.
Albatrosses
Albatrosses are large birds with long, narrow wings and very
heavy hooked beak.
The Albatrosses are mostly Southern Hemisphere birds, however
3 species breed north of the equator.
Albatross
Many albatross species are in trouble and need our help. Commercial fishing practices are considered the greatest threat to the survival of many albatross species.
Albatross, Wandering Diomedea exulans Found: Found: Africa, Australasia, The Southern Ocean
Photographed by: 1) Dimitri of the west coast of KerguelenDamasceno 2) Mark Jobling
3) Charlie Westerinen in the Drake's Passage ...
DUSKY ALBATROSS.
[Light-mantled Albatross.]
DIOMEDEA FUSCA, Aud.
[Phoebetria palpebrata.] ...
Sooty Albatross - profile
Scientific name: Phoebetria fusca
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
National conservation status: Vulnerable ...
Laysan Albatross
The island truly belongs to the Laysan Albatross from early October until August when the last juvenile leaves for the open sea.
Albatrosses are largely monogamous, returning to mate with the same partner at the same breeding site for a full lifespan, up to 20 years. They can spend up to a year rearing their young. The grey-headed albatross D.
Albatross cam for bird's eye view Albatrosses associate with killer whales out in the open ocean, tiny cameras attached to the birds reveal.
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albatrosses
Wandering Albatross - Diomedea exulans.
The wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) is an oceanic bird that flies low over the sea's surface, scooping up prey such as squid, fish, and other marine animals.
Lysan Albatross. White Gooney, White Gooney Bird, White Goonybird, Gooney Bird
Bird Family :
Diomedeidae - Albatrosses ...
"Record Albatross Numbers Tallied at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge." News Release: PIEA 06-04 (January 25, 2006). Pacific Islands External Affairs Office, US Fish and Wildlife Service. 2 Pages. Accessed 14 June 2007.
Remarks Albatrosses are birds of the trackless oceans, and most species are normally confined to the Southern Hemisphere. The huge adults of this species, with wingspans of 2.3 m, have white heads, necks, rumps and underparts, and dark upperparts.
Black-browed albatross colony on Saunders Island, Falkland Islands
The Black-browed Albatross or Black-browed Mollymawk,[3] Thalassarche melanophrys, is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae, ...
Black-browed Albatross
Diomedea melanophris
Local Name: Mollymawk
Breeding Range: Circumpolar on subantarctic islands
Length: 82cm.
Falklands Population: 550,000 breeding pairs
World Population: 650,000 breeding pairs ...
Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes
Described by: Audubon (1849)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): Diomedea nigripes ...
RangeThe laysan albatross breeds on islands in the mid-Pacific, especially islands in the Hawaiian chain. Occasionally it can be seen in the waters of the North Pacific and the Gulf of Alaska.
Albatross . . . Cockatoos . . . Doves [Columbiform] . . . Ostriches and the flightless birds . . . [[Falconiformes] . . . Grebes -[Podicipediformes] . . . Gulls. . . Hummingbirds. . . Ibis Flamingos -[Gruiformes] . . . Owls -[Strigiformes] . . .
Albatrosses, Petrels and Allies (Order Procellariiformes) The tube-nosed seabirds, as this group is sometimes called, spend much of their life on the high seas out of sight of land, gleaning food from the water's surface.
Albatrosses are among the most long-lived of birds and commonly reach the age of 30-40 years, with a record going to a Royal from the colony at Taiaroa Head near Dunedin, a bird named Grandma who was still producing young past her sixtieth birthday.
Albatrosses, birds of legend
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Fiji Petrel found at sea ' pungent fish ...
Albatrosses (DIOMEDEIDAE)
Shearwaters and Petrels (PROCELLARIIDAE)
Storm-Petrels (HYDROBATIDAE)
Pelicans and Allies (PELECANIFORMES) ...
The albatross flies huge distances, and rarely comes to land.
Running ...
Genus Albatrossia
Genus Asthenomacrurus
Genus Caelorinchus
Rough-head whiptail or Oblique banded rattail, Caelorinchus aspercephalus Waite, 1911
Javelin (fish), Javelinfish, or Southern whiptail, Caelorinchus australis (Richardson, 1839) ...
Campbell albatross (Thalassarche impavida)
Gould's petrel (Pterodroma leucoptera)
Buller's shearwater (Puffinus bulleri)
White-necked petrel (Pterodroma cervicalis)
Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) ...
Buller's Albatrosses
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The Royal Albatross' eggs take 79 days to hatch.
The egg of the hummingbird is the world's smallest bird's egg; the egg of the ostrich, the world's largest.
The now-extinct elephant bird of Madagascar laid an egg that weighed 27 pounds.
Short-tailed Albatross
Phoebastria albatrus
[n. Pacific Ocean]
Almost entirely wiped out by shooting, egging, and volcanic eruptions on Tori-shima I., its primary breeding grounds off Japan, today it is making a slow comeback.
PROCELLARIIFORMES
albatrosses & petrels
NO CURRENT ENTRIES
PELECANIFORMES
pelicans, cormorants, darters, tropic birds, frigatebirds, gannets, & boobies ...
Albatross Is., Babel Is., Badger Is., Bayne Is., Big Green Is., Black Pyramid, Boxen Is., Bruny Is., Cape Barren Is., Chalky Is., Cone Is., Craggy Is., Curtiss Is., Deal Is., Devils Tower, De Witt Is., Doughboy Is., East Forster Is., East Hogan Is.
"Dynamic soaring" refers to flight made possible by flying into a sustained wind, such as occurs at sea, and no birds can match the albatrosses.
Texas has two records for Yellow-nosed Albatross and even a record for White-chinned Petrel. The PO'C trips are overdue for either tropicbird ( a Red-billed Tropicbird was seen on a Venice, LA trip on June 9, 1996).
Grimpoteuthis albatrossi (Sasaki, 1920)
Grimpoteuthis antarctica (Kubodera & Okutani, 1986)
Grimpoteuthis bathynectes (Voss & Pearcy, 1990)
Grimpoteuthis boylei (Collins, 2003)
Grimpoteuthis bruuni (Voss, 1982) ...
Seabirds, related to albatrosses and sharing peculiar arrangement of nostrils, giving the alternative name, 'tubenoses'.
The Fulmar is closely related to the Albatrosses in a group of birds sometimes referred to as "tube-noses".
The ambitious atlas, compiled from data gathered over a decade, shows how albatrosses, penguins, elephant seals, and other marine animals use a critical region of the South Atlantic Ocean.
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agassizii are sometimes found with seals and albatrosses basking on the beach (Pritchard 1967). When it is time to mate they migrate from several hundred to over a thousand miles across the ocean to where they hatched.
There have been several sightings of live Arnoux's Beaked Whales in Antarctic waters, in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, and around Albatross Cordillera in the South Pacific.
According to Elliott Norse (see reading list), on Midway Island, 1,600 km from the nearest land, all 300 Albatross chicks examined had plastic in their stomachs, including plastic toys, bottle caps, and balloons.
LONGEST WING SPANS
The birds with the longest wing spans are the marabou stork, a scavenger with a wing span of 8 -13 feet (2.4-4 m), the wandering albatross, whose wingspan is up to about 12.5-13 feet (3.8-4 m).
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The Waved Albatross ...
All members of the family have tube-like nostrils on the top of their upper beak and are believed to be one of the few bird families with a well-developed sense of smell. Almost all breed in burrows and, like the albatrosses, ...
Some of the larger psittacine species like hyacinth macaws and sulphur-crested cockatoos have thin egg shells, as do the albatrosses. Chickens and ducks, on the other hand, tend to have very thick egg shells.
 See also: Petrel, Seabird, Penguin, Falcon, Pigeon
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