Wandering albatross

The Wandering Albatross, Snowy Albatross, or White-winged Albatross, and BirdLife International has already split it. Together with the Amsterdam Albatross it forms the Wandering Albatross species complex. The Wandering Albatross is the largest member of the genus Diomedea , one of the largest birds in the world, and is one of the best known and studied species of bird in the world.

The Wandering albatross is classified as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

The Wandering Albatross is the largest member of the genus Diomedea (the great albatrosses), one of the largest birds in the world, and is one of the best known and studied species of bird in the world. Contents - * 1 Taxonomy * 2 Etymology * 3 Description * 4 Ecology * 4. More

Wandering Albatross is a 43' steel cutter designed for blue–water sailing and high–latitude adventures. Her owners, Gary and Kirstin, have made the sea their home for over 15 years and are committed to preserving the extraordinary natural beauty of the world's oceans. Norway and Iceland continue to hunt whales in the North Atlantic while Japan targets species in the Southern Ocean. More

The Wandering Albatross was first described as Diomedea exulans by Carolus Linnaeus, in 1758, based on a specimen from the Cape of Good Hope. Wandering Albatross have two sub-species as follows * Diomedea exulans exulans * Diomedea exulans gibsoni The gibsoni subspecies nests on the Crozet Islands and Marion Island. More

Wandering albatrosses hold the record for the bird with the largest wingspan, with some individuals measuring 3.5 metres. They spend most of their life on the wing, returning to land only to court a mate and to breed. What do they sound like? - 1. More

Wandering albatross in flight, over the open sea. The wandering albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird, with the wingspan between, up to 12' from wingtip to wingtip. It can soar on the open ocean for hours at a time, riding the updrafts from individual swells, with a glide ratio of 22 units of distance for every unit of drop. The wandering albatross can live up to 23 years. They hunt at night on the open ocean for cephalopods, small fish, and crustaceans. More

The Wandering Albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird, with the wingspan between 251–350 cm (8.2–11.5 ft). The longest-winged examples verified have been about 3.7 m (12 ft), but probably apocryphal reports of as much as 5.3 m (17 ft) are known. More

The Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans), is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It was the first species of albatross to be described, and was long considered the same species as the Tristan Albatross and the Antipodean Albatross (in fact a few authors still consider them all subspecies of the same species). Together with the Amsterdam Albatross it forms the Wandering Albatross species complex. More

A wandering albatross moves over the ocean waves using its favorite form of flight - gliding. image This bird spends most of its life on the wing. The wandering albatross is a famous and mysterious bird that few of us ever see. Its fame began with sea stories in the days of sailing ships. Those few sailors who ventured into the stormy waters of the southern oceans had a story to tell. More

The wandering albatross is a truly remarkable bird. South Georgia residents of the species have been known to make regular fishing trips that take them as far as the seas off Uruguay and southern Brazil. Round trips of thousands of kilometres over several days repeated frequently, and all to catch food for themselves and their young. More

"The Wandering Albatross is the whitest of the Wandering Albatross species complex..." This essentially says that "X is a subset of X," which simply doesn't make any sense. I just tried to fix it by removing the second "Wandering," but my edit was reverted. So rather than get into a reversion war, let's figure out how to clean this up. Clearly, the two "X"s need to be differentiated from each other somehow. More

wandering albatross, a bird of huge size and majesty. From the BBC. BBCWorldwide — 9 février 2007 — David Attenborough watches the wandering albatross, a bird of huge size and majesty. From the BBC. More

The Wandering Albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird, with the average wingspan being 3.1 meters (10.2 feet). The longest-winged examples verified have been about 3.7 m (12 feet), but probably erroneous reports of as much as 5.3 m (17.5 feet) are known. As a result of its wingspan, it is capable of remaining in the air without beating its wings for several hours at a time (traveling 22 meters for every meter of drop). . More

Wandering Albatross - Wandering Albatross information - Wandering Albatross facts Diomedea exulans can be found mostly in southern oceans. It has got the greatest widespan of all living birds. Generally their widespan is up to 350 cm (over 11 feet) but albatrosses with widespan almost 400 cm were also observed. Its weight varies from 6 to 12 kg (13-26 lb) and its length is up to 140 cm (55 iches). More

Wandering albatross in gliding flight Wandering albatross in gliding flightPrint factsheet Facts - Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Aves Order Procellariiformes Family Diomedeidae Genus Diomedea (1) Size Length: 1. More

The impressive wandering albatross has the largest recorded wingspan of any bird, reaching up to a massive 3.5 metres across (2). Juveniles have chocolate-brown feathers and a white facemask but over time the white colouration expands, leaving only black at the edges of the wings and tail tip (4); they take up to nine years to reach adult plumage (5). The hooked bill is pink and the flesh-coloured legs end in webbed feet, reflecting the largely oceanic life-style of this bird (4). More

Wandering Albatross at South Georgia Island Wandering Albatross at South Georgia Island Sailors used to capture the birds for their long wing bones, which they manufactured into tobacco-pipe stems. The early explorers of the great Southern Sea cheered themselves with the companionship of the albatross in their dreary solitudes; and the evil fate of him who shot with his cross-bow the "bird of good omen" is familiar to readers of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. More

knots and for the first time on Wandering Albatross we were dreaming of a spinnaker. We had the pole up almost all the way, sailing goose-winged in calm sea (see photo). Frequent windshifts meant we had to jibe both the main and the jib at least once a day, always entertaining. The gentle blue days merged into silver, star-studded nights and time lost all importance as we drifted along in our own world, absorbed in the rhythm of the sea. More

Erik and Erika, a pair of wandering albatrosses, are nesting on Bird Island. Their chick, Eriksson, started to hatch on 8 March. Follow their story with weekly updates on the birds at the nest, or track the parents on the map as they forage for food across the ocean. Latest news - How safe are Erik and Erika? - Erik and Erika have been feeding mainly within 500km of Bird Island. The couple of longer trips were ‘only’ 1000 km or so from the nest. More

Wandering Albatrosses nest on flat open ground, affording plenty of room to take off on windless days. The diet consists principally of squid and fish. Studies conducted by the British Antarctic Survey on Bird Island, South Georgia have shown that breeding Wandering Albatrosses regularly undertake feeding runs to the seas off Brazil to obtain food for the chick. Such a journey of over 3750 miles (6000 km) take about 8 days during and typically yield a 1-2 kg meal for the chick. More

Nice selection of Wandering albatross video clips available in various formats Albatross MOV View Movie OceanFootage.com Albatross Mating Ritual Albatross MOV View Movie OceanFootage.com Albatross Mating Ritual Black-Browed Albatross MOV View Movie OceanFootage.com Black-Browed Albatrosses In Storm Black-Browed Albatross MOV View Movie OceanFootage. More

* The Wandering Albatross is the largest of the albatrosses and is the living bird with the greatest wingspan, measuring almost 3.5 m * The body length is up to 1. More

Wandering Albatross: Is Foraging Efficiency a Key Parameter in Aging? = ScienceDaily (Apr. 2, 2010) — The male wandering albatross, which can live more than 50 years, modifies its foraging behavior with age. CNRS researchers, working with the Université de Bourgogne, have for the first time shown such changes by studying aging in these birds under natural conditions. More

5 meters, the Wandering Albatross is renowned as having the longest wings of any living bird. Weighing up to 12 kilograms (with an average of between 7 and 10 kilograms) they are almost among the heaviest flying birds. Wandering Albatrosses range throughout the Southern Ocean, using their long, slender wings to obtain a free ride from the prevailing winds. More

The wandering albatross has the largest wingspan of any bird and is perhaps the most magnificent of all twelve species of albatross. It is aptly named as it is a great traveller, covering enormous distances, gliding effortlessly on updraughts. It sometimes spends several months in the air, without ever touching land. Flying and feeding The wandering albatross has a huge home range consisting of the 77 million square kilometres of the southern oceans. More