The albatross is a truly awesome sight to be behold… but its also a creature in trouble !
Albatrosses are large seabirds in the family Diomedeidae. They are related 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. They are absent from the North Atlantic, although fossil remains show they once occurred there and occasional vagrants are found. Albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds, and species of the genus Diomedea (great albatrosses) have the longest wingspans of any extant birds, reaching up to 3.7 m (12 ft). The albatrosses are usually regarded as falling into four genera, but disagreement exists over the number of species. ( Wikipedia)
bird life international has excellent information files about many of the types of albatross including wandering albatross
Details about black brewed albatross
sooty albatross
Groups working to promote awareness of and save albatross from threats including the not insignificant ‘accidental killing’ of albatross resulting from hooks on fishing lines.
Groups – birdlife ; rspb uk ; albatross Task force
Following his shocking photographs of dead albatross chicks and the diet of plastic that killed them, Chris Jordan’s new film is a call to action to repair our broken relationship with planet Earth…. here
