Using drone imagery, New Zealand researchers are evaluating a deep learning model called BirdDetector, as it analyzes ...

The famed albatrosses of Midway Atoll took a beating from the tsunami, but their population will survive, say biologists on the islands. There are, of course, more pressing concerns in the tsunami ...

These critically endangered albatrosses are being plagued by mice Gough Island’s Tristan albatrosses are in even more peril than scientists thought. By Ryan Truscott / Hakai Magazine ...

Albatrosses at Risk The Wandering Albatross, the world's largest flying bird has a wing span of up to 3.5 metres and can travel several thousand kilometres across the sea on a single journey.

Like many seabirds, black-browed albatrosses form monogamous pairs that can last for the entirety of their 70-year lifespans. However, just under 4% of these couples will separate each year.

Talk about a deep dive! Albatrosses can plunge up to 62ft underwater to pursue prey—more than twice as deep as previously thought, study reveals University of Oxford-led experts studied the ...

In wandering albatrosses, we measured personality in two different ways. The first is what is called a human approach, where a person walks towards a bird incubating an egg on the nest and records its ...

Albatrosses will often try to take the bait on longline fishing gear. They get snagged on the hooks, are pulled under the water and are drowned.

For albatrosses, whose couplings can take years to solidify, that can mean stripping away multiple opportunities to reproduce—a real waste, if nothing was wrong with their initial choice.

Data from the albatrosses showed that about 30 per cent of ships in international waters had no AIS signal, which most registered ships broadcast. (Image courtesy of Julien Collet) ...