If all goes to plan, officials hope to vaccinate up to 100 of the large seabirds on Albatross Island, giving each two doses ...

Albatross have fascinating beaks. Unlike most other birds, they have a "compound" beak made of multiple pieces of keratin. Albatross spend most of their lives at sea, so they have adapted to drink ...

Every year, wildlife biologists in the Hawaiian archipelago anxiously await an albatross named Wisdom. The world’s oldest known wild bird, 74, makes an annual pilgrimage to the Midway Atoll National ...

The wandering albatross carries the longest wingspan of any living bird, stretching up to roughly 12 feet from tip to tip. Those immense wings let the seabird glide across the vast Southern Ocean for ...

She is described as awesome. And wonderful. And maybe a little weird. She is the world’s oldest known living wild bird at age 62, and she produced a healthy chick that hatched Sunday. It's pretty ...

Wisdom, the Laysan albatross, has outlived several mating partners and even the biologist who first tagged her in 1956 In late November, someone spotted an albatross sitting atop an egg she'd laid on ...

Shock, combined with a little wonder at the unnatural. That’s how I feel as I watch the knife slice through the sternum of a dead Laysan albatross. Inside its ribcage: a sickening array of plastic. A ...

For this elder albatross — and new mother — the name “Wisdom” is well-earned. At 75 years old (at least), she may be no spring chicken, but this Laysan albatross of the north Pacific has lived through ...

Albatross are among the world’s largest flying birds, with wingspans that can stretch beyond a remarkable three metres. These majestic animals harness ocean winds to travel thousands of kilometres in ...