It’s a classic birding bummer — sometimes a rare bird comes to light too late for birders to see it, to the chagrin of those ...

The Chatham albatross is critically endangered, with only about 11,000 of the birds remaining. Kennedy Warne Through the fog steamed our yacht, Mahalia, sliding down gray ocean swells. The gale ...

An Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross made a stunning appearance on a boat in Norwegian waters on 10 April. The bird landed on a ...

The world's oldest known wild bird has laid an egg at the impressive age of 74, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for the Pacific Region reports. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, was filmed by ...

I worked on Bird Island research station, just off mainland South Georgia, for two and a half years as a zoologist, studying the albatross populations there. It was a real privilege to get to work ...

A new longevity record of 42 years and seven months has been established in Japan for the short-tailed albatross, a species once so rare it was deemed extinct. The age of the bird was confirmed ...

In winter the birds decamp south as far as West Africa. To make this image, Wilkes and an assistant lugged his gear 122 steps uphill and set up near the ruins of a church about six feet from the ...

A fast spreading form of bird flu is devastating colonies where almost half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed on a remote island group halfway between South Africa and Antarctica. High ...

The two islands are uninhabited aside from researchers. The wandering albatross has the largest wingspan of any bird and they are famed for following ships. There are thought to be about 25,000 ...