Only a single unsuccessful breeding pair returned to the Northwest Hawaiian Islands in 2022. New threats to the short-tailed albatross that did not exist when this species was included in Appendix I ...

Birdwatchers aboard a seabird tour off the coast of Sonoma and Marin counties over the weekend are the first people in U.S. waters to spot a species of albatross that normally lives near the Galapagos ...

This YouTube clip, released in 2019 as part of a BBC documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough, is so heartbreaking that it reduced many viewers to tears. Many people expressed their distress on ...

The United Kingdom’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has recorded the first known instance of invasive mice preying on the adult albatrosses, according to a press release. Past ...

They are retreating into smaller areas of ocean and traveling further to find new places to live as Earth's climate rapidly ...

POIPU >> When a moli, or Laysan albatross, took its first flight from the hotel grounds of The Point at Poipu Kauai on July 9, Hob Osterlund was thrilled. “She was just over five months old,” said ...

As long-lived predators at the top of the marine food chain, albatrosses accumulate toxic contaminants such as PCBs, DDT, and mercury in their bodies. A new study has found dramatic differences in ...

ON THE FACE of things, the Laysan albatross is doing fairly well. Its population is estimated at around 1.6m, and may be growing. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies ...

Most albatross mate for life, but shy males who avoid confrontation are more likely to be displaced by a more aggressive male, leading to divorce A wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), also known ...