Tag: Albatross

The Polar Retrospective – Wandering Antarctic birds moving beyond their boundaries

Dr. Michael Wenger

Two penguins that went astray thousands of miles and wandering albatrosses that are less wind-loving than assumed show how Antarctic birds are moving their boundaries.

Less sea ice in the Antarctic, poorer food availability for seabirds?

Julia Hager

Food availability for seabirds, such as albatrosses that breed on sub-Antarctic islands, may decline as the nutrient-rich seasonal sea ice zone increasingly retreats due to global warming.

Kerguelen Island cats, the albatrosses' bête noire

Camille Lin

Mammals introduced to islands benefit from the "surprise effect" on an evolutionary scale, causing the disappearance of many seabirds. On Kerguelen, hyperspecialized cats threaten the chicks of great albatrosses.

House mice kill adult albatrosses on subantarctic islands

Julia Hager

On Gough Island and Marion Island, introduced house mice inflict severe wounds on adult Tristan and wandering albatrosses, which can lead to the death of the large seabirds.

Shy or bold - Wandering albatrosses have personality and strategies

Camille Lin

Albatrosses have different personalities, and these "characters" influence their fishing strategies, which are intimately linked to wind strength.

"Deratization" of Amsterdam Island

Camille Lin

Amsterdam Island will soon be free of introduced species that spread avian cholera.

Risk areas discovered for wandering albatrosses in the Southern Ocean

Dr. Michael Wenger

A study has discovered the areas of greatest risk to the birds from fishing for different age groups of wandering albatrosses.

Shy wandering albatrosses are divorced more often

Dr. Michael Wenger

On the sub-Antarctic Crozet Archipelago, boldly performing wandering albatross males get farther and are less divorced than shy males.

Black-browed albatross returns to Yorkshire

Julia Hager

A very special feathered guest is currently once again delighting visitors to a nature reserve in Yorkshire, England.

Wandering albatros feel upwind

Peter Balwin

Since time immemorial, legends and myths have been swirling around the wandering albatross. Today, the largest seabird is doing well. Because of climate change.