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Albatrosses spend almost half of their life on the high seas, making them particularly vulnerable to being injured or killed by fishing boats.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

Albatrosses normally return to the same nesting spot every year.

From NewsForKids.net • Dec. 5, 2024

Albatrosses are the longest-living wild birds, soaring on wingspans up to three metres wide.

From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2020

Albatrosses can make it to 60 or so, and they look like wise elders from the moment they lose their juvenile plumage.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2019

Albatrosses are the largest of the sea birds and have an enormous expanse of wing, the Wandering Albatross, the largest of the family, sometimes attaining an expanse of fourteen feet.

From The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. by Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert)