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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 ingest plastic; humans and marsupials flee the burning bush; migrants are set adrift, and the Mariner’s albatross becomes a pangolin or a bat.

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 sometimes caught by those on board ship.

From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by Leach, John Albert