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  2. Grey-headed albatross - Wikipedia

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    The grey-headed albatross (Thalassarche chrysostoma) also known as the gray-headed mollymawk, is a large seabird from the albatross family. It has a circumpolar distribution, nesting on isolated islands in the Southern Ocean and feeding at high latitudes, further south than any of the other mollymawks. Its name derives from its ashy-gray head ...

  3. Albatross - Wikipedia

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    This maneuver allows the bird to cover almost 1,000 km/d (620 mi/d) without flapping its wings. Slope soaring uses the rising air on the windward side of large waves. Albatross have high glide ratios, around 22:1 to 23:1, meaning that for every metre they drop, they can travel forward twenty-two metres. [7]

  4. Albatross (metaphor) - Wikipedia

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    The Little River Band has a song called "Cool Change", which contains the line: "Albatross and the Whale are my brother". Christian Emocore band mewithoutYou references the albatross in their song "Bear's Vision of St. Agnes". Nightwish refers to albatross in their song "The Islander". Owl City refers to the albatross in the song "Hello Seattle".

  5. Southern royal albatross - Wikipedia

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    The southern royal albatross has a length of 112 to 123 cm (44–48 in) [13] and a mean weight of 8.5 kg (19 lb). At Campbell Island , 11 males were found to have a mean mass of 10.3 kg (23 lb) and 7 females were found to have a mean mass of 7.7 kg (17 lb), thus may be heavier on average than most colonies of wandering albatross. [ 4 ]

  6. Northern royal albatross - Wikipedia

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    The northern royal albatross or toroa, [3] (Diomedea sanfordi) is a large seabird in the albatross family.It was split from the closely related southern royal albatross as recently as 1998, though not all scientists support that conclusion and some consider both of them to be subspecies of the royal albatross.

  7. Gibson's albatross - Wikipedia

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    Gibson's albatross was originally described as a subspecies of the wandering albatross with the trinomial name Diomedea exulans gibsoni. [4] To authorities who accept the split of the Antipodean albatross from the wandering albatross, Gibson's is a subspecies of the Antipodean.

  8. Seabird - Wikipedia

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    There exists no single definition of which groups, families and species are seabirds, and most definitions are in some way arbitrary. Elizabeth Shreiber and Joanna Burger, two seabird scientists, said, "The one common characteristic that all seabirds share is that they feed in saltwater; but, as seems to be true with any statement in biology, some do not."

  9. Black-browed albatross - Wikipedia

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    East of Tasmania, Southern Ocean. The black-browed albatross is a medium-sized albatross, at 80 to 95 cm (31–37 in) long with a 200 to 240 cm (79–94 in) wingspan and an average weight of 2.9 to 4.7 kg (6.4–10.4 lb). [3]