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Albatrosses in history
Albatrosses have always featured in art, literature and science from their very first description by early sailors. This timeline picks out the highlights over the last 400 years.
How Albatrosses fly
Albatrosses are famous for their powers of flight, in particular their ability to endlessly glide low over the waves, without flapping.
Albatross beaks
Albatrosses have large, long, hooked beaks, each made up of 12 distinct plates. Made of keratin, they are dark in young birds, but gain colouring as the birds mature, attaining bright yellow and orange colours in some species.
How Albatrosses eat
Most breeding birds share responsibility for incubation of their eggs and change over at the nest regularly to allow each partner to feed. When the young hatch, the parents travel back and forth to their nest many times a day with food.
