Tag: albatross

Climate change may be changing the mating behaviors of albatrosses, researchers found. The birds usually mate for life, but the birds are increasingly divorcing. In a study conducted by New...

A new bill introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives late last month would classify the “global wildlife extinction crisis” as a national emergency. That would require the U.S. Fish...

When albatross populations on the Hawaiian island of Kauai found themselves under aerial attack, the U.S. Navy and biologists teamed up to find the birds a new home. A population...

On the British overseas territory of Gough Island in the South Atlantic, albatross numbers are plummeting, and researchers say the reason is introduced house mice. The researchers discovered that the...

A recent study from the University of California, Davis might help explain why some seabirds eat so much plastic debris. While it’s widely thought that birds visually mistake plastic for...

A bill introduced in Congress last week would heighten U.S. involvement in the protection of migratory seabird populations placed at risk by some international fishing operations. The Albatross and Petrel...

It was the middle of a traditional ceremony to maintain cultural ties to a tiny atoll, which sits on the northwest of the Hawaiian archipelago about a third of the...