Examples of albatross

• Long-ranging birds, like albatrosses, and most commercial aircraft maximize aspect ratio.

• The great albatrosses are predominantly white in plumage as adults, with birds becoming whiter as they age.

• However, some seabirds, particularly, the albatrosses and gulls, have broken into popular consciousness.

• Albatrosses in calm seas are forced to rest on the ocean's surface until the wind picks up again.

• The exceptions are the huge albatrosses, several of the gadfly petrels and shearwaters and the fulmar-petrels.

• The principal threat to the albatrosses and larger species of procellariids is long-line fishing.

• By far the majority of the breeding species are penguins, petrels and albatrosses.

• Commercial longline fishing is also one of the main threats to albatrosses.