The Albatross

Albatrosses are large seabirds that live in the oceans.

Albatrosses are spectacular gliders, indeed they can stay aloft in windy weather for hours without ever flapping their wings.

In calm air an albatross prefers to rest on the water surface.

Like other oceanic birds, albatrosses drink seawater. They normally live on squid, they also are accompany ships to feed on garbage.

Albatrosses come ashore only to breed.

Albatrosses live long and may be among the few birds to die of old age.

Seamen once held that killing an albatross would bring bad luck.

In spite of this superstition, the birds were often taken on baited hooks by sailors for meat.

The foot web could be fashioned into a tobacco pouch, and the long hollow bones were used as pipestems.