Some species of albatrosses, for example, are so reliant on the wind that they struggle to take off when conditions are calm. However, one study also found that there is an upper limit to the beneficial effects of the wind. Researchers attached small tracking devices to albatrosses on South Georgia island in the southwest Atlantic Ocean. They found that during extremely strong storm winds, two species of albatrosses struggled to eat as the conditions made finding food difficult or dangerous.

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Albatrosses use their formidable wingspans to catch and ride air currents, allowing them to soar just above the ocean surface without expending undue energy on flapping. Researchers have modelled their flight and found that they stay aloft by alternately soaring and diving between currents of air moving at different speeds – a flight pattern known as dynamic soaring.

Once their young have fledged the nest and flown away, parent albatrosses often take a year off breeding, and most species migrate long distances. Some, like wandering and grey-headed albatrosses, circumnavigate the entire Southern Ocean. Birds can travel 1,000km in a single day, with one grey-headed albatross recorded as travelling the whole way around Antarctica in just 46 days.

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Albatrosses are known to fly for extremely long distances. A single wandering albatross, for example, can fly the equivalent of 10 times to the moon and back over their lifetime.

When raising chicks, albatrosses range far and wide looking for food to bring back to their offspring. Wandering albatrosses are known to travel more than 10,000km in a single foraging trip, travelling from Antarctica to sub-tropical waters on trips lasting between 10–20 days.

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Interestingly, albatrosses are one of the few animals able to drink seawater. Seawater is too salty for most animals – including humans – to drink as it dangerously dehydrates the body. However, as albatrosses spend months at a time flying in the open ocean, they have evolved salt glands behind their eyes that filter out excess salt from their blood. The glands excrete a concentrated salt solution, which then drains out through the tip of the beak.

Albatrosses are also known to follow ships for days in the hope of scavenging a tasty meal, feeding on garbage and offal. They have also been known to scavenge the meat of floating carcasses.

Wandering albatrosses can gorge themselves so much on ship garbage that they become unable to fly and must rest for a while, floating on the water.

a study by the University of Oxford found that black-browed albatrosses can dive up to 19m (62ft) into the sea in pursuit of their prey, staying under water for up to 52 seconds.

Albatrosses have also been known to feed using a somewhat unusual method. At night, they have been observed spinning around on the surface of the ocean, sometimes for hours at a time. The movement causes bioluminescent animals in the local vicinity to glow, attracting squid which the albatross then eats.

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