The Wandering Albatross was the first Albatross to be discovered and described. It lives in all the southern oceans.

They seem to hang in the air because of their huge wingspan - up to 12 feet or more.

The male Wandering Albatross has whiter wings than the female.

Classification

Order:  Procellariiformes
Family:  Diomedeidae
Genus:  Diomedea
Species:  D. exulan

Photos:

Wandering Albatross courting

Female Wandering Albatross, Diomedea exulans, gliding over the Drake Passage

Wandering Albatross on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Wandering Albatross. To take full advantage of Flickr, you should use a JavaScript-enabled browser and install the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player. Wandering Albatross by m…   Read more…

Video:

New Video: Wandering Albatross (added by gregbaker)

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Discussion: 

Shearwater’s Journeys: BREAKING NEWS: WANDERING ALBATROSS

With great excitement, I am relaying a report from Sophie Webb of a WANDERING ALBATROSS which was seen today from the research vessel, McArthur II, 280 miles west of San Jose, California, and 2…   Read more…

Steve Krause : Blog: The Wandering Albatross

In a museum recently, I saw what appeared to be a seagull the size of a turkey. Had the taxidermist supersized this specimen? No, it was a real bird—and, as I learned, an extraordinary and endangere…   Read more…

PEEPS: Wandering Albatross - Oregon

On 13 September a Perpetua Bank pelagic trip came upon a large albatross, larger than Short-tailed Albatross, one of the subspecies (species?) of Wandering Albatross, Diomedea exu…   Read more…

My First Pelagic Trip

(Only 4 Albatross in the region have white backs.) It was a young Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans), the largest of all albatrosses having the largest wingspan of any living …   Read more…

albatrosses of the antarctic converge

these are some of the largest birds on the planet and the wandering albatross has the largest wingspan in the world: almost 12 feet on a body that is almost 4.5 feet in length! the smaller of t…   Read more…

Sooties!

On the cliff above are nesting Wandering Albatross chicks and other big birds. Wandering Albatross Chick - biggest baby bird I’ve ever seen. I’m not sure they make Thanksgiving t…   Read more…