The wandering albatross is endangered and are vulnerable.
Wandering albatrosses are still alive although they are becoming endangered.
Wandering albatrosses are regarded as “vulnerable” with the world population estimated at around 26,000 individual birds.
Albatrosses do live in Antarctica and in fact around 46 species of birds in Antarctica, including Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Petrels, Storm-Petrels, Diving petrels, Cormorants, Bitterns, Herons and Egrets, Ducks, Geese and Swans, Sheathbills, Skuas and Jaegers, Gulls.
Albatrosses do sleep and most albatrosses sleep while in flight or while in the air although some albatrosses sleep when on the water or land.
There are around 1.6 million mature individuals still remaining in the wild.
There are about 25.200 adult Wandering Albatrosses in the world today.
An albatross cannot carry a human unless they were carrying off a toddler human or small baby.
The albatross could not carry or lift up into the air an adult human as they are not strong enough.
An albatross can fly for years without landing although most often the albatross will land for breeding and for eating.
Albatrosses can spend up to six years at sea without touching land.
Albatrosses can live up to 50 or 60, perhaps even 70, years and they spend most of their lives in flight over the open ocean.
They only return to land to breed and raise their chicks at nesting sites found mainly on isolated oceanic islands.
A female albatross is called a wisdom albatross.
An albatross can fly for up to 10,000 miles without stopping which is around 45 to 46 days of flying although some albatross birds will stop and rest sooner than that even if they don't really need to rest.
The thing that is so special about albatross is their size and wingspan.
The albatross has a wingspan of between 3 and 5 meters and is one of the largest seabirds on Earth.
Albatrosses are known for their excellent flying skills, as well as for the difficulty they have with take-off and landing.
They can also glide for miles on end without having to flap their wings a single time.
An albatross is not a seagull although they are similar.
Albatross are largely carnivores whereas seagulls are omnivores.
And also albatross have a larger wingspan and weigh more than seagulls.
The albatross could be large to very large, while seagulls are medium to large in size.
The Albatross have an adaptation to remove salt from their feed but it is not present in sea gulls.
Seagulls inhabit inland or coastal environments, whereas albatross are always oceanic and barely stay on ground.
Albatross, (family Diomedeidae), any of more than a dozen species of large seabirds that collectively make up the family Diomedeidae (order Procellariiformes).
Because of their tameness on land, many albatrosses are known by the common names mollymawk (from the Dutch for “foolish gull”) and gooney.
Albatrosses, in the Diomedeidae family, are large seabirds that can have a wingspan of up to 11 feet, as documented by National Geographic here .
They are known for coming ashore only to breed ( here ).
This does not mean, however, that the bird spends years in the air flying without stopping.
With a wingspan of up to three and a half meters, the albatross is one of the largest seabirds on Earth.
Albatrosses are known for their excellent flying skills, as well as for the difficulty they have with take-off and landing.
They can glide for miles on end without having to flap their wings a single time.
Albatrosses are masters of soaring flight, able to glide over vast tracts of ocean without flapping their wings.
So fully have they adapted to their oceanic existence that they spend the first six or more years of their long lives (which last upwards of 50 years) without ever touching land.