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More About Albatrosses ...
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"The albatrosses (from Portuguese Alcatraz, a pelican) are seabirds in the family Diomedeidae, which is closely allied to the petrels. They were once commonly known as Goonie birds or Gooney birds".
Albatrosses travel huge distances using a technique used by many long-winged seabirds called dynamic soaring. This enables them to minimise the effort needed by gliding across wave fronts gaining energy from the vertical wind gradient. They are aerodynamically very efficient.
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Taxonmony
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Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Diomedeidae
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Source: Wikipedia Read more about Albatrosses
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