Todd Pusser / Black browed albatross pair {Thalassarche melanophrys} Falkland Islands

Todd Pusser / Black browed albatross in flight {Thalassarche melanophrys} Falkland Is

Nick Garbutt / Black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) flying over South Atlantic. Cooper Bay, South Georgia. November.

Jordi Chias / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) flying on the open ocean, Drake passage, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.

John Shaw / Black-browed albatross pair (Thalassarche melanophris) mutual grooming during copulation. New Island, Falkland Islands, November.

David Tipling / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) Southern Ocean near South Georgia, November

Sandesh Kadur / Pair of Waved albatrosses (Phoebastria irrorata) displaying, tapping beaks, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Tui De Roy / Short tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) subadult with fish-hook and monofilament line embedded in throat. Tsubamezaki, Torishima Island, Japan. December.

Tui De Roy / Short tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) subadults courting, one with fish-hook and monofilament line embedded in throat. Tsubamezaki, Torishima Island, Japan. December.

Tui De Roy / Waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata) on nest, with fish hook in throat, Punta Suarez, Espanola Island, Galapagos.

Tui De Roy / Waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata) group of three on nest, Punta Suarez, Espanola Island, Galapagos

Tui De Roy / Waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata) pair in courtship display at nest site, Punta Suarez, Espanola Island, Galapagos

Tui De Roy / Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos) pair, Gough Island, Gough and Inaccessible Islands UNESCO World Heritage Site, South Atlantic. Endangered.

Tui De Roy / Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos) courtship display sequence. Gough Island, Gough and Inaccessible Islands UNESCO World Heritage Site, South Atlantic.

Tui De Roy / Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos). nesting amid Blechnum palmiforme tree ferns. Gough Island, Gough and Inaccessible Islands UNESCO World Heritage Site, South Atlantic.

Claudio Contreras / Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) close up resting, West Point Island, Falkland Islands, October

Fred Olivier / Close-up of a Black browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) preening its chick, chick looks up panting, thermoregulating, West Point Island, Falkland Islands.

Fred Olivier / Tilt shot of a Black browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) with its chick on a nest, New Island, Falkland Islands.

Fred Olivier / Close-up of a pair of Black browed albatrosses (Thalassarche melanophris) mutual grooming, New Island, Falkland Islands.

Fred Olivier / Black browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) chick in nest, interacting with a Southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) chick, New Island, Falkland Islands.

Fred Olivier / Pair of Black browed albatrosses (Thalassarche melanophris) display bonding, touching beaks, New Island, Falkland Islands.

Peter Bassett / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) chick stretching its wings, Prion Island, South Georgia.

Fred Olivier / Close-up of a Light-mantled sooty albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata) building its nest, Macquarie Island, Sub-Antarctic Australia.

Tui De Roy / Waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata) pair displaying on coast Galapagos, Ecuador. Critically Endangered species.

Tui De Roy / Waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata) pair in courtship display, Galapagos, Ecuador. Critically Endangered species.

David Tipling / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) displaying to bird flying overhead on Albatross Island, South Georgia, January

David Tipling / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) a pair displaying at dusk, Albatross Island, South Georgia January

David Tipling / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) pair displaying at dusk in ritual bonding behaviour, Albatross Island in Bay of Isles, South Georgia January

Brent Stephenson / Southern royal albatross (Diomedea epomophora) flying over sea, Off Stewart Island, New Zealand, November, Vulnerable species.

Brent Stephenson / Southern royal albatross (Diomedea epomophora) flying low over the sea, off Stewart Island, New Zealand, November, Vulnerable species.

Franco Banfi / Cory's shearwaters (Calonectris diomedea) diving among a mass of shoaling fish to feed, along with Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis), Formigas Islet dive site, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic...

Franco Banfi / Cory's shearwaters (Calonectris diomedea) diving among a mass of shoaling fish to feed, along with Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis), Formigas Islet dive site, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic...

Mark MacEwen / Northern royal albatross (Diomedea sanfordi), early pairing behaviour, Taiaroa Head, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand. Endangered.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Campbell albatross (Thalassarche impavida) in flight, silhouetted at sunset, near Campbell Islands, Sub-Antarctic New Zealand. February.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Campbell albatross (Thalassarche impavida) in flight, silhouetted at sunset, near Campbell Islands, Sub-Antarctic New Zealand. February.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Light-mantled sooty albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata) in flight, Auckland Island, Sub-Antarctic New Zealand. February.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata) pair in courtship display, Espanola, Galapagos Islands. Critically endangered species.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), engaged in mating display. South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), engaged in mating display. South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), engaged in mating display. South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), engaged in mating display. South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), engaged in mating display. South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), engaged in mating display. South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), feeding and cleaning.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), engaged in mating display. South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), feeding and cleaning.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross, (Diomedea exulans), fighting for fish scraps.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), feeding and cleaning.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), engaged in mating display. South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) flying off coast of South Georgia Island.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), engaged in mating. South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), engaged in mating display. South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), engaged in mating display. South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), in flight over South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) flying off coast of South Georgia Island. Silhouetted.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), feeding and cleaning.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Black browed albatros (Thalassarche melanophrys), Cape Point, South Africa.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Shy Albatros (Thalassarche cauta) swimming at surface with Blue sharks (Prionace glauca) below, Cape Point, South Africa.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Sooty Albatros (Phoebetria fusca) at sea off South Georgia Island, Antarctica

Mark Carwardine / Buller's albatross (Thalassarche bulleri) in flight, Chatham Islands, off southern New Zealand

Mark Carwardine / Buller's albatross (Thalassarche bulleri) flying over sea, Chatham Islands, off southern New Zealand

Mark Carwardine / Buller's albatross (Thalassarche bulleri) flying over sea, Chatham Islands, off southern New Zealand

Mark Carwardine / Buller's albatross (Thalassarche bulleri) flying over sea, Chatham Islands, off southern New Zealand

Mark Carwardine / Buller's albatross / Mollymawk (Thalassarche / Thalassarche bulleri) in flight, Chatham Islands, off southern New Zealand

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) in flight low over ocean near Maquarie Island, Australia. November.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Shy Albatross (Thalassarche cauta) in flight, Auckland Islands, New Zealand. November.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Southern Royal Albatross (Diomedea epomophora) in flight low over ocean, Auckland Island, New Zealand. November.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Shy Albatross (Thalassarche cauta) in flight against sunrise sky. Snares Islands, New Zealand. November. November.

Andy Trowbridge / Gibson's Albatross / Toroa (Diomedea antipodensis gibsoni) or Kaikoura Coast, Kaikoura, South Island, New Zealand. January.

Brent Stephenson / Buller's albatross (Thalassarche bulleri) flying low with wing tip cutting the surface of a calm sea. Off Napier, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

Brent Stephenson / Buller's albatross (Thalassarce bulleri) landing on the sea with wings outstretched off Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Brent Stephenson / New Zealand Albatross (Diomedea antipodensis) in flight, showing upperwing, wingtip touching the sea surface. Off Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand, October.

Brent Stephenson / Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos) banking in flight while looking down. Tristan da Cunha, Tristan Group, South Atlantic, March.

Troels Jacobsen/Arcticphoto / Portrait of a Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchus) standing on grassed ground. Nightingale Island, Tristan da Cunha, south Atlantic, March.

Tim Laman / Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata) in flight, soaring, Galapagos, Critically endangered

Claudio Contreras / Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) close-up of eyes, Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, January

Claudio Contreras / Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) head portrait of chick, Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, March

Claudio Contreras / Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) head portrait calling mate, Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, March

Claudio Contreras / Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) head portrait calling mate, Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, March

Claudio Contreras / Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) flying, silhouetted against the sky, Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, April

Nick Garbutt / Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) flying over rugged coast near Stromness, South Georgia, South Atlantic. January (digitally altered image)

SIMON KING / Black browed albatross flying over iceberg {Thalassarche melanophrys} South Georgia

Pete Oxford / Close up of Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophrys) on nest with chick, Saunders Island. Off north coast of West Falkland. Falkland Islands

Pete Oxford / Waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata) in flight with storm clouds, Punto Cevallos, Española (Hood) Island, Galapagos islands, Equador, South America

Aflo / Black footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) pair displaying, Midway Islands, USA

Andrew Walmsley / Buller's albatross / mollymawk (Thalassarche bulleri) in flight, Kaikoura, New Zealand, July

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lundgren / Cory's shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) in flight, Pico, Azores, Portugal, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lundgren / Cory's shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) in flight over sea, Pico, Azores, Portugal, June 2009

David Tipling / Black-browed albatross {Thalassarche melanophrys} in flight over the Southern Ocean, nr South Georgia, November

Wild Wonders of Europe / Relanzón / Cory's Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) in flight over sea, Canary Islands, May 2009

Ian McCarthy / Wandering albatross {Diomedea exulans} in a snow flurry, South Georgia

Ian McCarthy / Wandering albatross {Diomedea exulans} flying over open ocean, South Atlantic

Ian McCarthy / Southern royal albatross {Diomedea epomophora} in flight over sea, South Atlantic

Pete Oxford / Measuring bill size of Waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata) Punta Suarez, Española / Hood Island, Galapagos Islands

Pete Oxford / Waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata) pair at nest after change over for incubation, Punta Suarez, Española Island, Galapagos Islands

Pete Oxford / Waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata) portrait, Punta Cevallos, Espaola Island, Galapagos Islands