Flying at no mechanical energy cost: disclosing the secret of wandering albatrosses. by Gottfried Sachs, Johannes Traugott, Anna P Nesterova, Giacomo Dell'Omo, Franz Kümmeth, Wolfgang Heidrich, Alexei L Vyssotski, Francesco Bonadonna

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Observations and models of across-wind flight speed of the wandering albatross by Philip L. Richardson, Ewan D. Wakefield

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Demographic Responses to Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in the Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans). by David Costantini, Aurelie Goutte, Christophe Barbraud, Bruno Faivre, Gabriele Sorci, Henri Weimerskirch, Karine Delord, Olivier Chastel

“…We have assessed whether a marker of plasma oxidative stress (TBARS) and plasma haptoglobin (protein of the acute inflammatory phase response) measured at time t predict five demographic parameters (survival rate, return rate to the breeding colony, breeding probability, hatching and fledging success) in sexually mature wandering albatrosses over the next four years (Diomedea exulans) using a five-year individual-based dataset. …”
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Progressive ontogenetic niche shift over the prolonged immaturity period of wandering albatrosses by Alice Carravieri, Henri Weimerskirch, Paco Bustamante, Yves Cherel

“…By using blood and feather trophic tracers (δ13C and δ15N, and mercury, Hg), we studied age-related changes in feeding ecology during the immature phase of wandering albatrosses Diomedea exulans when they gradually change from a pure oceanic life to visits to their future breeding grounds. …”
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Evidence for sex-segregated ocean distributions of first-winter wandering albatrosses at Crozet islands. by Susanne Åkesson, Henri Weimerskirch

“…The highly mobile wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) are adapted to navigate the extreme environment of the Southern Ocean and return to isolated islands to breed. …”
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Age-related variation in foraging behaviour in the wandering albatross at South Georgia: no evidence for senescence. by Hannah Froy, Sue Lewis, Paulo Catry, Charles M Bishop, Isaac P Forster, Akira Fukuda, Hiroyoshi Higuchi, Ben Phalan, Jose C Xavier, Daniel H Nussey, Richard A Phillips

“…We examine age-related variation in the foraging behaviour of a long-lived, wide-ranging oceanic seabird, the wandering albatross Diomedea exulans. Using miniaturised tracking technologies, we compared foraging trip characteristics of birds breeding at Bird Island, South Georgia. …”
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Impact and control of feral cats preying on wandering albatrosses: Insights from a field experiment by Pierrick Blanchard, Karine Delord, Aymeric Bodin, Kevin Guille, Tobie Getti, Christophe Barbraud

“…We examined this new predator–prey system by individually monitoring known‐age wandering albatross chicks with camera traps in a colony experimentally divided into zones with and without cat control. …”
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Wandering albatrosses exert high take-off effort only when both wind and waves are gentle by Leo Uesaka, Yusuke Goto, Masaru Naruoka, Henri Weimerskirch, Katsufumi Sato, Kentaro Q Sakamoto

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Developing UAV Monitoring of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands’ Iconic Land-Based Marine Predators by John Dickens, Philip R. Hollyman, Tom Hart, Gemma V. Clucas, Eugene J. Murphy, Sally Poncet, Philip N. Trathan, Martin A. Collins

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Environmental assessment of proposed areas for offshore wind farms off southern Brazil based on ecological niche modeling and a species richness index for albatrosses and petrels by Carolina Alves Lemos, Mauricio Hernández, Cristiano Vilardo, Richard A. Phillips, Leandro Bugoni, Isabel Sousa-Pinto

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Using Deep Learning to Count Albatrosses from Space: Assessing Results in Light of Ground Truth Uncertainty by Ellen Bowler, Peter T. Fretwell, Geoffrey French, Michal Mackiewicz

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Protein Deimination and Extracellular Vesicle Profiles in Antarctic Seabirds by Richard A. Phillips, Igor Kraev, Sigrun Lange

Subjects: “…antarctic seabirds (wandering albatross (<i>diomedea exulans</i>), grey-headed albatross (<i>thalassarche chrysostoma</i>), black-browed albatross (<i>thalassarche melanophris</i>), northern giant petrel (<i>macronectes halli</i>), southern giant petrel (<i>macronectes giganteus</i>), white-chinned petrel (<i>procellaria aequinoctialis</i>), brown skua (<i>stercorarius antarcticus</i>), south polar skua (<i>stercorarius maccormicki</i>))…”
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Causes and consequences of pair-bond disruption in socially monogamous species by Sun, Ruijiao

“…Widowhood rates are male-biased due to lower survival rates of females in wandering albatrosses. In both wandering albatross and snow petrel, remaining single after a pair-bond disruption results in a reduction in individual lifetime reproductive success due to missed breeding seasons. …”
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Fisheries bycatch as an inadvertent human-induced evolutionary mechanism. by Christophe Barbraud, Geoffrey N Tuck, Robin Thomson, Karine Delord, Henri Weimerskirch

“…Here, we tested for the evidence and consequences of individual heterogeneity on the demography of the wandering albatross, a seabird heavily affected by fisheries bycatch. …”
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Distribution of the Antarctic Sea-birds in the Outer Margin of the Summer Pack Ice Area by Yasuhiko NAITO, Keiji NASU, Hiroshi SUZUKI

“…The species which rarely appeared, such as light-mantled sooty albatross, Antarctic petrel, sooty albatross, wandering albatross and Antarctic skua, are not krill-feeders. …”
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The influence of parental relatedness on reproductive success. by Amos, W, Wilmer, J, Fullard, K, Burg, T, Croxall, J, Bloch, D, Coulson, T

“…Examination of three long-lived vertebrates, the long-finned pilot whale, the grey seal and the wandering albatross reveals significant negative relationships between parental similarity and genetic estimates of reproductive success. …”

Imaging the Climate Crisis. The Ceramic Art of Horie, Galloway, Snider, and Rhymer-Zwierciadlowska by Mary Ann STEGGLES

“…Galloway was so shocked at the decapitation of the Wandering Albatross and its near extinction that she set about to create classical funerary urns to draw attention to the endangered species of New England. …”
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The effects of spatially heterogeneous prey distributions on detection patterns in foraging seabirds. by Octavio Miramontes, Denis Boyer, Frederic Bartumeus

“…However, Poissonian detection statistics is not observed in long-range seabirds such as the wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) due to the fractal nature of the prey field, covering a wide range of spatial scales. …”
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Scaling of soaring seabirds and implications for flight abilities of giant pterosaurs. by Katsufumi Sato, Kentaro Q Sakamoto, Yutaka Watanuki, Akinori Takahashi, Nobuhiro Katsumata, Charles-André Bost, Henri Weimerskirch

“…The largest extant soarer, the wandering albatross, weighs about 12 kg, which might be a pragmatic limit to maintain a safety margin for sustainable flight and to survive in a variable environment.…”
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When celibacy matters: incorporating non-breeders improves demographic parameter estimates. by Deborah Pardo, Henri Weimerskirch, Christophe Barbraud

“…We study the long-lived quasi-biennial breeding wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans). In this species, the breeding cycle lasts almost a year and birds that succeed a given year tend to skip the next breeding occasion while birds that fail tend to breed again the following year. …”
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