ANCHORAGE — Fishermen harvesting Pacific cod in the Bering Sea saw a rare sight over the past month: two short-tailed albatrosses, spotted on different days in different places. The bad news ...

The Short-Tailed Albatross of the Senkaku Islands. It was 1988, and I was a newspaper reporter on a small airplane flying over the Senkaku Islands.

The news of Short-tailed albatross raising a Black-footed chick presents similar questions. Both albatross species forage in similar places and favor similar foods, so much of the adopted bird’s ...

The short-tailed albatross wasn’t hard to spot among the other birds searching for food, she said. Its wingspan stretched about 7 feet, the bright pink bill about the length of her hand.

The short-tailed albatross is a striking bird, with a bright pink bill, a white body and a golden-colored crown and nape. Although the bird once thrived in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, ...

The oldest known bird in the wild, a Laysan albatross on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, is believed to be at least 74. The short-tailed albatross has a wingspan of more than 2 meters and ...

The short-tailed albatross, an unlikely visitor, made an unexpected migration to the central coast region this fall. Traveling all the way across the Pacific from remote offshore islands in Japan ...

Short-tails are one of the Northern Hemisphere’s three albatross species, historically nesting on islands around Japan. These birds are so large they make the other two look petite.

Hasegawa has repeatedly asserted that his goal is to get the short-tailed albatross population up to 5,000 birds. At the current pace, this should be achieved in 2019, and the key is the ...

The short-tailed albatross wasn’t hard to spot among the other birds searching for food, she said. Its wingspan stretched about 7 feet, the bright pink bill about the length of her hand.

A rare albatross that breeds on islands off Japan and hasn’t been documented near local waters for more than 40 years was spotted just a few miles from shore over the weekend, thrilling bird ...