albatrosses

This title tells about the albatrosses, the Earth's largest flying bird.

" ... captures eight endangered animals in living motion. ... throws a spotlight on the mammals, birds, and insects that are threatened with extinction. An opening essay explores the environmental and economic threats to animal populations and how conservationists are working to slow--and, when they can, reverse--the damage. Profiles of each animal accompany the images ..."--Publisher provided.

"[An] albatross returns to the island of Midway, where she was born, to dance, sing, meet with other albatrosses, and lay her egg, in a book designed to introduce the habits and behaviors of the bird"--OCLC.

The story of Wisdom, a Laysan Albatrosses living on Sand Island, Midway.

An illustrated version of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem.

Eleven hungry cats with a yen for roasted bird follow an albatross home to meet his family and find themselves with too much albatross to handle.

Examines the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of the albatross.

Noah the bunny feels "squished and squashed by the sleepy rabbits" in his burrow, so into the night he goes. An albatross takes him to the frozen North where he plays in the snow and then sleeps, splendidly alone, in an ice cave. But when he wakes up cold, all he wants is to be back in his burrow - will he be able to get home?.

A lost albatross has trouble finding someone who can direct him to the ocean.

Contains photographs and essays which provide information about the albatross, discussing size and population distribution, biology and DNA, food, reproduction breeding sites, courtship behavior migratory routes, conservation threats, and other related topics.