What is Albatross?
{{Taxobox | name = Albatross | image = Short tailed Albatross1.jpg | image_width = 300px | image_caption = Short-tailed Albatross (''Phoebastria albatrus'') | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Bird|Aves]] | subclassis = [[Neornithes]] | infraclassis = Neoaves | ordo = [[Procellariiformes]] | familia = '''Diomedeidae''' | familia_authority = George Robert Gray 1840<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.taxonomy.nl/Main/Classification/51470.htm | title=Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification - Family Diomedeidae - | access-date=2009-02-17 | last=Brands | first=Sheila | date=2008-08-14 | work=Project: The Taxonomicon | archive-date=2009-06-16 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616173813/http://www.taxonomy.nl/Main/Classification/51470.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> | | range_map = Albatrosses distribution map.png | range_map_width = 300px | range_map_caption = Global range (In blue) }} '''Albatrosses''' are large [[seabird]]s which belong to the [[family (biology)|biological family]] '''Diomedeidae'''. They live in the region of the [[Southern Ocean]] and the North [[Pacific Ocean]]. They are not found in the [[Atlantic Ocean|North Atlantic region]], but their [[fossil]]s have been found there, which shows that they used to live there. There are four main species of albatross: Great Albatrosses, North Pacific Albatrosses, Mollymawks and Sooty Albatrosses. These are divided into twenty-one species [[wikt:identify|identified]] by the [[World Conservation Union]] (ICUN). Great Albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds. They are very big. All albatrosses are very good at flying, spending much of their life in the air. They eat [[squid]], [[fish]] and [[krill]]. Albatrosses come ashore to make their [[Bird nest|nests]], mostly on islands, and usually near the nests of other birds. Nineteen of the twenty-one species of albatross are [[Endangered species|endangered]]. This is partly because animals such as [[rat]]s and [[cat]]s attack their eggs, chicks, and sometimes [[ad