Albatross Print - Limited Edition of 1

With the largest wingspan of any bird, Albatrosses travel huge distances using advanced soaring techniques: dynamic soaring and slope soaring. Dynamic soaring takes advantage of different layers of wind speed. The bird will fly down with the slower, lower layer, gaining speed, then turn up an use the stronger headwind to gain altitude, almost slowing to a stall, then down again. Slope soaring is when they use the updraft coming off the peak of a wave. These techniques make voyages of thousands of miles possible will minimal effort. Interestingly, dynamic soaring has recently in the last ten years become a niche sport within the hobby of radio-controlled soaring, so I guess we learned it from the Albatrosses, but who taught them? With all this crazy flying the Albatross may seem invincible, but they are currently threatened by human activities including longline fishing and plastic ingestion.