These birds are a few days late for Valentine"s Day, but they look like they"re in the mood for love. Wandering albatrosses (also known as snowy albatrosses, white-winged albatrosses, or goonies) live mostly on the open ocean but come on land for mating season. A salt gland located above their nasal passages allows them to desalinate and survive drinking only salt water as they feed on small marine animals. They can float on the sea surface and glide for hours.
Flocking together in the Antarctic
Today in History
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Memorial Day
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Assembling the Smithsonian
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Autumn comes to the Porcupines
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Hitsujiyama Park, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
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From garden to table?
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Red fox
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Trevi in bloom
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Noctilucent clouds
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Boxing Day—a shopper’s delight
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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park turns 103
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World Environment Day
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National Mountain Climbing Day
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Here comes summer
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Independence Day of the Bahamas
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Great Fountain Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
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Summer huts in winter
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National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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