At the far end of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands lies Kuaihelani – also known as Midway Atoll – a small set of islands ...

One albatross population that has unashamedly been propped up is the colony of endangered northern royal albatrosses at Taiaroa Head, near the city of Dunedin, on New Zealand's South Island.

And yet Midway feels not just wild but primal, hosting three million birds, the world’s largest albatross colony, sea turtles, spinner dolphins, and rare ducks. Obama entered a shallow sea ...

and finally to the moment at which an albatross chick fledges the nest and takes to the skies for the first time to go out to sea, not to return to its natal colony for years to come. Bird Island ...

With onboard human observers or electronic devices tracking activity, albatross by catch rates have fallen dramatically on monitored vessels. But what about illegal fishing boats? Military vessels ...

Here, the incredible Antipodean wandering albatross which have been foraging ... year they see the same male albatrosses arrive at the colony to wait by their nest for a partner who sadly won ...

The short-tailed albatross has a wingspan of more than 2 ... In fact, the species was considered extinct until 1951 when a colony of around 10 birds was rediscovered on Torishima.