Española Island

It is about time, most of the six thousand waved albatross that were nesting on Española Island have gone already. This small island in the Pacific is the only place in the whole world where they nest.

Everybody was asking: where have they gone? Well, that is the question that you can see written in the face of our picture’s protagonist. Albatross go into the wide ocean, sometimes for years in a row, north and south, as far as a few thousand miles.

In the mean time, our explorers met the last ones of the season. We just managed to witness the very last courting dance of the year that these beautiful marine birds repeat one last time before flying away. Being monogamous, the recently formed couples close the bonds of their relationship that way, until next year’s reunion. Albatross chicks will stay on the island just a couple of weeks more. They soon will realize that adults are not around anymore. Then the young birds will also take the path of the infinite ocean and disappear for some years… so long albatross.