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Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.

I am your host, Nate Swick.

I came across a pretty fascinating new study the other week involving albatrosses,

which are pretty fascinating species just generally.

So obviously my interest was piqued.

And the report looked to solve one of the enduring seabird mysteries, and that is how these species,

which spend almost their entire life on the apparently featureless open ocean, find food.

How do they anticipate conditions that are associated with good weather for flying

and food opportunities for for foraging? For relatively short distances, we know that they use

smell and sight, seabirds in particular tube noses. They have a pretty incredible sense of smell.

But these birds typically range over many thousands of hectares of open water where most of the time,

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