Waved Albatrosses
Waved Albatross chicks are covered with curly dark brown downy feathers. For the first few weeks after hatching, one parent guards the chick while the other forages for food. Whatever food is captured by the parents is held in the stomach, where it is converted to an oily liquid. Upon returning to the colony, the parent finds its offspring and then pumps the liquid into the chick's stomach. As much as 4 pounds of liquid can be forced into the stomach at one feeding. These albatrosses were on Hispaniola.
Waved Albatrosses
Waved Albatross chicks are covered with curly dark brown downy feathers. For the first few weeks after hatching, one parent guards the chick while the other forages for food. Whatever food is captured by the parents is held in the stomach, where it is converted to an oily liquid. Upon returning to the colony, the parent finds its offspring and then pumps the liquid into the chick's stomach. As much as 4 pounds of liquid can be forced into the stomach at one feeding. These albatrosses were on Hispaniola.