The wandering albatross is the largest and most majestic of all seabirds. To ancient mariners, it was a symbol of good luck that seemed to appear miraculously out of nowhere. Where it went at sea and what it did was a mystery - until now.
Acclaimed Australian film-makers David Parer and Elizabeth Parer-Cook spent a year following the albatrosses in the southern Atlantic and at their nesting sites on the remote, windswept Crozet Islands.
David Attenborough narrates their story. See today's choices.
Executive producer Dione Gilmour; Series producer John Sparks Stereo
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