Falkland Islands - South America and Antarctic Port of Call

By Linda Garrison, About.com Guide

Mixed in with the rockhopper penguins and their chicks were black browed albatrosses and their young. Many of these albatross, with their distinctive black eye brows and bright yellow-orange bills, had followed our cruise ship the Hanseatic from Ushuaia, Argentina, to the Falkland Islands. The black browed albatross make their nests, which look like a small pot or cone, from mud and grass. They are usually found on steep, rocky slopes. We were fascintated to see these two species--the rockhopper penguin and the black browed albatross--living together A single black browed albatross egg is incubated for 68 days, and the chicks fledge at 120 days. The black browed albatross is the most abundant of all the albatrosses, with over 600,000 pairs found world-wide.