Photography: Seabird

These black-browed albatross chicks have a long way to go before they can lift their wings and become the supreme flyers sailors have admired for centuries. They’re plump from the fish and squid oil they get fed and they’re all sitting on mud nests built by their parents which turn into thrones over time. After the young birds fledge, they roam the open ocean for several years without coming back to land, but most of the survivors return to the island where they are born to seek mates. And then the cycle of life continues for the lucky ones.