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EMU
Volume 103, Issue 1, Pages 59-65Publisher
C S I R O PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1071/MU01011
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The flights of two non-breeding Wandering Albatrosses, Diomedea exulans exulans, were followed across the Indian Ocean from Australia. Most flight paths tacked across winds, with the forward flight being maintained within an arc of 110-170degrees from the direction of following winds. Westward flights, between 30 degreesS and 50 degreesS, repeatedly used the SW winds behind cold fronts associated with Antarctic LOWs. These winds enabled the birds to fly to the north-west and, when this brought the birds ahead of an easterly moving HIGH, the E-NE winds blowing to the north of the HIGH were used to continue the westerly movement.
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