Bloody hell, I thought I'd answered you yesterday. For some reason it didn't take.
Of course I had to research. According to this, albatrosses can have a wingspan of up to eleven feet and weigh as much as twenty-two pounds. As a comparison, from here, the Giant Canada Goose, the largest wild goose in the world, has a wingspan of up to six feet and also can weigh as much as twenty-two pounds. (Domestic geese can be heavier, which is hardly surprising since they're bred to be.)
The first link has some neat info about albatrosses in the event you're interested.
Just for the hell of it -- when I was at UCSD and spent a lot of time walking on the nearby beach, I found a mummified fulmar that had washed up. It was also a "tubenose" and was pretty neat to see. (I took the head -- all dried up, so not too gross -- and cleaned up the skull, which I kept for several years before giving the collection to the educational department at Helen Woodward Animal Center.)
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Of course I had to research. According to this, albatrosses can have a wingspan of up to eleven feet and weigh as much as twenty-two pounds. As a comparison, from here, the Giant Canada Goose, the largest wild goose in the world, has a wingspan of up to six feet and also can weigh as much as twenty-two pounds. (Domestic geese can be heavier, which is hardly surprising since they're bred to be.)
The first link has some neat info about albatrosses in the event you're interested.
Just for the hell of it -- when I was at UCSD and spent a lot of time walking on the nearby beach, I found a mummified fulmar that had washed up. It was also a "tubenose" and was pretty neat to see. (I took the head -- all dried up, so not too gross -- and cleaned up the skull, which I kept for several years before giving the collection to the educational department at Helen Woodward Animal Center.)
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