albatrosses are big. They weigh about 8-9 kilos (roughly up to 20 lbs). But more impressive, as always for birds, they are big for their weight. So imagine something roughly the size of a slender turkey, with a nine foot span of narrow, glider-like wings. In fact, imagine a 3 meter model plane with a chicken stapled to it... which would look really odd, come to think of it.
Their heads are somewhat stern, like the bald eagle on Muppets only white and more streamlined. Long, sharply hooked beak, with back-pointing bits inside to help them snag slippery squid-like things that are their preferred food. The guide pointed out in the video feed, that when the young eat parents' regurgitated food, they do so with beaks pointed crossways, much as a well-mannered gentleman would keep a sword or gun pointed away from his colleague while they compared grips.

We saw two of them on the wing, and a larger number of very fluffy chicks -- as big or bigger than the adults (they don't need to fly yet, they need to keep warm), and catching the light like little clouds as they sat, looking more-or-less disgruntled, on the windy outcrop which is the only known mainland breeding colony of the Royal Albatross. It's very well protected, so that it will remaon a viable breeding colony. Windy is a necessary feature, because albatrosses are mostly wind-borne flyers; they prefer to spread their highly efficient wings and be lifted, rather than exerting any noticeable effort.

Onbce fledged, we are told, the chicks will leave the colony (most of them on their first try, though a few of them reportedly get fished out of the surf by concerned naturalists and returned to shore for another attempt), and not return to it, or any other land, for 4-5 years. They circle Antarctica, riding what I think were called the circumpolar currents of air, and eating squid and fish and fishermans' scraps to hteir hearts' content.
Then they return, select a mate-for-life at big noisy parties (sounds a bit like a haunted house, creaks and screeches and groans) and start bre3eding. Oldest known breeded was about 62, but most live to be 30-40.