Photo of the Day
Sooty albatross
Sooty Albatross, South Georgia
This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features
A light-mantled sooty albatross looks down on Gold Harbour in South Georgia, a remote British outpost in the far South Atlantic. Individuals of the species can live past 40, so this nesting bird may have witnessed a change in view. In 1985 a glacier buried this shore; since then the ice has retreated a half mile inland.
See more photographs from the December 2009 feature story "South Georgia."