Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe BOSTON, May 21 (UPI) -- A bird that could be the only albatross living in the North Atlantic has been freed on Cape Cod after recuperating from malnutrition. "It's flying like a good healthy albatross should fly!" said Paul Sievert, a conservation biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, who had affixed a 1.6-ounce satellite transmitter on the albatross so its flight can be tracked, the Boston Globe reported. Advertisement Sievert and a team from the Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine released the yellow-nosed albatross Sunday in Falmouth, Mass., "This bird's a mystery on wings," Sievert told the Globe. "No one knows how it got to North America. Did it lose its sense of direction and fly here on its own? Or was it swept across the equator by some strange storm?" The albatross typically is found in the far South Pacific. Shelley and Ryan Coite of Cape Neddick, Maine, found the albatross dazed and starving in a pasture behind their home April 28. "It looked like an oversized seagull. It walked like a clumsy duck," Shelley Coite told the Globe. "My husband said, 'That's an albatross!'" Ryan Coite said he recognized the bird from a documentary he'd recently seen had recently seen on the Discovery Channel. Advertisement "Albatrosses were on my mind," he said.
