Neither here nor there, but I love birds:
Aren't albatrosses effectively doing wave soaring: positioning themselves in the updraft part of the standing waves that are created when a constant wind blows over an irregular surface? With the irregular surface being the ocean? Constant speed wind striking the face of an ocean wave is very much like constant speed wind striking a mountain ridge: enormous updraft starting from the windward face and extending up and to leeward -- monster downsmashing rotor immediately to leeward of the wave crest / mountain peak. Albatross knows enough to stay in the updraft.