In this bite-sized documentary, Simon Morton interviews Te Papa bird curator Sandy Bartle about the albatross (aka toroa). Clutching one of the 2000-odd albatross specimens held at the museum, Dr Bartle shares an anecdote about taking albatrosses on the bus in a backpack and a sack after the storm that caused the Wahine ferry disaster in 1968. Ninety-six albatrosses were brought to Wellington's Dominion Museum that day, many thrown against cliffs by the storm's 200 kilometre per hour winds. The documentary also touches on how the birds are stored and maintained at Te Papa.