The feet were cut off many of the birds to remove their identification tags. Albatrosses were once hunted for their feathers, which were used to make hats. The Mariner kills the albatross because he associated the lack of wind with it. Hopman considered sending a torpedo boat to try to pull Albatross free, but the threat of Seventeen albatross nests and 17 eggs were also destroyed. The extreme hardships of the travel and the supernatural occurrences let the crew to believe that the spirit of the Albatross killed by the Mariner was following the ship and was the reason why misfortune after misfortune befell their lot.

Five Antipodean albatrosses and one Gibson's albatross were killed when they were caught by a longline fishing vessel in the Bay of Plenty region between December 2, 2018, and January 4, 2019.

The albatross as a superstitious relic is referenced in Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's well-known poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. During the massacre, at least nine members of the SeaWing Royal Family (not including guards) were killed by Albatross, whose animus powers had … In return, the ship scored a single hit on Bayan, with the shell splinters damaging a 7.5 cm (3.0 in) gun and wounding one man. Following his shocking photographs of dead albatross chicks and the diet of plastic that killed them, Chris Jordan’s new film is a call to action to repair our broken relationship with planet Earth This occurred when they killed an albatross. Another threat to albatrosses is introduced species, such as rats or feral cats, which directly attack albatrosses or their chicks and eggs.

About 110,000 Laysan and black-footed albatross chicks were killed by the tsunami and two severe winter storms on January 14th and February 11th. So when I heard about the December 2015 massacre at Ka‘ena Point in which 15 Laysan albatrosses were brutally killed and 17 of their eggs destroyed, I was devastated. Albatross plumes were popular in the early 20th century. >70% of the world’s Laysan Albatrosses nest on Midway Atoll NWR, 99% nest in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Military activity killed many birds on Midway Atoll during World War II. One officer and 26 enlisted men were killed. In 1909 alone, over 300,000 albatrosses were killed on Midway Island and Laysan Island for their plumes. It is considered very unlucky to kill an albatross; in Coleridge's poem, the narrator killed the bird and his fellow sailors eventually force him to wear the dead bird around his neck.

I wasn’t the only one. At first all the men thought the bird was good luck since a good wind blew and they moved swiftly. The crew members had nightmares about the spirit of the Albatross and were sure it bode them ill. An estimated 1,000 Laysan adults were killed, and tens of thousands of chicks, said Refuge official Barry Stieglitz. First, the killing of the innocent bird, and the Mariner’s line that “Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung,” suggests that the Albatross can be read as a symbol of Christ, with the Mariner as the betraying Judas (particularly as the Albatross is killed by a cross -bow). The mariner's shipmates all perish after the appearance of the specter woman and her death-mate in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."