I'm not sure if that's a viable dismissal, quoting from the paper they looked at travel which was at least 20 km and I'm not sure if albatrosses can reasonably

I'm not sure if that's a viable dismissal, quoting from the paper they looked at travel which was at least 20 km and I'm not sure if albatrosses can reasonably make out visible features of waves at that distance. > We analyzed the directional preference of wandering albatrosses in relation to available microbarom sound pressure as well as wind speed and direction. This analysis depended on identifying ‘decision points’, points at which the bird decides upon a direction to head in. After splitting GPS tracks into bouts of either directed flight, searching, or resting behavior, we isolated bouts of directed flight exceeding 20 km and extracted the first GPS fix in each bout as the ‘decision point’ (Fig. 1A).