The explanation is that Albatross is half IceWing and that’s why so many of you think he is albino for his strange coloring that he doesn’t look anything like the others, and Anmeone too gets mixed up like this but really she too has more of the IceWing inherited scales color trait. This is also how the SeaWings have the Animus gene. This is how Turtle enchanted Anemone and how the whole world changed by one queen having dragonets with a IceWing. So Turtle and Albatross have to be related for the lineage not to change and still have the Animus gene. So that means either Clearpool took over or one of Pearl's spineless daughters and I’m sorry but I picture Pearl's daughters as spineless... sorry about the thought train. But yes Albatross is in fact half IceWing.