BirdUp · Species
Salvin's Albatross
Thalassarche salvini(Rothschild, 1893)
VulnerableNative
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Diomedeidae
- Genus
- Thalassarche
- Conservation
- Vulnerable
- Commonness
- Rare
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
Salvin's albatross or Salvin's mollymawk, is a large seabird that breeds mainly on the Bounty Islands of New Zealand, with scant amounts on islands across the Southern Ocean. A medium-sized mollymawk, it was long considered to be a subspecies of the shy albatross.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- IO, PO : Bounty (most of population; east of Stewart I.), west Snares (south of South I.; New Zealand) and Crozet is. (few; South Indian Ocean)
- Non-breeding range
- To temperate and subtropical waters off south-east Australia, west coast of South America, and south Africa
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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