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  Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos)





Yellow-nosed Albatross | Thalassarche chlororhynchos photo
Yellow-nosed Albatross

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Yellow-nosed Albatross | Thalassarche chlororhynchos photo
Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross

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BIRD FACTS

Description
Body white, wings, back and tail dark, grey brown. Underwing white with dark edge surrounding. Bill stout, top of bill yellow, and upper bill curves down at the tip. Wingspan up to 2 m.

Yellow-nosed Albatrosses can have a wingspan over 1.5 m. Their food sources include fish and squid. They breed on islands in the south Indian Ocean.

Author credit: Museum Victoria Sciences Staff / Museum Victoria

Habitat
Coastlines, large bays and open seas.

Food
Carnivore

Range
Southern mainland Australia and Tasmania.

distribution map showing range of Thalassarche chlororhynchos in Australia

Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.


Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.




Classification
Class:Aves
Order:Procellariiformes
Family:Diomedeidae
Genus:Thalassarche
Species:chlororhynchos
Common Name:Yellow-nosed Albatross

Relatives in same Genus
  Bullers Albatross (T. bulleri)
  Shy Albatross (T. cauta)
  Grey-headed Albatross (T. chrysostoma)
  Black-browed Albatross (T. melanophris)