Birds of Peru

    PROCELLARIIFORMES: Diomedeidae (Albatrosses)  
Genus: Thalassarche (6 species, 9 worldwide)


Buller's Albatross
Buller's Albatross (Thalassarche bulleri) Near Threatened
Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia  
   
Photograph by Ed Dunens     Copyright and usage info


Shy Albatross
Shy Albatross (Thalassarche cauta cauta) Near Threatened
Tasmania, Australia  
   
Photograph by JJ Harrison     Copyright and usage info


Grey-headed Albatross
Grey-headed Albatross (Thalassarche chrysostoma) Endangered
Drake's Passage, Antarctica
  Photo credit: NOAA: Lt. Elizabeth Crapo
   
Photograph by U.S. Government employee (see below)     Copyright and usage info


Chatham Albatross
Chatham Albatross (Thalassarche eremita) Vulnerable
 
   
Photograph by Pablo Caceres Contreras     Copyright and usage info

Breeds on Chatham Island new Australia, and ranges from there to Peru and Chile. Comes closer to shore than other albatross (HBW).

Black-browed Albatross
Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris)
South Africa  
   
Photograph by Graham Searll   © All Rights Reserved.

Black-browed Albatross
Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) Immature
South Africa  
   
Photograph by Graham Searll   © All Rights Reserved.


Salvin's Albatross
Salvin's Albatross (Thalassarche salvini) Vulnerable
East of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia
  Note grey head.
   
Photograph by JJ Harrison     Copyright and usage info

Formerly a subspecies of the Shy Albatross, Salvin's Albatross can be differentiated by the greyer head.


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