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title: "One-way trip: a banded Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross gets recovered on a Brazilian beach"
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# One-way trip: a banded Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross gets recovered on a Brazilian beach

A colour-banded Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross *Thalassarche chlororhynchos *was found dead on a beach near Cachoeira do Bom Jesus, [Florian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian%C3%B3polis)[ó](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian%C3%B3polis)[polis Island](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian%C3%B3polis), Brazil on 21 September 2014.

 ![](http://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/A/Atlantic_Yellow_nosed/Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross corpse B91.jpg)

 ![](http://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/A/Atlantic_Yellow_nosed/Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross recovery B91.jpg)

  ![](http://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/A/Atlantic_Yellow_nosed/Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross recovery.jpg) 

 The beached albatross and its colour band, photographs by Fernando Farias

 According to a [report](http://safring.adu.org.za/ring_info.php?ring=879025) recently received from SAFRING the bird was banded as an adult with plastic colour band Red B91 and South African Bird Ringing Unit ([SAFRING](http://safring.adu.org.za/)) metal band 8-79025 near Hottentot Gulch on [Tristan da Cunha](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1421-acap-breeding-sites-no-34-the-main-island-of-tristan-da-cunha-inhabited-by-both-albatrosses-and-islanders) in the mid-South Atlantic on 11 October 2009.  The distance between banding and recovery localities is 3538 km, with an elapsed time of four years and 11 months (1806 days).

 Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses regularly occur in Brazilian waters ([click here](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/2004-moult-of-atlantic-yellow-nosed-albatrosses-spectacled-petrels-and-great-shearwaters-caught-at-sea)).

 With thanks to Dane Paijmans, [SAFRING](http://safring.adu.org.za/), South Africa and Fernando Farias and Patricia Pereira Serafini, [CEMAVE](http://www.icmbio.gov.br/cemave/), Brazil for information and photographs.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 20 January 2015*