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title: "A Wandering Albatross goes on display in Scotland"
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# A Wandering Albatross goes on display in Scotland

A mounted Wandering Albatross *Diomedea exulans* from Bird Island, and tracking devices, including geolocator-immersion loggers developed by [British Antarctic Survey](https://www.bas.ac.uk/), set against the backdrop of a large map with tracks of albatrosses from [Bird Island](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1339-acap-breeding-sites-no-16-bird-island-south-atlantic-where-albatrosses-and-petrels-have-been-studied-for-decades?highlight=WyJiaXJkIiwiYmlyZCdzIiwiYmlyZCcsIiwiYmlyZCdzLWV5ZSIsIidiaXJkIiwibm8iLCInbm8iLCJnZW9yZ2lhIiwiZ2VvcmdpYSdzIiwiYmlyZCBubyJd) in the South Atlantic, have been included in a new exhibition at [Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum](http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/kelvingrove/about/Pages/default.aspx), Glasgow, Scotland.  These feature in [a set of displays](http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/news/Pages/Newly-Redisplayed-Life-Gallery-.aspx) that the museum has developed in collaboration with the [Royal Society for Bird Protection, Scotland](https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/whatwedo/scotland/), which are devoted to the research that supports important conservation initiatives, including work to reduce the impacts of fisheries on seabirds.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/Museum_1.jpg)

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/W/Wandering/Museum_2.jpg)

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 Photographs by Stephen Phillips

  With over 1.25 million visitors in 2015, this is one of the most visited museums in the United Kingdom outside of London.

 *Richard Phillips, Convenor, ACAP Population and Conservation Status Working Group, 23 May 2016*