---
title: "Moult of young Black-browed Albatrosses based on at-sea photographs"
---

# Moult of young Black-browed Albatrosses based on at-sea photographs

Robert Flood ( St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, UK) has published in the [2104 issue of *Seabird*](http://www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/?page=seabird_27), the annual journal of the [Seabird Group](http://www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/), on moult patterns of immature Black-browed Albatross  *Thalassarche melanophris* based on “hundreds” of photographs of  birds taken at sea.

 ![Black-browed Albatross Denmark John Larsen](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Black_browed/Black-browed%20Albatross%20Denmark%20John%20Larsen.jpg) 

 Black-browed Albatross at sea, photograph by John Larsen

 **Reference:**

 Flood, R.K. 2014.  Black-browed Albatross *Thalassarche melanophris* primary moult timing in the fourth prebasic moult.  [*Seabird* 27: 98-103](http://www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/journals/seabird_27/SEABIRD_27_BB_Albatross.pdf).

 NOTE: the paper has no abstract and a complete PDF will be available online in May 2015.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 05 February 2015*