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title: "Separating Atlantic and Indian Yellow-nosed Albatrosses at sea"
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# Separating Atlantic and Indian Yellow-nosed Albatrosses at sea

Bob Flood (St. Mary’s, Isles of Scilly) has published an illustrated account in the ornithological magazine [*Birding*](http://www.aba.org/birding/) on identifying ACAP-listed Atlantic Yellow-nosed *Thalassarche chlororhynchos* and Indian Yellow-nosed *T. carteri*Albatrosses.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Posters_Books/Birding_Oct2015.jpg) 

 Full-page colour paintings by John Gales of birds in flight show various stages of both species from fledgling to adult.  Close-ups of birds on the water show diagnostic differences in head and bill between the two species as well as changes in age.

 **Reference:**

 Flood, R.L. 2015.  The 2 yellow-nosed albatrosses molt, age, and identification.  *Birding* 47(3): 31-41.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 31 October 2015*