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title: "An Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross visits the United Kingdom"
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# An Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross visits the United Kingdom

A 2007 vagrant record of an Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross *Thalassarche chlororhynchos* has now been added to the official British List, as published in the July 2010 issue of [*British Bird*s](http://www.britishbirds.co.uk/).  The bird, a juvenile from a photograph, turned up in a Somerset garden on 30 June 2007, with two subsequent sightings made ([click here](http://www.britishbirds.co.uk/currentissue.htm)).

 Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses have been regularly reported as vagrants in the northern hemisphere from both sides of the Atlantic, most recently in Canada ([click here](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/from-the-south-atlantic-to-canadas-interior-an-atlantic-yellow-nosed-albatross-turns-up-on-lake-ontario) to access the latest update on plans to give the Canadian bird a lift back to the southern hemisphere).

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/A/Atlantic_Yellow_nosed_Albatross2_by_Peter_Ryan.jpg "Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross.  Photograph by Peter Ryan")

 See also [http://www.acap.aq/latest-news/crossing-the-line-albatrosses-changing-hemispheres](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/crossing-the-line-albatrosses-changing-hemispheres) for a summary of across-the-equator records for this species, endemic to the UK Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 14 August 2010*