Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels - I thought my nose was yellow until I saw yours! An Indian Yellow-nosed and a Buller's Albatross meet up in Tasmania

I thought my nose was yellow until I saw yours! An Indian Yellow-nosed and a Buller's Albatross meet up in Tasmania

Indian Yellow-nosed Thalassarche carteri and Buller's T. bulleri Albatrosses come from rather different parts of the World. The former breeds at French and South African islands in the southern Indian Ocean, the latter is endemic to New Zealand.

Yet at times both species can be seen together at sea as in the accompanying photographs taken off Tasmania's south-east coast (off Fortescue Bay on the Tasman Peninsula) on an 8 March trip this year with Tasman Island Cruises.

Buller's and Indian Yellow-nosed Albatrosses together off Tasmania. Photographs by Susan Wood

Both species are primarily winter visitors to Australian waters. Buller's Albatrosses are the less commonly observed of the two species, at least off New South Wales (click here).

With thanks to Barry Baker and Mike Double for information and to Luke Finley for forwarding Susan Wood's photographs.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 28 March 2011

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I thought my nose was yellow until I saw yours! An Indian Yellow-nosed and a Buller's Albatross meet up in Tasmania

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I thought my nose was yellow until I saw yours! An Indian Yellow-nosed and a Buller's Albatross meet up in Tasmania

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP Secretariat

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels