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SHY ALBATROSS FACTS |
Description
Body white, top of wings dark brown. Head grey to white. Bill stout, tip yellow and upper bill curves down at the tip. Body up to 1.4 m long.
Shy Albatrosses are the only albatross to breed in Australia and only in a few locations. They breed from September to April. Their wingspan can reach over 2 m.
Author credit: Museum Victoria Sciences Staff / Museum Victoria
Habitat
Coastlines, large bays and open seas.
Food
Carnivore
Range
Southern mainland Australia and Tasmania.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Procellariiformes | | Family: | Diomedeidae | | Genus: | Thalassarche | | Species: | cauta | | Common Name: | Shy Albatross |
Relatives in same Genus
Bullers Albatross (T. bulleri)
Yellow-nosed Albatross (T. chlororhynchos)
Grey-headed Albatross (T. chrysostoma)
Black-browed Albatross (T. melanophris)
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