Description
Body white, wings, back and tail dark, grey brown. Underwing white with dark edge surrounding. Bill stout, top of bill yellow, and upper bill curves down at the tip. Wingspan up to 2 m.
Yellow-nosed Albatrosses can have a wingspan over 1.5 m. Their food sources include fish and squid. They breed on islands in the south Indian Ocean.
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: | chlororhynchos | | Common Name: | Yellow-nosed Albatross |
Relatives in same Genus
Bullers Albatross (T. bulleri)
Shy Albatross (T. cauta)
Grey-headed Albatross (T. chrysostoma)
Black-browed Albatross (T. melanophris)
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