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The white-capped albatross (Thalassarche cauta steadi) is a mollymawk that breeds on the islands off of New Zealand. Not all experts agree that this form should be recognized as a separate species from the shy albatross, Thalassarche cauta. It is a medium-sized black, slate gray, and white albatross and is the largest of the mollymawks.
This mollymawk was once considered to be the same species as the Salvin's albatross, Thalassarche salvini, and the Chatham albatross, Thalassarche eremita, but they were split around 2004. In 1998, Robertson and Nunn suggested a four-way split including the white-capped albatross, Thalassarche steadi. [3]
Salvin's albatross, white-capped albatross, shy albatross and Chatham albatross were all considered the same species until a 1998 article by Robertson and Nunn. [5] Other experts followed suit, with BirdLife International in 2000, [6] Brooke in 2004, [7] ACAP in 2006, [8] and SACC in 2008.
The remains of this Laysan albatross chick show the plastic ingested before death, including a bottle cap and lighter. Ingestion of plastic flotsam is another problem, one faced by many seabirds. The amount of plastic in the seas has increased dramatically since the first record in the 1960s, coming from waste discarded by ships, offshore ...
Wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans. Order: Procellariiformes Family: Diomedeidae. The albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds, and the great albatrosses from the genus Diomedea have the largest wingspans of any extant birds. Gray-headed albatross, Thalassarche chrysostoma; White-capped albatross, Thalassarche cauta (A)
Wisdom, the legendary Laysan albatross or mōlī, stands at center over her recently laid egg with other seabirds around the ground nest on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Nov. 27, 2024.
It is home to a large colony of white-capped albatrosses: about 65,000 pairs – nearly the entire world's population – nest there. [1] Also on the island is the Auckland rail, endemic to the archipelago; once thought to be extinct, it was rediscovered in 1966. [2]
The Galapagos albatross is one of those species where. ... such as the complicated dance routine of the little red-capped manakin or the flashy display of the male peacock. In other species, the ...