SOUTH AMERICAN
Temperate Ocean


Class Aves

Family Diomedeidae: Albatrosses

(off Tristan da Cunha)

Thalassarche chlororhynchos, 'Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross'.

albatross-black-browed-cape-horn-(off Cape Horn)

Thalassarche melanophris, 'Black-browed Mollymawk'. Found all around Southern Ocean and up along temperate coasts of southern continents. Breeds southern South America and New Zealand.

Sooty Albatross (image by Damon Ramsey)Sooty Albatross (Tristan da Cunha)

Phoebetria fusca, '(Dark-mantled) Sooty Albatross'. Breeds on remote islands in the South Atlantic and southern Indian Ocean. 

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