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Oct 18 2011
Taken on a pelagic of the west coast of Namibia but breed on Islands off New Zealand
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Dec 3 2012
Northern Royal Albatross- split a number of years ago. They are occasional visitors to S African waters. This shot was taken at their breeding colony on the Otago peninsular- South island
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Dec 12 2016
Near threatened. in my opinion one of the best looking Albatross
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Apr 6 2021
Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross- a bird of the Indian Ocean. You have a good chance of seeing one on a pelagic out of Durban
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Dec 12 2016
An endangered Albatross- breeds on Sub-antarctic islands but wanders far. We have seen it in Antarctic, New Zealand and Southern African waters
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Dec 6 2016
Just a couple of records in the Cape. We were fortunate to see this bird on the way down to Macquarie as it does not stray far at that time of year from its breeding grounds on Chatham
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Jan 1 1970
One of our most common Albatross. On a good day in winter you can see up to 7 different species of Albatross off Capetown.
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Apr 6 2021
The Albatross is my favourite bird. You can find 15 of the 22 species of Albatross in south African waters although a few have just been recorded as vagrants. We have never had the North Pacific birds- Waved,Black-footed, and Short-tailed but there is one record of Laysan's. We are missing some of the New Zealand birds as well. Gibson's, White-capped, and Antipodean. There is one doubtful record of Amsterdam- the one albatross I still need to see
This shot is of an Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Split by IOC several years ago
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Rockhoppers are currently split between Northern And Southern. Therefore this would be Southern. However there is talk of spliting further to create an Eastern Rockhopper which this bird would then become
Feb 15 2020
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Apr 6 2021
One record in Capetown harbour- possibly ship assisted
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