| NOUN | a black-browed albatross | black-browed albatrosses / black-browed albatross | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Carol Thatcher flies to the Falkland Islands to find out why the black-browed albatross and its relatives are under threat.
- The black-browed albatross feeds on fish, squid, crustaceans, carrion, and fishery discards.
- ... A paper reviewing population data for the black-browed albatross between 1947 and 2000/01 suggested that the breeding population had increased to about three times that present in the late 1940s, although a Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources CCAMLR) Working Group was cautious about the interpretation of the increasing trend given the disparate nature of the data, as discussed in the paper.
- Steeple Jason is home to the largest colony of black-browed albatrosses in the world. Over 70% of the global population of black-browed albatross breed in the Falkland Islands.
- There are some 5,000 breeding pairs of gannets on Sula Sgeir, which they share with other bird species such as black-legged kittiwakes, common guillemots, puffins, northern fulmars and in the summers of 2005 to 2007 a Black-browed Albatross was resident in the gannet colony.
- The genus "Thalassarche" was introduced in 1853 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach with the black-browed albatross as the type species.
- Hermaness was also home to a black-browed albatross – an extreme rarity in the Northern Hemisphere – every summer from 1972 until 1995 (except 1988 and 1989).
- Rarities have included Black-browed Albatross, Feas Petrel and many other rare seabirds have been recorded here.
- The name derives from the black-browed albatross or "mollymawk" ("Diomedea melanophris") which breeds on the hill in large numbers.
- In the 19th century, the islands were occasionally visited by black-browed albatross; one bird regularly summering with gannets for 34 years before it was killed for the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen.
- Why the albatrosses became extinct in the North Atlantic is unknown for certain, although rising sea levels due to an interglacial warming period are thought to have submerged the site of a short-tailed albatross colony that has been excavated in Bermuda.
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