Yellow-nosed albatross

Yellow-nosed albatross
	Yellow-nosed albatross ( Thalassarche chlororhynchos )
Systematics
Class :	Birds (aves)
Order :	Tubular noses (Procellariiformes)
Family :	Albatrosses (Diomedeidae)
Genre :	Thalassarche
Type :	Yellow-nosed albatross
Scientific name
	Thalassarche chlororhynchos
	( JF Gmelin , 1789)

Young bird

The Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross ( Thalassarche chlororhynchos ) is a bird art from the family of albatrosses (Diomedeidae). It is believed that the yellow-nosed albatross is responsible for the seed dispersal of Phylica arborea between Amsterdam Island and Gough Island , which are 7200 km apart. It is also called the Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross .

Appearance

With a body length of 76 centimeters and a body weight of 2.5 kilograms, the yellow-nosed albatross is the smallest albatross that lives in the southern seas.

Yellow-nosed albatrosses have black and white body plumage. The black beak has a yellow rim and a yellow tip. The birds mainly live on cuttlefish and fish . They show no sexual dimorphism and both parent birds are involved in the care of their chick, which flies after about four months.

Spread and endangerment

Like most albatross species, the yellow-nosed albatross occurs in the Southern Ocean . Although there are still 58,000 specimens of the yellow-nosed albatross, the species is listed as critically endangered on the Red List of Threatened Species (cf. Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans , 26,000 specimens).

supporting documents

literature

Hadoram Shirihai: A Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife - The Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and Southern Ocean , Alula Press, Degerby 2002, ISBN 951-98947-0-5
James McQuilken: The Mists of Time. Spitzbergen.de-Verlag, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Yellow-nosed Albatross ( Thalassarche chlororhynchos ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Thalassarche chlororhynchos in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed on December 30 of 2008.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b James McQuilken: The Mists of Time . Ed .: Rolf Stange. 1st edition. Spitzbergen.de, 2012, ISBN 978-3-937903-15-6 , pp. 137 .

[:0-1] James McQuilken: The Mists of Time . Ed .: Rolf Stange. 1st edition. Spitzbergen.de, 2012, ISBN 978-3-937903-15-6 , pp. 137 .