Black-browed Albatross

Thalassarche melanophris (Temminck, 1828)

Black-browed Albatross, Thalassarche melanophris, breeds on islands in the Southern Ocean, including southern Chile, the Falklands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Crozet, Heard, Kerguelen, Macquarie, the Antipodes, the Snares and Campbell groups. Outside the breeding season it ranges across all southern oceans, from waters north of the Antarctic Convergence to the Tropic of Capricorn. It is an albatross in the family Diomedeidae and was first described by Temminck in 1828. Its dark eyebrow and the black edge to the underside of the wings help set it apart.

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Diomedeidae — Albatrosses

Breeding range

Southern Ocean: islands of s Chile, Falkland, South Georgia and South Sandwich (se of South Georgia), Crozet, Heard, Kerguelen (sw to se Indian Ocean), Macquarie (far se of Australia), Antipodes, Snares and Campbell groups (se, s of South I.; New Zealand)

Nonbreeding range

widespread all southern oceans from n of Antarctic Convergence to Tropic of Capricorn