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Buller's Albatross
Thalassarche bulleri (Rothschild, 1893)
Diomedeidae — Albatrosses
Buller's Albatross, Thalassarche bulleri, is an albatross of the family Diomedeidae and order Procellariiformes that breeds in New Zealand. Its breeding sites are scattered across islets in the north-west of North Island, the Chatham Islands east of South Island, and islands west of Stewart Island and the Snares south of South Island. Outside the breeding season it ranges into eastern Australian waters and along the west coast of South America. It is a small mollymawk, and its plumage includes a grey head, a dark back and upperwings, white underparts, and a black bill with yellow on the upper mandible and tip.
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Diomedeidae — Albatrosses
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean: islets of nw North I. (rare), Chatham Is. (e of South I.), w of Stewart I. and Snares (s of South I.; New Zealand)
- Nonbreeding range
- to e Australian waters and w coast of South America
