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Chatham Albatross
Thalassarche eremita Murphy, 1930
Diomedeidae — Albatrosses
Chatham Albatross, Thalassarche eremita, is a member of the albatross family in the order Procellariiformes and breeds in the Pacific Ocean at Pyramid Rock in the Chatham Islands, east of New Zealand’s South Island. It was first described by Murphy in 1930. Outside the breeding season it ranges to the Humboldt and Magellanic currents off southern Peru and Chile. It is the smallest of the shy albatross group, and is sometimes treated as part of that species complex.
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Diomedeidae — Albatrosses
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean: Pyramid Rock (Chatham Is., e of South I., New Zealand)
- Nonbreeding range
- to Humboldt and Magellanic currents off s Peru and Chile
