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Black-Browed AlbatrossEducational resources on Black-Browed AlbatrossBlack-Browed Albatross or Thalassarche melanophrys is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Endangered due to A4bd. IUCN Profile of the Black-Browed Albatross Blackbrowed Albatross — GloBAL Thalassarche melanophrys . Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophrys) is the most populous albatross species with world breeding population estimated at about 530,000 pairs. bycatch.env.duke.edu/species/blackbrowalbatross Classification of birds of South America Part 01 Thalassarche melanophrys Black-browed Albatross 10, 11 Thalassarche chrysostoma Gray-headed Albatross Thalassarche bulleri Buller's Albatross (NB) 12 www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.html (14) Black-Browed Albatross — Antarctica The birds were spectacular as we passed Cape Horn - Black-browed albatrosses were the most common and one of the most beautiful. www.nicholas.duke.edu/antarctica/graphics/Black-Browed%20-%203.JPG/view The Origins of Flight Black Browed Albatross. Photo by Gerald and Buff Corsi; © 2003 California Academy of Sciences. www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/flight/origins.html Antarctic Marine Life Other bird species depend on the Southern Ocean for food too such as the black-browed albatross and the Antarctic petrel. The Southern Ocean food chain begins like most marine www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/polar/antarctic_marine_life.html Wow.UAB.edu : Cargo Holds and Black-Browed Albatross Our ship cut through the twelve-foot waves and fifty-knot winds of the midnight Drake Passage, bucking hard, first to the right and then the left, coupling these sideways motions wow.uab.edu/antarctica2001/show.asp?durki=46758 John Kormendy: South Africa Birds Black-browed albatross during a pelagic trip about 28 miles south of the Cape of Good Hope. Shy albatross . White-chinned petrel (left) and Pintado Petrel (right) chandra.as.utexas.edu/~kormendy/southafricabirds.html Project GloBAL Home — GloBAL Although numerous, the Black-browed Albatross population is currently declining at a rate of ~4% per year, with a projected decline of ~65% over three generations (65 years). bycatch.env.duke.edu New Zealand 2 / Black browed albatross .jpg New Zealand 2/Black browed albatross .jpg Previous | Home | Next www.biology.lsu.edu/labpages/brownlab/nx%20dest/pages/Black%20browed%20albatross%20_jpg.htm Arctic Studies Center ...on the water, but this makes them easy targets for killer whales and stealthy hunters in kayaks; most albatrosses apparently sleep while gliding in the air. Black-Browed Albatross www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/albatross.html
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