Hi Jeff, Thanks for your comment. Steve Howell’s paper (Neotropical Birding 4: 19-25) has pictures of birds that he claims to be juv. Chatham Albatross. The paper is freely available – just google it. Cheers, Nikolas
G’day Nikolas, Raja’s photos of the juv Salvin’s from Wollongong june last year, on this side of the Tasman, is the most useful set you should be looking at in that link. EG., note how dark the bill is, darker than an adult as you would expect. The Sydney bird in question from this year … Read more
Hi all, On Saturday Illawarra Birders presented a half-day Bird ID Workshop in a joint venture with the 3 local councils’ biodiversity programme (The Illawarra Biodiversity and Local Food Strategy For Climate Change). Council advertised the event in the local press and provided the perfect venue, the Discovery Centre at the Wollongong Botanic Gardens. The … Read more
Hi all, Sorry for this late correction. There was some discussion about one of the Shy-type albatross during Hal Epstein’s Sydney pelagic (13th August – not sure if the report of this excellent trip was sent out). There were a total of at least three juv. Shy-type Albatross during the trip. Initially, I called one … Read more
Dan asked about the frequency of Chatham Albatross T. c. eremita in Australian waters. HANZAB vol.1 (1990) described them as ‘occasional’ off SE Australia. Back in the 1960/70’s Peter Lansley, Geoff Price & I saw an adult from Cape Schanck, a headland in central Victoria and I photographed a sub-adult from a fishing boat off … Read more