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	Oceanwings - Albatross Encounters, Kaikoura, New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		These smaller albatross are closely related to the wandering and royal albatross, but are only a third the weight of the larger albatrosses and have fl wings and a fl saddle across the birds' back.
		Black-browed albatross are especially vulnerable to being caught on the baited hooks of longliners.
		Most Chatham Island albatross fly to the east of the Chatham's to off the coast of South America, yet individual birds are sighted off the East Coast of New Zealand.
	www.oceanwings.co.nz /factfile-albatross.htm (614 words)

	Albatross Birds – Biological family of Diomedeidae – EncycloMedia.com
		Albatrosses were believed to be carriers of the mariner’s soul; if a mariner killed an albatross, he would be cursed for the rest of his life.
		Albatross birds are part of the biological family of Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes which means “the tubenoses”.
		The population of Albatross birds is declining It is estimated that 100000 albatrosses die annually when getting caught in longline hooks (fishing lines that are single-stranded) and in gill-nets; these fishing methods are the bird’s greatest threats.
	www.encyclomedia.com /albatross.html (790 words)

	Annotated List of the Seabirds of the World
		Chatham Albatross are also a rare vagrant to SE Australia and at least one has reached South Africa (Ryan 2002).
		During the 1980's two Chatham Albatrosses were regular visitors to Albatross Island in the Bass Strait between Tasmania and mainland Australia (Tickell 2000).
		Ryan, P.G. Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita: new to Africa.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /Chat.Alb.html (457 words)

	Oceans - Stop Pirate Fishing
		Of the 24 species of albatross, 21 are known to be killed on longlines and at least two species are critically endangered.
		Closest to extinction is the Amsterdam albatross, which has been reduced to between five and eight breeding pairs on the French territory of Amsterdam Island.
		Albatrosses feed primarily on squid and fish - the main bait used to catch toothfish - and are attracted to fishing vessels as an easy source of food.
	archive.greenpeace.org /~oceans/piratefishing/albatross.html (653 words)

	Chatham and Shy Albatrosses
		With its chrome-yellow bill, dark grey head and sharp eye the Chatham albatross is one the most beautiful of all the albatrosses.
		Chatham albatrosses breed exclusively on a rock stack south of the Chatham Islands, 600 km east of New Zealand.
		Chatham albatrosses are taken in longline fisheries around New Zealand and off the coasts of Chile and Peru, their preferred winter feeding grounds.
	www.birdsaustralia.com.au /albatross/chatham.html (150 words)

	Albatross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		No other country is home to so many albatross species, and this is why WWF New Zealand is campaigning to protect albatrosses from their biggest threats, long line and trawl fishing in the Southern Ocean.
		But it is known that the Gibson's albatross population is in decline - counts made in 1973 and 1997 on Adams Island indicate a 63% decline over 24 years; and the Salvin's albatross population has decreased by 35% in the past 20 years.
		Albatrosses have the highest number of endangered species of any bird family - of the 24 species of albatross, 21 have declining populations.
	www.wwf.org.nz /mts/albatross.cfm (1221 words)

	Welcome to Forest and Bird
		Albatrosses are natural scavenges and are attracted to the dead squid or fish used as bait.
		New Zealand species that are killed in large numbers include the Campbell albatross, Antipodes and Auckland lslands wandering albatrosses, Southern Buller's albatross and the Grey petrel.
		Six of the world's 20 albatross species are in decline and longline fishing is implicated in each case.
	www.forestandbird.org.nz /Marine/albatross/factsheet.asp (685 words)

	Natural history tours & travel with Heritage Expeditions - Kermadec Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Because the Chatham’s are isolated in distance and geological time from New Zealand mainland, it is not surprising that they have the highest proportion of endemic plants of any region of comparable size in New Zealand, with 40 to 45 species and varieties found nowhere else.
		It is particularly difficult to assess the extent and importance of the Chathams during the second or middle period (1810 to 1835) because records are far and few between, especially for the first half of this second period.
		A European vessel, the Lord Rodney of Sydney, was seized to transport 700 Maori from Wellington to the Chathams.
	www.heritage-expeditions.com /travel/chatham-islands (2065 words)

	Chatham Islands - Chatham Island
		The irregularly-shaped Chatham Island consists of a rolling, hilly tableland in the southern sections of the island that is lined by a series of high sea-cliffs (reaching up to 260 m).
		This area of Chatham Island is dominated by the extensive and convoluted Te Whanga Lagoon.
		In the northwest the landscape is dotted with the eroded remains of volcanic cones.
	www.oceandots.com /pacific/chatham/chatham.htm (316 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - About the Albatross - A959231
		The albatross is being driven to the verge of extinction by fleets of pirate fishing boats, operating in the Southern Ocean, to catch the Patagonian Toothfish.
		Some of the baited hooks are eaten not by their intended targets but by albatrosses, who dive on the floating frozen squid bait before it sinks and are dragged under water to drown.
		The Royal Albatross Colony at Tairoa Head near Dunedin, New Zealand, is believed to be the only albatross breeding colony close to human settlement in the world.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A959231 (768 words)

	Kiwi number 8 wire ingenuity: Press release: WWF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Albatrosses and other seabirds often feed by scavenging for food behind fishing vessels and other boats, waiting for prey to be disturbed or scraps thrown overboard.
		Today 26 species of seabird, including 17 species of albatrosses, are in danger of extinction worldwide as a result of fishing.
		Worldwide, albatross mitigation efforts tended to be targeted at long line fisheries to avoid birds being caught on hooks.
	www.wwf.org.nz /news/2006/06-05-11-mitigation.cfm (539 words)

	Chatham Albatross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chatham Albatross (Thalassarche eremita) is a medium-sized fl-and-white albatross which breeds only on The Pyramid, a large rock stack in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
		It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the Shy Albatross T.
		The islet on which this albatross breeds has undergone a significant decline in habitat condition, the bird is therefore listed on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chatham_Albatross (122 words)

	TerraNature \| New Zealand Environmental Issues - Seabird Protection
		Albatross and petrels are particularly vulnerable to fishing as they dive for freshly baited longline hooks.
		During six-weeks of fishing for ling in the Chatham Rise at the end of 2001, 293 petrels and 11 albatross were killed by longlines set by one Nelson-based fishing boat.
		A total of 26 species of seabirds, including 17 species of albatrosses, are in danger of extinction because of deaths caused by longlining.
	www.terranature.org /seabirds.htm (1080 words)

	Shy Albatross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Shy Albatross, Thalassarche cauta, is a medium sized albatross that breeds off Australia and New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands and ranges extensively across the Southern Ocean.
		Also known as the White-capped Albatross or the Shy Mollymawk, this mollymawk was once considered to be the same species as the Salvin's Albatross and the Chatham Albatross.
		The Shy Albatross is a typical mollymawk with dark plumage on its back, upperwing and tail and a white belly, neck and underwing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shy_Albatross (275 words)

	Albatross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Numbers of albatrosses have declined in the past due to harvesting for feathers, but today the albatrosses are threatened by introduced species such as rats and feral cats that attack eggs, chicks and nesting adults; by pollution; by a serious decline in fish stocks in many regions largely due to overfishing; and by long-line fishing.
		Albatrosses are very long lived; most species survive upwards of 50 years, the oldest recorded being a Northern Royal Albatross that was ringed as an adult and survived for another 51 years, giving it an estimated age of 61.
		It is from the former poem that the usage of albatross as a metaphor is derived; someone with a burden or obstacle is said to have 'an albatross around their neck', the punishment given in the poem to the mariner who killed the albatross.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Albatross (5792 words)

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		Shy Albatross is the largest and stoutest-billed of the "Mollymawks" and exhibits a dark eye patch, a dark grey upperwing, a white underwing with narrow fl edging and a diagnostic squarish fl patch or "thumb-mark" where the leading edge meets the body.
		Grey-headed Albatross is circumpolar in the Southern Oceans and breeds between August and May on Cape Horn, South Georgia, Marion, Prince Edward, Crozets, Macquerie, Kerguelen and Campbell Island.
		The Shy Albatross complex is confined as a breeding species to Australia and New Zealand and has a population of between 50,000 and 60,000 breeding pairs.
	www.birdinghawaii.co.uk /XShyAlbatross2.htm (3393 words)

	Albatoss conservation - introduction
		New research from South Georgia reveals that three species of albatross nesting on the islands have declined at an alarming rate over the past 30 years and unless these declines can be halted or reversed, the islands' albatrosses could face extinction.
		At South Georgia wandering albatrosses are decreasing at 2%/year (a decrease of over 30% since 1986), grey-headed albatrosses at 3%/year (over 31% since 1991) and fl-browed albatrosses at nearly 4%/year (a 44% decrease since 1990).
		The funds are spent on projects designed to reduce the mortality of albatrosses and petrels in fishing operations (see PDF for details).
	www.birdsaustralia.com.au /albatross/intro.html (346 words)

	Seabird Osteology skulls Albatrosses Diomedeidae
		Albatrosses can be divided into four distinct groups: the Great Albatrosses, the Pacific Albatrosses, the smaller Mollymawks and the two Sooty Albatrosses of the genus Phoebetria.
		or Gough Albatross Diomedea dabbenena,,Tristan da Cunha and Gough Is. (formerly exulans)
		Bills of the different forms of Wandering Albatrosses are more slender than those of the Royals and the tubes are slightly compressed laterally and point a little bit upwards.
	www.shearwater.nl /seabird-osteology/albatrosses_diomedeidae.htm (908 words)

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		Since 1983, when Amsterdam Albatross was described, the taxonomic arrangement of the World's Albatrosses has remain unchanged, with recent treatments recognising 14 species in two different genera, the two Sooty Albatrosses phoebetria and all remaining species diomedia.
		In September 1995 the First International Conference on the Biology and Conservation of Albatrosses was held in Hobart, Australia and Nunn and Robertson presented their findings, as well as going beyond, and suggesting a revised species-level taxonomy of the albatrosses within the new four genus arrangement.
		The same studies indicate that the sooty albatrosses are the sister-group of the molly-mawks rather than the sister-group to all remaining albatrosses and that the genus Diomedea, as traditionally defined, is not monophyletic.
	www.birdinghawaii.co.uk /XNewApproachAlbatross2.htm (687 words)

	Save the Albatross
		The biggest colony of fl-browed albatrosses is on the Falklands Islands.
		The Chatham albatross returns from wandering around the Pacific Ocean to breed in just one place — a single rock stack, called the Pyramid, in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
		The third rarest albatross species in the world, with 800 breeding pairs, almost all on Gough Island in the Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the south Atlantic.
	www.savethealbatross.net /species_at_risk.asp (1345 words)

	Wrybill Birding Tours, NZ: Trip reports - Gisborne Pelagic - 27 July 2003
		It was of course the first prion of the day to be seen close to the boat, but luckily within several minutes of seeing this bird, a fairy prion came in close, further emphasising the difference in the bird we had just seen.
		A bit later a dark-headed albatross flew in a straight line passed the boat and continued on its way without stopping.
		Chatham albatross showing very bright yellow bill, with dark tip, suggesting a possible adult bird.
	www.wrybill-tours.com /tripreports/030727.htm (669 words)

	Unidentified Albatross, Midway April 2003
		The paler upper-ridge on the bill and orange flesh at the base of the bill suggest this bird is an adult, consistent with its presence in a colony of Laysan Albatross.
		Presuming this is an adult, the pale crown and forehead argue against Grey-headed and Chatham, both of which have solid gray hoods that are sharply defined from the white breast.
		Salvin's Albatross, Buller's/Pacific Albatross, Chatham Albatross, White-capped Albatross, Shy Albatross.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /MidwayAlbert.html (446 words)

	Howard Government Protects Albatrosses en Masse Media Release 7 December 1997
		Australia has reinforced its position as one of the world's leading nations in Albatross conservation by protecting a total of 17 threatened species of the giant seabirds.
		"Albatrosses are highly migratory, flying thousands of kilometres across the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific oceans but their populations have been declining to the point where fewer than 100 of the Amsterdam Albatross, for example, are thought to remain.
		Earlier this year, the Federal Government successfully nominated 11 Albatross species to the Appendices of the Convention for the Conservation of Migratory Species (Bonn Convention), giving the seabirds international protection.
	www.deh.gov.au /minister/ps/97/mc7dec97.html (364 words)

	Modern mariners threaten albatross with extinction
		Just as the massive and wandering sea bird was presented as a central metaphor of hope and omen of good in the Romantic poet’s most famous work, its needless slaughter by the mariner also progresses to tell a tale of man’s guilt and the destruction of nature.
		Out of 21 species of the bird, 15 are considered endangered, with two, the Amsterdam albatross, with a world population of 90, and the Chatham albatross with between 10,000 and 11,000 birds.
		The albatross is the world’s largest bird in terms of its wingspan, which can measure 11ft.
	www.eurocbc.org /page803.html (482 words)

	Shy Albatross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		This is the first Shy Albatross for California.
		The fl thumbprint at the base of the wing is diagnostic of all birds in the former Diomedea cauta complex, including Shy (Thalassarche cauta/T. steadi), Salvin's (T.
		Cole, L.W. A first Shy Albatross, Thalassarche cauta, in California and a critical re-examination of North Hemisphere records of the former Diomedea cauta complex.
	www.lukecole.com /Birds/SHYAL.htm (127 words)

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		Albatrosses spend most of their life skimming the seas in search of food and usually return to land - mainly remote islands in the Antarctic Ocean - only to breed.
		The albatrosses do not need to drink because they extract all the water they require from their food - the squid and fish that they find on the surface of the sea.
		Albatrosses and other seabirds often feed by scavenging behind fishing vessels and other boats, waiting for scraps to be thrown overboard or prey to be disturbed and rise to the surface.
	www.unep.org /cpi/briefs/Brief27Sept.doc (10768 words)

	Carte Blanche
		In the case of 'great' albatrosses this may be up to 5 years, but they may not start breeding until they up to 10 years old.
		So the albatrosses are fitted with a satellite tracking device which the researchers hope will stay functioning on the bird's back long enough to provide enough data to track its movements.
		Peter: 'There's something about albatrosses; they sort of have this iconic status with regards to the open ocean and they have this kind of freedom of the open ocean and this image of albatrosses sailing endlessly across the sea.
	www.carteblanche.co.za /Display/Display.asp?Id=3134 (2280 words)

	A Birder's Checklist of Birds of the Pacific
		Phylogeography of Shy and White-capped Albatrosses inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences: implications for population history and taxonomy.
		Albatrosses and petrels in Australia: a review of their conservation and management.
		Medway, D.G. The identity of the Chocolate Albatross Diomedea spadicea of Gmelin, 1789 and of the Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans of Linnaeus, 1758.
	www.rosssilcock.com /pacbiblio.htm (3714 words)

	Natural history travel expeditions from Heritage Expeditions Christchurch New Zealand.
		Erect crested and rockhopper penguins populate the coastline.
		The Chatham Is petrel and Magenta Petrel have been seen on this part of the voyage.
		Morning zodiac cruise at South East for Chatham Is shore plover and oystercatcher, then proceed past Mangere and Little Mangere and into Pitt Strait to main Chatham.
	www.heritage-expeditions.com /travel/birddownund-expd/index.cfm (1395 words)

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