Salvin’s albatross  (Thalassarche salvini)

Range

Breeding occurs on nine islands and islets in the Bounty Islands (99% of total), Western Chain in the Snares Islands, and possibly The Pyramid in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. The species has also bred at least once on Ile des Pingouins (Crozet Islands, French Southern Territories). Non-breeding birds range widely through the south Pacific, with large numbers found along the Peru Current (2). Scarce in the southern Indian Ocean (2), and only a rare visitor to the South Atlantic (4).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Breeds on just a few small barren and rocky islands, and otherwise occupies the open oceans (2) (3).

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