Buller's Albatross
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Buller's Albatross or Buller's Mollymawk, Thalassarche bulleri, is a small mollymawk in the albatross family. It breeds on New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands, and feeds in the seas off Australia and the South Pacific, with a number feeding every year in the Humboldt Current off Chile and Peru. It was named for the New Zealand ornithologist Walter Buller.
This is a typical mollymawk, its plumage reminiscent to that of a gull, with a dark back and upperwing, white undersides. Its head and neck are silver coloured grey with black and white areas around the eye. The bill is black with yellow ridges and tip.
It was formerly classified as Vulnerable species by the IUCN[1]. But new research has shown it to be not as rare as it was believed. Consequently, it is downlisted to Near Threatened status in 2008[2].
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- BirdLife International (BLI) (2004). Aepypodius bruijnii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 30 October 2006.
- BirdLife International (BLI) (2008): [2008 IUCN Redlist status changes]. Retrieved 2008-MAY-23.
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