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Buller’s albatrosses swimming

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Buller’s albatrosses swimming

Buller’s albatrosses (also called Buller’s mollymawks) have a grey head with a pale forehead, and are dark above the eyes with a white crescent below. From above, their wings and back are dark grey, and they have broad yellow ridges on the top and underside of the bill. Their average weight is 3 kilograms. The southern subspecies breeds on the Solander Islands (west of Stewart Island) and further south, on the Snares.

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Paul Sagar, Albatrosses – New Zealand’s smaller albatrosses, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/7503/bullers-albatrosses-swimming (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Sagar, published 2 March 2009.