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Kōrero: Albatrosses

Grey-headed albatrosses

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Grey-headed albatrosses

Grey-headed albatrosses tend to breed in mixed colonies with Campbell and black-browed albatrosses. They have a grey head and a black bill with orange-yellow ridges on the top and bottom. The eyes have a white crescent at the lower back edge. They weigh about 3.6 kilograms.

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Paul Sagar, Albatrosses – New Zealand’s smaller albatrosses, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/7501/grey-headed-albatrosses (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Paul Sagar, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.