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title: "Amsterdam to Terrigal.  A banded Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross gets photographed in Australian waters"
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# Amsterdam to Terrigal.  A banded Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross gets photographed in Australian waters

*![Terrigal IYNA](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/I/Indian_Yellow_nosed/Terrigal_IYNA.jpg)  
The banded**Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross off Terrigal**, photograph by Carey Devey*

 An [Endangered](https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/indian-yellow-nosed-albatross-thalassarche-carteri) Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross *Thalassarche carteri* with leg band W23 was photographed in “shelf waters” from a [Terrigal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrigal) pelagic tour operating off the central coast of New South Wales, Australia on 19 July.

 Based on information from the Australian Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme ([ABBBS](https://www.dcceew.gov.au/science-research/bird-bat-banding)), the albatross was banded as an adult in December 2011 in the Entrecasteaux study colony on France’s Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean.  It was visually sexed as a female and has been regularly observed at the colony during the breeding season since 2011.

 Albatross studies on Amsterdam Island are undertaken in the framework of the project “[Seabirds and Marine Mammals as Sentinels of Global Change in the Southern Ocean](https://institut-polaire.fr/en/programmes_soutenus/seabirds-and-marine-mammals-as-sentinels-of-global-changes-in-the-southern-ocean/)” (Project: 109 ORNITHO2E), supported by the French Polar Institute Paul Emile Victor (IPEV).

 Information from the [Seabirds and Pelagics Australia](https://www.facebook.com/groups/957199944320635/) Facebook group. With thanks to Karine Delord.

 *John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, 26 July 2024, updated 01 August 2024*