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title: "Far from home.  A Black-browed Albatross is spotted off Iceland"
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# Far from home.  A Black-browed Albatross is spotted off Iceland

*![Iceland Black browed Albatross Husavik 10 June 2024](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Black_browed/Iceland_Black-browed_Albatross_Husavik_10_June_2024.jpg)  
The recent Iceland sighting of a Black-browed Albatross, photograph by [Tom Collier](https://www.facebook.com/groups/86878741545/user/685218160)*

 An adult [Black-browed Albatross](https://acap.aq/datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/22698375) *Thalassarche melanophris* was photographed at sea off Húsavík, northern Iceland on 09 June 2024 from a whale-watching vessel.  According to comments posted to Facebook there have been at least three previous records of Black-browed Albatrosses sighted off Iceland.

 Single Black-browed Albatrosses have been recorded in the Northern Hemisphere on [numerous occasions](https://acap.aq/news/news-archive/2010-news-archive/crossing-the-line-albatrosses-changing-hemispheres?highlight=WyJibGFjay1icm93ZWQiLCJibGFjay1icm93IiwiYmxhY2stYnJvd3MiLCJub3J0aGVybiIsIm5vcnRoZXJucyIsImhlbWlzcGhlcmUiLCJoZW1pc3BoZXJlcyIsImhlbWlzcGhlcmUncyJd), as has been reported in *ACAP Latest News* from time to time.  It seems likely that more than one at-sea sighting is of the same individual.  Birds have been seen ashore in [Northern Gannet](https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/northern-gannet-morus-bassanus) *Morus  bassanus* colonies in the United Kingdom, most recently at Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire ([click here](https://acap.aq/search?q=Bempton&Search=&w1=before&d1=&w2=before&d2=)).  It has been suggested that the latest Iceland record could be of the Bempton Cliffs bird.

 *25 June 2024*