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title: "Far from home: an Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross visits Gough Island"
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# Far from home: an Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross visits Gough Island

 ![IYNA.2 Gough Chris Jones](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/I/Indian_Yellow_nosed/IYNA.2-Gough-Chris-Jones.jpg)

 *Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross on Gough Island, photograph by Chris Jones*

 Peter Ryan ([FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology](http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/), University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa) and colleagues have published open access in the annual journal [*Seabird*](http://www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/) on three new seabirds recorded from the Tristan da Cunha- Gough Islands in the South Atlantic: Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross *Thalassarche carteri*, Fairy Prion *Pachyptila turtur* and a gannet *Morus* sp..

 The [Endangered](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/22728372) albatross, which breeds only on islands in the southern Indian Ocean, was seen on Gough Island on 17 January 2019 (click [here](https://acap.aq/latest-news/3219-an-indian-yellow-nosed-albatross-visits-gough-island-in-the-south-atlantic?highlight=WyJnb3VnaCIsImdvdWdoJ3MiLCInZ291Z2gnIiwiJ2dvdWdoIiwiaW5kaWFuIiwiam9uZXMiLCJqb25lcyciXQ==) for an earlier report).  Three other sightings are now reported at sea within the 200-nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone around the Tristan da Cunha Archipelago.

 Previously, two sightings of vagrant Salvin’s Albatrosses *T. salvini*have been made on Gough Island ([click here](https://acap.aq/news/latest-news/2020-second-record-of-a-salvin-s-albatross-on-gough-island?highlight=WyJzYWx2aW4ncyIsInNhbHZpbiIsImdvdWdoIiwiZ291Z2gncyIsIidnb3VnaCciLCInZ291Z2giXQ==)).

 **References:**

 Ryan, P.G., Dilley, B.J., Risi, M.M., Jones, C.W., Osborne, A., Schofield, A., Repetto, J. & Ratcliffe, N. 2019.  Three new seabird species recorded at Tristan da Cunha archipelago.[Seabird 32: 122-125](http://www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-32).

 Visser, P., Louw, H., Cuthbert, R. & Ryan, P. 2009. Salvin’s Albatross *Thalassarche salvini* on Gough Island, South Atlantic. [*Bulletin of the African Bird Club*16: 215–216](https://www.africanbirdclub.org/bulletins/abc-bulletin-162-september-2009/salvins-albatross-thalassarche-salvini-gough-island-south).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 02 December 2020*