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title: "An Atlantic Yellow Nosed Albatross from Gough Island is found dead in Brazil after swallowing the sole of a shoe less than a month after fledging"
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# An Atlantic Yellow Nosed Albatross from Gough Island is found dead in Brazil after swallowing the sole of a shoe less than a month after fledging

A juvenile [globally Endangered](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/atlantic-yellow-nosed-albatross-thalassarche-chlororhynchos) Atlantic Yellow Nosed Albatross *Thallassarche chlororhynchos* was found dead on 21 April this year by Alan Marques Ribeiro on Geribá Beach, Armação dos Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during a routine survey as part of a beach monitoring project.  An autopsy was performed by veterinarian Paula Baldassin, upon which a shoe sole was recovered from the bird’s stomach. The sole had resulted in severe ulcers and perforation of the tissue wall, likely causing the bird’s death.

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 Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross No. 8-88207

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 Stomach containing part of a shoe

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 Shoe sole exposed

 The dead bird carried SAFRING ([South African Bird Ringing Unit](http://safring.adu.org.za)) band No. 8-88207, placed on it as a chick in a monitoring colony on [Gough Island](https://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1322-acap-breeding-sites-no-11-gough-island-south-atlantic-hanging-on-against-the-onslaught-of-its-killer-mice?lang=en) in the South Atlantic on 15 March. The chick was reported to have fledged between 26 and 31 March 2018, less than a month before its recovery a calculated 3577 km away.

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 SAFRING report

 Read SAFRING reports on the recovery [here](http://safring.adu.org.za/ring_info.php?ring=888207) and [here](https://www.facebook.com/groups/SAFRING/permalink/2060144130680456/).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 07 May 2018*