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Far from home. A Black-browed Albatross is spotted off Iceland
individual. Birds have been seen ashore in Northern Gannet Morus bassanus colonies in the United Kingdom, most recently at Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire (click here). It has been suggested that the latest Iceland record could be of the Bempton Cliffs bird....
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Threatened albatrosses, World Albatross Day, climate change? Then it’s clearly time for an albicake!
Albatross, as I hope to see one eventually, and a Black-browed Albatross as we have one currently hanging out at the UK's Bempton Cliffs Nature Reserve I'm working on this summer, with all the Northern Gannets and other seabirds. The rising sea levels...
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Another sighting of a Black-browed Albatross in the northern hemisphere
last month’s bird was the same one that was seen farther north on the English coast sitting with Northern Gannets on the Bempton Cliffs in July this year (click here). Read more earlier UK records of Black-browed Albatrosses here John Cooper, ACAP...
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Wrong hemisphere! A Black-browed Albatross turns up among gannets at the United Kingdom's Bempton Cliffs
A Black-browed Albatross among the Northern Gannets at Bempton Cliffs, photograph by Craig Thomas An adult Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris was photographed on 2 July this year among Northern Gannets Morus bassanus at Bempton Cliffs in...