10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2012

This Sunday I will be off the coast of Kaikoura on South Island for the first time since 2008 checking out the amazing albatrosses they have there. While albatrosses are found year-round on the tours out of Kaikoura, the best season for them is winter and not all species are common year round. Kaikoura dawn at my last visit.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The important thing is that I get to see albatrosses and he doesn’t. I mean, granted, he does live near the North Atlantic, the one ocean pretty much bereft of albatrosses (it wasn’t always that way, by the way). The Black-footed Albatross. Like all albatrosses Black-footed Albatrosses pair for life, unseen by Corey.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2012

The plane (and all on board) survived but the albatross was not so lucky. See the whole story here.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

About half of all breeding Wandering Albatross nest on the Prince Edward Islands. There’s also the Grey-headed Albatross , Sooty Albatross , Blue Petrel , Great-winged Petrel , Black-faced Sheathbill , and so many more that rely on this island. Yellow-nosed Albatross. Wandering Albatross. Mouse-free Marion!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2011

Have you ever stayed up late at night pondering how you might introduce your child to the awesomeness that is an albatross without having access to, you know, a real live albatross? That is why I am so psyched that illustrator Bill Bolton has come out with an ebook for kids about an albatross that is afraid to fly.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

In Costa Rica, this past year has seen expected additions like Lesser Black-backed Gull and Crimson-backed Tanager along with somewhat less expected birds like Yellow-nosed Albatross in the Caribbean and an equally mega probable Salvin’s Albatross in the Pacific.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2012

Howell continues his tradition of giving clarity to what most birders find intimidating with Petrels, Albatrosses & Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide , just published by Princeton University Press. My photo above of Galapagos Albatross (also known as Waved Albatross) shows the nostril tubes on the side of the bill.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2012

Photographic guides are opinion splitters, some birders love images others are completely turned off by them, yearning for the art and craft of the traditional field guide. There are good photographic guides and a great many bad ones.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Thanks to it’s marine canyon it’s the place to see Sperm Whales, swim with Dusky Dolphins and New Zealand Fur-seals, and watch albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels. There is no better place on Earth to see albatrosses, and that is a precious thing. White-capped Albatrosses are easy to see.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Anyone that has read my posts before knows I love Kaikoura and the amazing people at Albatross Encounter. It was pretty obvious which of the many boats out there it was, the huge flocks of petrels and albatrosses around the boat made finding it easy. Salvin’s Albatrosses were nice to add to my year list. Not a bad day!

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AUGUST 20, 2022

The first is an albatross spotted and videod off the Pacific Coast. So far, it appears to have been a Salvin’s Albatross , a bird more at home in the Humboldt Current. Whether it was that species or another, it’s definitely new for the Costa Rica list!

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MAY 9, 2017

Black-footed Albatross : The most common albatross off the west coast, virtually all of the world’s Black-footed Albatross also breed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, on the same islands as the Laysan Albatross on Hawaiian Islands NWR and Midway Atoll NWR.

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JUNE 25, 2022

Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata). In Costa Rica, the sole tropical breeding albatross is a rare visitor to pelagic waters of the Pacific. A couple of ways to help the Waved Albatross is by supporting organizations such as the Galapagos Conservation Trust and the American Bird Conservancy.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Kaikoura, in New Zealand’s South Island, is arguably the best place in the world to see albatrosses and petrels. And the endemic Hutton’s Shearwater, which only breeds in Kaikoura, will keep you entertained for those few minutes till the albatrosses hit. More Albatrosses, this time a White-capped Albatross !

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Penguins are shown individually in groups, in dense colonies, within habitat (ice, rainforest, beach), swimming in the ocean, and doing things–nose to nose with an albatross, feeding a child, placing an egg on its foot, sliding down ice. (You can see additional photos at Plantema’s online photo gallery.)

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APRIL 17, 2013

I will never tire of banging Kaikoura’s drum as the best place in the world to see albatrosses, and since albatrosses are the among the best birds in the world it amazes me that none of you have made it out here yet (actually, some of you have, per some of the comments, but Corey hasn’t). At first anyway.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. that’s three birds). This is a book that requires attention.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

Although the islands are a cramped home to 18 species of seabird, the dominant and most charismatic of these are the two species of albatross, the Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses. There was one young Black-footed Albatross that was apparently not planning on going quietly into the dark night, however.

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MAY 23, 2021

They’re lucky: unlike albatrosses and other seabirds, they are not ship followers and so can mostly avoid guy-lines and nets. For the next four years, the bird will not touch land. Manx shearwaters are, in relative terms at least, thriving. They fly too low for wind turbine blades, and dive too shallow for long-line hooks.

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MARCH 25, 2014

They include Black-footed Albatrosses , Laysan Ducks , and roughly 65 percent of the world’s Laysan Albatrosses. Between 2012 and 2013, populations of Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses at Midway reached near-record levels. Photos of the Black-footed, above, and the Laysan, below, both from Duncan.). mainland.

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

Good news !

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APRIL 10, 2013

I have raved on and on about how Kaikoura is the best place in the world to see albatrosses , but the once sleepy seaside town is not actually famous for these magnificent birds. You almost certainly won’t see a Sperm Whale out with the albatross crew, but the trip is still utterly essential as well.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

And the famous Wandering Albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird, nearly 12 feet across in the largest individuals. Four families are often recognized: storm-petrels, albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels , and diving-petrels. Ringer Procellariiformes contains some of the greatest wanderers in the avian world.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The magnificent Northern Royal Albatross. Squabbling Antipodean Albatrosses and Cape Petrels. Buller’s Albatrosses. And as well as the work on land, New Zealand is home to some of the greatest pelagic birding in the world, as you might expect from the world’s petrel biodiversity hot-spot. Australasian Gannets.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2013

The giant petrels are aptly named, massive lumbering fulmarine petrels as large as small albatrosses that terrorise the Southern Ocean. The giant petrels share more than just their size with the albatrosses. Although giant petrels are big, they aren’t as big as an Antipodean Albatross !

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JUNE 12, 2018

These remote islands, some more than 1,000 miles from Honolulu, are home to huge globally-significant colonies of Laysan and Black-footed Albatross, among many others. In 2015, mice suddenly started attacking albatrosses sitting on nests and attacks have been steadily increasing since.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

About six-and-a-half years ago I had the privilege of watching a young Waved Albatross on the Galapagos island of Española learning how to fly. It’s not often that we have the opportunity to glimpse the home life of albatrosses, nor of any seabird species. So, what did I learn from Far From Land ?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Maybe they were lured by the promise of even more seabirds and albatrosses. Seabirds and albatrosses? Heck, the way west coast pelagic trips are developing doesn’t suggest the ABA is in imminent procellarid peril, when literally anybody can nowadays see an albatross.

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MARCH 5, 2022

As of early 2022, no dice yet and amazingly, we have had other, less expected species fly their way onto the Costa Rica list, one of them being a young Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross. This fantastic bird also had the grace to soar into Panamanian and Belizean waters and thus make it onto the respective bird lists of those countries as well.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Buller’s Albatross ( Thalassarche bulleri ) and Cape Petrel ( Daption capense ) at Kaikoura. The focus of today is one of the guys above, but since I have already done a story on Buller’s Albatrosses before it is going to be about the other guy. This post is not about albatrosses!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

A fairly recent trip turned up Manx Shearwater and fishing boats got pictures of the young Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross that had also been seen in Belizean and Panamanian waters. Even so, deep waters occur and they have seen very little ornithological exploration. What else is out there? Expeditions to Remote Parts of Protected Areas.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Black-footed Albatrosses One of Hawaii’s three species of albatross, this one isn’t likely to mistaken for much else. An adult Black-footed Albatross loafing in the evening and failing to fly to California. Laysan Albarosses Last but by no means least are the Laysan Albatrosses. To be an albatross is to move!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2016

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was an easy one to choose as it was his first albatross, a Black-footed Albatross off the coast of California. Luckily, a Semipalmated Sandpiper dropped by to relieve the tedium, close enough that I could admire its partially webbed toes. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2016

One thing that did worry me was a lack of albatrosses, I only had one distant flyby, too far away to identify. Without an albatross how could I torment Corey? A White-capped Albatross! But, eventually, one came by and stayed with us, following the ship or some time. A big bird in a bigger sea. Take that Corey!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast opens with the unexpected appearance of a Laysan Albatross. We are all suckers for an albatross, at least in the United States. The author, conservation biologist Caroline Fox, is observing the albatross’s shadow to the side of the boat. Do I need to say anything more?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

The mammoth like thing behind is an albatross chick. I ts easy to overheat, so the shade of a convenient Black-footed Albatross chick is sought-after. After breeding they can spend months at sea without landing before returning to land. A Sooty Tern chick in the gawky phase. A Great Frigatebird snatching a chick.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It was productive throughout (the official summary is here ) and the highlights were a Cook’s Petrel , several Black-footed Albatrosses and Least Storm-Petrels , as well as higher numbers of Red-necked Phalaropes , Pomarine and Long-tailed Jaegers , Craveri’s Murrelets , Sabine’s Gulls , Townsend’s Storm-Petrels , and Brown Boobies.

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