Buller's Albatross
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Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Diomedeidae

[Photo] Buller's Albatross (Thalassarche bulleri), Eden, NSW, Australia. Source: Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/16520061@N08/1941998283/). Date: May 30, 2004. Author: kookr (www.flickr.com/photos/16520061@N08/1941998283/).

The Buller's Albatross (or Buller's Mollymawk), Thalassarche bulleri, is a small mollymawk in the albatross family. It breeds on New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands, and feeds in the seas off Australia and the South Pacific, with a number feeding every year in the Humboldt Current off Chile and Peru. It was named for the New Zealand ornithologist Walter Buller.

The Buller's Albatross is a typical mollymawk, its plumage, reminiscent to that of a gull, with a dark back and upperwing, white undersides. Its head and neck are silver coloured grey with black and white areas around the eye. The bill is black with yellow ridges and tip.

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