Another one in the series of head-on portraits of albatrosses. This is a very wacky looking immature Campbell's [Black-browed] Albatross, Thalassarche [melanophris] impavida. Certainly having a bad hair day!
I just received a book called Albatrosses, by Lance Tickell. It is an excellent book, by far and away the most thorough review of albatrosses. I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in albatrosses.
EDITOR: IOC puts the Campbell Albatross as a separate species from the Black-browed Albatross, although some authorities consider it a subspecies.
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
