Black-browed albatross (Diomedea melanophrys) and its chick. Breeding pairs mate for life and both birds will help raise a single chick every year in
Black-browed albatross (Diomedea melanophrys) and its chick. Breeding pairs mate for life and both birds will help raise a single chick every year in a cliff top nest, feeding it on regurgitated food. A chick is raised for about four months before it is ready to leave the nest. These albatrosses are extremely territorial, attacking other albatrosses that come too close. They are among the smallest albatrosses, with a wingspan of around 2 metres, soaring on the winds of the southern oceans to feed on krill. This albatross is ringed as part of research into albatrosses. Photographed on Bird Island, South Georgia, southern Atlantic Ocean.
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