1st BULLER'S ALBY BANDED AUSTRALIA

[SOSSA-Smith&Jenkin-Smith <>]

Seabird's, bet you wish you were on the boat,

We were out on the SANDRA "K" (off Wollongong), Friday 26th September 97, 
banding 
Albatrosses (as this is a part of what we do).  Present were (myself, Lindsay 
Smith), 
Peter Milburn, Captain Carl Loves & Cliff Barry the 3rd from USA.  Much to our 
delight 
we actually caught our first Buller's Albatross, Diomedea bulleri. The bird is 
a 
juvenile and appears to be in it's third year. Many photographs and 
measurements were 
taken. 

Banded: 3 Wandering Albatrosses (Gibson's Albatross)
    
        5 Black-browed Albatrosses all juveniles , 3 of which were Campbell 
Island      
          Albatrosses(D.m. impavida). These had been previosly banded by New 
Zealand    
          researchers. 

        1 Great Skua (Catharacta skua)

Cheers 
Lindsay
           
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SOSSA  "Wildlife Research"
Southern Oceans Seabird Study Association Inc

Lindsay E. Smith & Janice G. Jenkin-Smith
P.O. Box 142, Unanderra NSW Australia 2526

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