Indian Yellow-Nosed Albatross Skull Replica

Description

Indian Yellow-Nosed Albatross Skull Replica (Thalassarche carteri) Information

Indian yellow-nosed albatross skull replica measures 7.0 x 2.2 x 1.5 inches. Thalassarche carteri skull is museum-quality polyurethane resin cast of original specimen from UC Santa Cruz. 2-part skull (separate cranium and jaw). 1:1. Made in USA.

The Indian yellow-nosed albatross is a member of the albatross family, and is the smallest of the mollymawks.

The Indian yellow-nosed albatross weighs 5.6 lb., is 30 in. long and is 6.6 ft.  across the wings. The adult has a pale grey or white head and nape, with a dark grey mantle, upper wing, and tail.

Its rump and underparts are white, and its under wing is white with a black tip with a narrow black margin at the leading edge.

Indian yellow-nosed albatross bill is black with a yellow upper ridge and a red tip.

The juvenile has a white head and all black bill. It is difficult to distinguish from the closely related grey headed and Atlantic yellow-nosed, the latter with which it was long considered conspecific and is still considered by some a subspecies of.

It can be distinguished from the Atlantic yellow-nosed by its head, the grey plumage of which is lighter on the Indian yellow-nosed albatross.

Like all albatrosses, the Thalassarche carteri is a colonial breeder. It breeds annually in the Sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean, Amsterdam Island, and the adults begin breeding at the age of eight years. A mud nest is built in bare rocky areas or in tussock grass or ferns, and a single egg is laid.

Scientific Classification:

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Aves
• Order: Procellariiformes
• Family: Diomedeidae
• Genus: Thalassarche
• Species: T. carteri
• Binomial name: Thalassarche carteri (Rothschild, 1903)
• Conservation status: Endangered (IUCN 3.1)

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