Indian Yellow-Nosed Albatross Skull

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Indian Yellow-Nosed Albatross Skull measures 7 inches. Indian Yellow-Nosed Albatross Skull is museum quality polyurethane cast. Made in USA. UC Santa Cruz specimen. Thalassarche carteri is the scientific name. Our percise skull can be used as a teaching tool, museum skull exhibit, home decor skull, or office decor skull.

The Indian Yellow-Nosed Albatross or Thalassarche carteri is a member of the albatross family, and is the smallest of the mollymawks. The Indian Yellow-Nosed Albatross weighs 5.6 lbs., is 30 ins. 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 or Thalassarche carteri 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, 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. Thalassarche carteri nesting season begins in August, with laying occurring around September through October. Incubation lasts around 70 days. After hatching the chick takes around 115 days to fledge.

It is considered to be an endangered species by the IUCN, due to dramatic declines in the last seventy years, caused by interactions with longline fisheries and the outbreak of introduced diseases, such as avian cholera and Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae.

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