Albatross or Toroa: Otago Penninsula

Albatross or Toroa: Otago Penninsula

Photo by Vandy Pollard

Salvin’s Mollymawk are endemic to New Zealand and one of the world’s largest seabirds. They spend 85% of their lives at sea returning to breed and raise their young. More than a third of the 80 or so species of seabirds that breed in New Zealand are endemic, found nowhere else.

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I’m a photographer living on the South Coast of Wellington New Zealand. with a passion for New Zealand birds, many of them with a conservation status of at risk.