Salvin’s Albatross
Photo by Vandy Pollard
Salvin’s Mollymawk Albatross: Day trip organised by BirdsNZ Wellington branch on Sunday - vessel was Seafarer II leaving from Seaview to Cooks Canyon. Albatross are scavengers of the ocean seizing food from the waters surface - they mostly eat krill, squid, small fish, crustaceans and also carrion. There are 22 Albatross species, 15 threatened with extinction. Albatross spend 80% of their lives at sea and drink seawater. They mate for life and can live to over 60 years.
Vandy Pollard - Excio Gallery
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.
