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Tender love – a Black-browed Albatross gently preens its fluffy white chick

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The Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) breeds together with Southern Rockhopper Penguins (Eudyptes chrysocome) on West Point Island in the Falklands. This footage was shot in late December 2018, when both the albatrosses and penguins had chicks. The rookery was very noisy, in particular from the harsh, braying calls of the Rockhopper Penguins. Black-browed Albatrosses are the most common of the large albatrosses, but their populations are declining like those of most other albatross species. Their natural lifespan is long – up to 70 years – but Black-browed Albatrosses only lay one egg per year, and both sexes share the duties of incubation and rearing their single chick in their chimney-like mud nest. This mixed breeding colony of Black-browed Albatrosses and Southern Rockhopper Penguins is situated on a rock scree amongst Tussac grass that provides some cover from the incessant summer wind on the Falkland Islands.

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