David Matos Mendes

Albatross and inca tern - Parque de Las Leyendas

Do you by any chance know if the albatross and the booby in this exhibit are non-releasable rescues or something along those lines?
 
@Great Argus It's weird for me seeing a juvenile bird - off New Zealand coasts we really only see adults with brightly-coloured bills because the juveniles head directly east across the Pacific to South America after fledging. The all-dark bill just looks wrong. I wondered at first if this might be a Grey-headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma but it's most likely a Salvin's Albatross T. salvini - apparently the most commonly seen mollymawk on pelagics off Peru.
 
@KevinB
I would guess so... Parque de las Leyendas keeps a lot of rescued animals, and if I'm not completely wrong, there was a sign in this particular enclosure talking about the origin of these animals.
@Chlidonias
The institution lists this species as Phoebastria irrorata, but they don't really look like such. Agree with your guesses.
 
Recently the Photo ark has had these animals listed as Salvin’s albatross (Thalassarche salvini).
 

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