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The Evangelistas Islets, Chile: a new breeding site for black-browed albatrosses

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A previously undescribed population of black-browed albatrosses (Thalassarche melanophrys) is reported at the Evangelistas Islets, Straits of Magellan, Chile. The population was censused from aerial photographs taken on 13 October 2002 that yielded an estimate of the number of breeding pairs. A combined total of 4,670 pairs of black-browed albatrosses were found nesting at Elcano and Lobos Islets, 2 of the 4 islets in the Evangelistas group. This new record raises to four the number of breeding islands of this albatross species in Chile.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Sergeant Luis Muñoz of the Chilean Navy lighthouse detachment for providing us in December 2001 with video-taped evidence of seabirds breeding on Elcano Islet. Comments by Barry Baker and Ed Melvin improved a draft of the manuscript.

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  1. Instituto de Ecología y Evolución, Casilla 567, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

    Javier Arata

  2. Australian Antarctic Division, Channel Highway, Kingston, Tasmania 7050, Australia

    Graham Robertson & Kieran Lawton

  3. Instituto Antártico Chileno, Luis Thayer Ojeda 814, Providencia, Santiago, Chile

    Jose Valencia

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Arata, J., Robertson, G., Valencia, J. et al. The Evangelistas Islets, Chile: a new breeding site for black-browed albatrosses. Polar Biol 26, 687–690 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-003-0536-6

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