5850 x 4060 px | 49,5 x 34,4 cm | 19,5 x 13,5 inches | 300dpi
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Southern Buller s albatross Buller s albatross Buller s mollymawk Diomedea bulleri bulleri Thalassarche bulleri Adult incubating egg on nest Solander Island New Zealand Order Procellariiformes tubenoses or petrels Family Diomedeidae Southern Buller s albatrosses breed only on Solander and Snares Islands New Zealand An estimated 4000 5000 pairs of Southern Buller s albatross nest on Solander Island This is about half the total of this species the other half breed on the Snares Islands The nest is typically on a pedestal of mud caked grasses and other vegetation Many of these albatrosses nest among forest like tree like shrubs such as Hebe elliptica Olearia lyalii both species in this photo and two species of Brachyglottis The understory here is of two ferns Asplenium obtusatum and Blechnum sp The Solander Islands the main island and Little Solander Island are a Specially Protected Area of the Fiordland National Park 55 vascular plants have been recorded on Solander Island
