Buller’s Albatross ranges over seas around New Zealand and takes fish and squid near the surface.
It has dark upperparts and wings, a white head and underparts, and a yellow upper bill.
At a breeding colony on Solander Island, New Zealand, Buller's Albatross chicks were fed remains of young sooty shearwaters from nearby harvesting sites. Evidence of this food was found at more than one in ten nests examined. Between 17% and 40% of GPS-tagged birds visited the harvesting sites.
Traditional Māori sooty-shearwater harvesting releases offal into the sea, and the harvest overlaps with the early chick-rearing period for albatrosses. The researchers suggest that food from these sites may supplement chick-season feeding and may have contributed to population growth since 1969.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
At Solander Island, remains of young shearwaters were found at more than one in ten nests examined. Seventeen to 40 percent of GPS-tagged albatrosses visited harvesting sites during a period that overlapped with early chick rearing.