#1158 · 🐦 birds
Black-browed Albatross
🇳🇱 Wenkbrauwalbatros ·Thalassarche melanophris
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © aeb95f · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © steve b · CC0
- 3. © Adrien Mauss · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Miguel A Mejias, PhD. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © steve b · CC0
- 6. © Mauricio Silvera · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © davy_c · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Chris G Earley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Roy Mackenzie · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The black-browed albatross ( Thalassarche melanophris ), also known as the black-browed mollymawk , is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae; it is the most widespread and common member of its family.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 5,544 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1828 (198 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Black-browed Albatross
- Nederlands
- Wenkbrauwalbatros
- scientific name
- Thalassarche melanophris
- class
- Aves
- order
- Procellariiformes
- family
- Diomedeidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 68
- sightings worldwide
- 5,544
- GBIF records in NL
- 27
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1828 by Coenraad Jacob Temminck
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Diomedeidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 144433, Wikidata Q602598, GBIF 2481410, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.