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Friday, May 29, 2020

TAAF: Yellow-nosed Albatrosses

Last Friday I got a postcard from the TAAF.

It shows a group of Yellow-nosed Albatrosses. Unfortunately I am not sure whether these are Atlantic or Indian Yellow-nosed Albatrosses. On the backside Diomedea chlororhynchos is written. Wikipedia however calls the Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche carteri and the Atlantic one Thalassarche chlororhynchos. On the side it is also written that these two species were just split in 2004 by BirdLife International, while some authorities still consider them to be conspecific. The card was apparently already printed in 2006 and as the Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross lives on some islands of the TAAF and the Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross only on some British overseas islands, I would go with Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross. 


The card was sent from a philatelic event in Paris via Port-aux-Français, the main settlement of the Kerguelen Islands, and travelled for really a long time. It was sent last year in May. The stamp shows the Research Ship "La Curieuse" (issued 07-06-2019) and even got a First Day Special Postmark.


Thank You very much William!

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