Shy Albatross

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occurs in Tasmania and Auckland Islands, Crozet, Snares, Bounty and Chatham (Carboneras, 1992 b) and breeds only on three islands south of Australia: Albatross, Pedra Branca and Mewstone (ACAP, 2009). They also occur in the western South Atlantic, where they are bycatch in pelagic longline fishing in Brazil and Uruguay (Gianuca et al., 2011). It occurs regularly in Brazilian waters, on the continental slope region along RS and SC, since juveniles were recorded in open sea between May and September from 2005 to 2011, one adult in August 2011 (Gianuca et al., 2011) and one photographic record in October for RS (WikiAves, 2016). There is also one record in PR, although the month is not mentioned (Scherer-Neto et al., 2011). Besides these, two other Brazilian specimens remain to be identified (Dénes et al., 2007): one from RS collected in April (Petry et al., 1991) and another from Bahia (BA) in September (Lima et al., 2004 a). In this paper we follow CBRO (Piacentini et al., 2015). However, recent data reveals that there is no confirmed record of Thalassarche cauta in the Southwestern Atlantic, but of Thalassarche steadi instead, suggesting review of these seabirds identification as necessary (Gianuca et al., 2011; Seco-Pon & Tamini, 2013; Jiménez et al., 2015).