Salvins Albatross Wallpaper
This Salvins Albatross wallpaper captures Thalassarche salvini mid-soar above its nesting colony on Proclamation Island, New Zealand — dozens of birds wheeling in the background while this one fills the foreground, those broad white wings edged in dark brown cutting cleanly through a brooding sky. The Salvin’s Albatross breeds almost exclusively on remote islands south of New Zealand and ranges across the Southern Ocean from South Africa to South America, and the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels classifies it as Vulnerable, with longline fishing and trawlers the primary threats. Photographed from below at the colony like this, the sheer scale of the gathering — and the bird’s command of the air — is impossible to miss.
Salvins Albatross Wallpaper — Masters of the Southern Ocean
One of the ocean’s great wanderers, caught for a moment above its only home on earth. Download this free HD wallpaper and discover more stunning bird photography in our birds collection.
