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Mahesh

29/07/22 14:11 PM IST

Light-Mantled Albatross

In News 
  • Recently Light-mantled Albatross, a species native to the Antarctic seas, was recorded in Tamil Nadu.
Light- mantled Albatross 
  • Scientific Name: Phoebetria palpebrate
  • About: Also, known as the grey-mantled albatross or the light-mantled sooty albatross.
  • Light-mantled albatrosses spend most of their lives in flight. A juvenile may spend many years at sea before returning to breed.
  • The Light-mantled Albatross, with broad pelagic habits, maintains a circumpolar distribution in the Southern Ocean.
Findings 
  • The location where the Albatross was spotted is part of the Palk Bay and near the Gulf of Mannar, an ‘Important Bird Area’ on India’s southeast coast.
  • This record from the Palk Bay side of Rameswaram island is significant, and it throws up new challenges to researchers once these Antarctic birds migrate to Asia.
  • This finding also directs researchers to look for bird migration away from the well-known and established routes and sites.
  • As the nearest recorded site of the bird is around 5,000 km away from Rameswaram, a change in atmospheric pressure may be among the reasons for the Albatross to land on an Indian shore.
Source- The Hindu 

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