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Chatham albatross

Thalassarche eremita Murphy, 1930

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The chatham albatross (Thalassarche eremita) is a species in the family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes. Recorded adults weigh 3.5 kg to 4.31 kg and live up to 28.5 years. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Vulnerable.

Chatham albatross (Thalassarche eremita)
Photo: Craig Nash · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the chatham albatross

Weight
3.5 kg – 4.31 kgsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
28.5 yearssrc for Lifespan
Diet
Aquatic predatorsrc for Diet
Longest recorded lifespan
40 years
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Egg incubation
69 dayssrc for Egg incubation
Young per litter or clutch
1src for Young per litter or clutch
Age at maturity
6 yearssrc for Age at maturity
Litters or clutches a year
0.5src for Litters or clutches a year
Lifestyle
Generalistsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Migratorysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the chatham albatross live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The chatham albatross is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

What is the chatham albatross?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The Chatham albatross (Thalassarche eremita), also known as the Chatham mollymawk or Chatham Island mollymawk, is a medium-sized black-and-white albatross which breeds only on The Pyramid, a large rock stack in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the shy albatross (Thalassarche cauta). It is the smallest of the shy albatross group.

From the Wikipedia article “Chatham albatross” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chatham_albatross&oldid=1360552870), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the chatham albatross endangered?

The chatham albatross is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Vulnerable species. What the categories mean.

How is the chatham albatross classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderProcellariiformes
  5. familyDiomedeidae
  6. genusThalassarche
  7. SpeciesThalassarche eremita Murphy, 1930

Synonyms Diomedea cauta eremita, Diomedea eremita, Thalassarche cauta eremita, Thalassarche salvini eremita

Other names and names in other languages (38)
  • Chatham island albatrossEnglish
  • Chatham island mollymawkEnglish
  • Chatham mollymawkEnglish
  • قطرس تشاتامArabic
  • Чатъмски албатросBulgarian
  • Albatroz ChathamBreton
  • Albatros de les ChathamCatalan
  • albatros de les illes ChathamCatalan
  • albatros chathamskýCzech
  • ChathamalbatrosGerman
  • Chatham-AlbatrosGerman
  • ĉatama albatrosoEsperanto
  • Ĉathama albatrosoEsperanto
  • albatros de ChathamSpanish
  • Albatros de las ChathamSpanish
  • chathami pagualbatrossEstonian
  • آلباتروس چتهامPersian
  • Albatros des ChathamFrench
  • אלבטרוס צ'טהאםHebrew
  • čatamski albatrosCroatian
  • Chatham-albatroszHungarian
  • Albatros chathamIndonesian
  • Albatro delle ChathamItalian
  • Albatros delle ChathamItalian
  • チャタムアホウドリJapanese
  • Чатем альбатросWestern Mari
  • Tónteel tsídiitsoh łibáhígííNavajo
  • albatros siwogłowyPolish
  • albatroz-das-chathamPortuguese
  • Чатемский альбатросRussian
  • albatros popolavýSlovak
  • Albatros sa ostrva ČatamSerbian
  • Keşiş AlbatrosuTurkish
  • Чатемський альбатросUkrainian
  • альбатрос чатамськийUkrainian
  • 查岛信天翁Chinese
  • 查坦島信天翁Chinese
  • 查塔姆島信天翁Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistTAXREFWikidataWoRMSIUCN Red List

Relatives of the chatham albatross

Other species in the same genus Thalassarche.

CompareChatham albatross vs Black-browed albatrossChatham albatross vs Shy albatrossChatham albatross vs Grey-headed albatrossChatham albatross vs Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the chatham albatross?

An adult chatham albatross weighs 3.5 kg – 4.31 kg, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the chatham albatross live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the chatham albatross for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the chatham albatross endangered?

The chatham albatross is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, meaning it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.

How long does the chatham albatross live?

The chatham albatross has a recorded lifespan of 28.5 years.

What kind of animal is the chatham albatross?

The chatham albatross (Thalassarche eremita) belongs to the family Diomedeidae in the order Procellariiformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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BibTeX
@misc{chatham_albatross_2026,
  title = {Chatham albatross (Thalassarche eremita)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/chatham-albatross},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}