Thalassarche melanophrys

Posted 13 June 2011 by

Photograph by Marilyn Miller.
Thalassarche melanophrys -- black-browed albatross, West Point Island, Falkland Islands.

9 Comments

wright1 · 13 June 2011

Nice photography. The wings of the flying 'tross look so honed.

Mike Elzinga · 14 June 2011

Looks a lot like the Laysan albatross, or “Gooney bird” on Midway Island, Hawaii, and the Northern Pacific.

Shebardigan · 14 June 2011

/me gags at the infestation of blog spammers we have seen of late.

Cafeeine · 14 June 2011

I am tickled by his scientific name, "thalassarche". Seamaster indeed.

Lurker111 · 17 June 2011

Okay ... So where's the black brow?

Oh! They mean _eyebrow_, not forehead brow.

Stanton · 17 June 2011

Lurker111 said: Okay ... So where's the black brow? Oh! They mean _eyebrow_, not forehead brow.
Yeah, "ophrys" means eyebrow: if it was "brow/brow," I think it would be "metopon," like Bolpometopon (the humphead parrotfish)

noam_ghish · 17 June 2011

i'm trying to post of the PT forum, after the bar closes, it says I don't have permission and I just registered. why?

noam_ghish · 17 June 2011

never mind, I got it

Lurker111 · 18 June 2011

Thanks. Speaking of brows, this reminds me of a Carol Burnett/Harvey Corman skit on the old Carol Burnett show. Carol and Harvey are sitting at a table (they've been thrown together for a "date"). Makeup has given Carol buck teeth and a unibrow. Harvey stutters, "H-Have you always had one eyebrow?" Carol replies, "Oh no! I plucked the other one out!"