Far From Land The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds

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nation for the near- absence of albatrosses from Equatorial regions.* Or
there may be a band of westerly winds, blowing along the Inter- tropical
Convergence, and clearly unwelcome to a southbound bird tracking
south- west. Cory’s Shearwaters, a species met in Chapter 4, breeding
in the North Atlantic and occupying several distinct South Atlantic

• (^) The one exception is the Waved Albatross, a species largely confined to nesting on the Galápa-
  gos and feeding off Peru.
  Figure- of- 8 migration routes of 16 Short- tailed Shearwaters tracked
  from Great Dog Island, Tasmania. Reproduced with permission of
  BirdLife Australia, from the work cited in Note 19, Chapter 6.
  60º N
  30º N
  30º N
  60º N
  100º E 150º E 160º W
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