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A 2007 vagrant record of an Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos has now been added to the official British List, as published in the July 2010 issue of British Birds.  The bird, a juvenile from a photograph, turned up in a Somerset garden on 30 June 2007, with two subsequent sightings made (click here).

Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses have been regularly reported as vagrants in the northern hemisphere from both sides of the Atlantic, most recently in Canada (click here to access the latest update on plans to give the Canadian bird a lift back to the southern hemisphere).

See also http://www.acap.aq/latest-news/crossing-the-line-albatrosses-changing-hemispheres for a summary of across-the-equator records for this species, endemic to the UK Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 14 August 2010