Are you up for the challenge of identifying the unique features of these magnificent seabirds?

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Here's a beaut with a pure white body and completely black upper wings. What kind of albatross is pictured here?

Hint: this species are reality TV stars - people worldwide watch their live-streamed breeding season from a colony at Taiaroa Head near Dunedin.

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(Photo credit: PhotoTrip, Neil Bowman)

Northern royal albatross

Southern royal albatross

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Which of these is a shy or white-capped mollymawk?

NB: Small albatrosses are known as mollymawks.

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A (photo credit: Karl Magnacca)

B (photo credit: KWS photography)

C (photo credit: Sandy Thomas (iNaturalist))

D (photo credit: R Guilcas (iNaturalist))

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Aw, is he smiling at you? What a cutie. What kind of albatross is this?

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(Photo credit: R Guilcas (iNaturalist))

Salvin's mollymawk

Black-browed mollymawk

Light-mantled sooty albatross

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Which of these is a Buller's mollymawk?

Hint: northern and southern subspecies have head feather variations but both have striking bill colouring

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A (photo credit: Euan Moore)

B (photo credit: Peter and Shelly (iNaturalist))

C (photo credit: Niall Perrins (iNaturalist))

D (photo credit: Hugo Hulsberg (iNaturalist))

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Okay, time for a tricky one. These are both black-browed mollymawks. Which is the Campbell black-browed?

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A (photo credit: Andy Pollard (iNaturalist))

B (photo credit: Steve Murray (iNaturalist))

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