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Black-browed Albatrosses are very big seabirds with an almost all-white body plumage. Adult birds have a broad black fringe all around the underwings. The upperwings are all dark-grey. The bill is yellow-orange, with a pink tip, the black eyes are outlined by a grey-black eye stripe. Immature birds and different races have varying degrees of grey in their plumage, especially on the underwings. Immature Black-browed Albatrosses also have a brownish-black bill, or yellowish bill with a dark tip.

The Black-browed Albatross is in some references considered to be conspecific with the Campbell Albatross.

The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org .

The global distribution of the Black-browed Albatross is available HERE .

There are two races of Black-browed Albatrosses, nominate race "melanophris" and race "impavida". The range of the Black-browed Albatross is circumpolar in the southern hemisphere, encompassing all southern oceans and coastal waters around the southern continents. They breed on islands in the southern oceans, with the largest population breeding on the Falkland Islands. The South Atlantic population is most likely to occasionally migrate/disperse northwards, into the northern Atlantic.

In Europe Black-browed Albatrosses can occasionally be found along the Atlantic and North Sea coast.

Black-browed Albatrosses are pelagic birds that, when not breeding, spend most of their time out on the open ocean and in coastal waters. They breed on offshore islands.

We have not seen a Black-browed Albatross in Europe yet, but have spotted race "melanophris" in Australia.