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==Vagrancy== Although this is a rare occurrence, on several occasions a black-browed albatross has summered in [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[gannet]] colonies ([[Bass Rock]], [[Hermaness]] and now [[Sula Sgeir]]) for a number of years. Ornithologists believe that it was the same bird, known as ''Albert'', who lives in north [[Scotland]].<ref>Ivens, Martin (9 May 2007)</ref><ref name="BBC-6641021">{{cite news | publisher = BBC | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6641021.stm | title = No romance for lovesick albatross | date = 9 May 2007 | access-date = 9 May 2007}}</ref> It is believed that the bird was blown off course into the North Atlantic in 1967.<ref name="BBC-6641021" /> A similar incident took place in the gannet colony in the [[Faroe Islands]] island of [[Mykines, Faroe Islands|Mykines]], where a black-browed albatross lived among the gannets for over 30 years. This incident is the reason why an albatross is referred to as a "gannet king" ([[Faroese language|Faroese]]: súlukongur) in Faroese.<ref name="Ryggi1">á Ryggi, M. (1951)</ref> In July 2013 the first recorded sighting of a black-browed albatross in the Bahamas was made from the Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organisation's research vessel, off Sandy Point, [[Abaco Islands|Abaco]]. For four consecutive years from 2014 on, a bird - probably the same individual named ''Albert'' - has been sighted over [[Heligoland]], and on the east coast of England, spending much time at Bempton Cliffs. The individual spent lots of time at Bempton over the summers of 2021 and 2022, but failed to return subsequently.<ref name="Fotos">[http://www.club300.de/gallery/index.php?gal=1&cat=0&mode=1&val=13 Fotonachweise] vom 28./29. Mai, 4./5. Juni und 12./13. Juni 2014 auf Helgoland. Bericht mit Fotos in ''Der Falke'' Nr. 8/2014, S. 34–37.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.birdguides.com/species/species.asp?sp=010007 |title=Beobachtungsnachweise bei birdguides.com |access-date=5 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421094911/http://www.birdguides.com/species/species.asp?sp=010007 |archive-date=21 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/tiere/seltener-vogel-auf-helgoland-er-ist-wieder-da-14174541.html Sighting on Heligoland, 2016 (German)]</ref><ref>[http://www.cn-online.de/stadt-land/news/albatros-fliegt-wieder-helgoland-an.html Sighting on Heligoland, 2017 (German)]</ref> [[File:Thalassarche melanophris heligoland-4.jpg|thumb|Black-browed albatross on [[Heligoland]] (April 2017)]]
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