Recruitment age of wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) on Bird Island, South Georgia, from 1982 to 2021

This dataset contains the age at first observed breeding attempt (recruitment age) of wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) ringed as fledglings between 1976 and 2008, in a study colony at Bird Island, South Georgia. Observations of breeding attempts presented in this dataset were made from 1983 to 2021. Birds were sexed from plumage.

Data were collected by Bird Island Zoological Field Assistants as part of the long-term monitoring of this colony, and were collated as part of a study of wandering albatross recruitment and the behaviour of immature and deferring adults attending the colony.

Funded as part of the Bird Island Long-term Monitoring Programme at BAS.