North Pacific albatross
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The North Pacific albatrosses are large seabirds from the genus Phoebastria in the albatross family. They are the most tropical of the albatrosses, with two species (the Laysan and black-footed albatrosses) nesting in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, one on sub-tropical islands south of Japan (the short-tailed albatross), and one nesting on the equator (the waved albatross).
North Pacific albatross | |
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Waved albatrosses on Española Island, Galapagos | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Procellariiformes |
Family: | Diomedeidae |
Genus: | Phoebastria Reichenbach, 1853 |
Type species | |
Diomedea brachyura[1] Temminck, 1829 | |
Species | |
Phoebastria immutabilis | |
Synonyms | |
Diomedea (sensu Coues, 1866) |