Albatrosses (W)
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The albatrosses are seabirds in the family Diomedeidae, which is closely allied to the petrels, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and also in the north Pacific, but are absent from the north Atlantic (although fossil remains show they once ranged there too). Albatrosses are amongst the largest of flying birds, and the great albatrosses from the genus Diomedea have the largest wingspans of any birds.
- North Pacific albatrosses (Phoebastria)
- Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)
- Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes)
- Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata)
- Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus)
- Great albatrosses (Diomedea)
- Royal Albatross (Diomedea epomophora)
- Wandering Albatross '(' Diomedea exulans)
- Amsterdam Albatross (Diomedea amsterdamensis)
- Mollymawks (Thalassarche)
- Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos)
- Eastern Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassarche carteri)
- Buller's Albatross (Thalassarche bulleri)
- Shy Albatross (Thalassarche cauta)
- Chatham Albatross (Thalassarche eremita)
- Salvin's Albatross (Thalassarche salvini)
- Grey-headed Albatross (Thalassarche chrysostoma )
- Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris)
- Sooty albatrosses (Phoebetria)
- Dark-mantled Sooty Albatross (Phoebetria fusca)
- Light-mantled Sooty Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata)
