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Snowy Albatross (Diomedea exulans)

About Snowy Albatross (Diomedea exulans)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Tubenoses
  • Family: Albatrosses

The snowy albatross, also known as the wandering albatross, white-winged albatross, or goonie, is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae; they have a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It is the largest species of albatross and was long considered to be the same species as the Tristan albatross and the Antipodean albatross. Together with the Amsterdam albatross, it forms the wandering albatross species complex, which some began referring to more recently as "snowy".

Source: Wikipedia

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