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Light-mantled Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata)

Light-mantled Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata)
Light-mantled Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata)

About Light-mantled Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata)

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

The light-mantled albatross also known as the grey-mantled albatross or the light-mantled sooty albatross, is a small albatross in the genus Phoebetria, which it shares with the sooty albatross. The light-mantled albatross was first described as Phoebetria palpebrata by Johann Reinhold Forster, in 1785, based on a specimen from south of the Cape of Good Hope.

Source: Wikipedia

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