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Antipodean Albatross
Diomedea antipodensis
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About the Antipodean Albatross
The Antipodean albatross (Diomedea antipodensis) (Māori: Toroa) is a large seabird in the albatross family. Its recognition as more than a subspecies of the wandering albatross is relatively recent, and still not accepted by all authorities. Antipodean albatrosses are smaller than other former wandering albatrosses, now called snowy albatrosses, and breed in predominantly brown plumage, but are otherwise difficult to distinguish from young snowy albatrosses (snowy albatrosses grow lighter in color with age, while the Antipodean stays darker).
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Classification
- Scientific name
- Diomedea antipodensis
- Family
- Albatrosses
- Order
- Procellariiformes
Similar species
Other members of the albatrosses family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos
- Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris
- Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes
- Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita
- Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis
- Light-mantled Albatross Phoebetria palpebrata
- Salvin's Albatross Thalassarche salvini
- Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus
- Waved Albatross Phoebastria irrorata
- White-capped Albatross Thalassarche cauta
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