Short-tailed Albatross
Phoebastria albatrus - Albatros à queue courte
Systematics
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Order:
Procellariiformes
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Family:
Diomédéidés
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Genus:
Phoebastria
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Species:
albatrus
Descriptor
Biometrics
- Size: 94 cm
- Wingspan: 213 à 240 cm.
- Weight: 5100 à 7500 g
Geographic range
Identification
Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) is a species of bird in the Diomedeidae family.
Subspecific information monotypic species
Foreign names
- Albatros à queue courte,
- Albatros colicorto,
- albatroz-de-cabeça-amarela,
- Kurzschwanzalbatros,
- rövidfarkú albatrosz,
- Stellers Albatros,
- Albatros codacorta,
- gulnackad albatross,
- Gulhodealbatross,
- albatros bielochrbtý,
- albatros bělohřbetý,
- Korthalet Albatros,
- japaninalbatrossi,
- albatros cuacurt,
- albatros krótkosterny,
- īsastes albatross,
- Белоспинный альбатрос,
- アホウドリ,
- 短尾信天翁,
- 短尾信天翁,
Habitat
Marine Neritic : Pelagic, Subtidal Rock and Rocky Reefs, Subtidal Loose Rock/pebble/gravel, Subtidal Sandy, Subtidal Sandy-Mud, Macroalgal/Kelp, Seagrass (Submerged) ; Marine Oceanic : Epipelagic (0-200m), Mesopelagic (200-1000m) ; Marine Coastal/Supratidal : Sea Cliffs and Rocky Offshore Islands
Threats - protection
IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
in the Wild
Near
threatened
threatened
Not
evaluated
evaluated
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EW
CR
EN
VU
NT
LC
NE
Sources of information
- Albatrosses, Petrels and Shearwaters of the World, Onley Derek et Scofield Paul
- Vol. 2 - Handbook of the Birds of the World, Josep del Hoyo-Andrew Elliot--Jordi Sargatal
- Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
- All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- HBW Alive,
- Wikipedia (English version),
- IOC World Bird List (v14.1), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2024-04-18.
Other sources of interest
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