North Pacific Albatrosses
Phoebastria
The North Pacific albatrosses are large seabirds from the genus Phoebastria in the albatross family. They are the most tropical of the albatrosses, with two species (the Laysan and black-footed albatrosses) nesting in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, one on sub-tropical islands south of Japan (the short-tailed albatross), and one nesting on the equator (the waved albatross).
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species
Black-footed Albatross
speciesPhoebastria nigripes
Laysan Albatross
speciesPhoebastria immutabilis
Waved Albatross
speciesPhoebastria irrorata
Short-tailed Albatross
speciesPhoebastria albatrus
Laysan × Black-footed Albatross
hybridPhoebastria immutabilis × nigripes
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 4140.