A photo of a Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans)
Wandering Albatross

Wandering Albatross

Diomedea exulans

The wandering albatross, snowy albatross, white-winged albatross or goonie (Diomedea exulans) is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It was the last species of albatross to be described, and was long considered the same species as the Tristan albatross and the Antipodean albatross. A few authors still consider them all subspecies of the same species. The SACC has a proposal on the table to split this species, and BirdLife International has already split it. Together with the Amsterdam albatross, it forms the wandering albatross species complex. The wandering albatross is one of the two largest members of the genus Diomedea (the great albatrosses), being similar in size to the southern royal albatross. It is one of the largest, best known, and most studied species of bird in the world. It has the greatest known wingspan of any living bird, and is also one of the most far-ranging birds. Some individual wandering albatrosses are known to circumnavigate the Southern Ocean three times, covering more than 120,000 km (75,000 mi), in one year
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Rebeckah Watkins
Wednesday 01 Mar 2023 - 1:11am
Chile
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Claudia Horner
Tuesday 24 Jan 2023 - 9:57pm
Argentina
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Erik Ostrander
Thursday 27 Jan 2022 - 7:53am
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