Wandering Albatross
Diomedea exulans
Summary 2
The Wandering Albatross, Snowy Albatross or White-winged Albatross,Diomedea exulans, is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It was the first species of albatross to be described, and was long considered the same species as the Tristan Albatross and the Antipodean Albatross. In fact, a few authors still consider them all subspecies of the same species. The SACC has a proposal on the table to split this...
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