List of Birds of The Cook Islands - Albatrosses

Albatrosses

Order: Procellariiformes Family: Diomedeidae

The albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds, and the great albatrosses from the genus Diomedea have the largest wingspans of any extant birds. There are 21 species worldwide and 1 species which occurs in the Cook Islands.

  • Royal Albatross Diomedea epomophora

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