Albatrosses
Order: Procellariiformes. Family: Diomedeidae
The albatrosses are amongst the largest of flying birds, and the great albatrosses from the genus Diomedea have the largest wingspans of any extant birds.
- Yellow-nosed Albatross, Thalassarche chlororhynchos (C)
- Shy Albatross, Thalassarche cauta (C)
- Black-browed Albatross, Thalassarche melanophris (A)
- Light-mantled Albatross, Phoebetria palpebrata (A)
- Wandering Albatross, Diomedea exulans (A)
- Laysan Albatross, Phoebastria immutabilis
- Black-footed Albatross, Phoebastria nigripes
- Short-tailed Albatross, Phoebastria albatrus
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