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Short-tailed Albatross
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species of bird
OverviewAI-generated
The Short-tailed Albatross (*Phoebastria albatrus*) is a species of bird in the family Diomedeidae, order Procellariiformes, class Aves, and phylum Chordata. Its parent taxon is the North Pacific albatross. The species is named after Georg Wilhelm Steller and has an accepted taxonomic status. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, a status recorded in 2018, and appears in Appendix I of CITES.
This marine organism has a wingspan of 226.5. It is oviparous, with a litter size of one and an egg incubation period of 64. Sexual maturity begins at an age of 7.5. The main food source for the Short-tailed Albatross is Teuthida.
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Species
Vulnerableshort-tailed albatross
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderProcellariiformes
- FamilyDiomedeidae
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- North Pacific albatross
- Named after
- Georg Wilhelm Steller
- Image
- Short tailed Albatross1.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Vulnerable
- taxon name
- Phoebastria albatrus
- Commons category
- Phoebastria albatrus
- Commons gallery
- Phoebastria albatrus
- taxon common name
- albatroz-de-cabeça-amarela
- wingspan
- 226.5
- CITES Appendix
- Appendix I of CITES
- short name
- P. albatrus
- age of onset of sexual maturity
- 7.5
- egg incubation period
- 64
- litter size
- 1
- has characteristic
- oviparity
- main food source
- Teuthida
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Encyclopedic overview
The short-tailed albatross or Steller's albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) is a large rare seabird from the North Pacific. Although related to the other North Pacific albatrosses, it also exhibits behavioural and morphological links to the albatrosses of the Southern Ocean. It was described by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas from skins collected by Georg Wilhelm Steller (after whom its other common name is derived). Once common, it was brought to the edge of extinction by the trade in feathers, but with protection efforts underway since the 1950s, the species is in the process of recovering with an increasing population trend. It is divided into two distinct subpopulations, one of which breeds on Tori-shima in the Izu islands south of Japan, and the other primarily on the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Short-tailed Albatross” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.