Northern Royal Albatross
Diomedea sanfordiMurphy, RC, 1917
English (US) Northern Royal Albatross
The Northern Royal Albatross (Diomedea sanfordi) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Diomedeidae (Albatrosses) in the order Procellariiformes.
Range: breeds mostly Sisters and Forty Fours (Chatham Islands), also Otago Peninsula of southeastern South Island (New Zealand); ranges all southern temperate and subantarctic oceans, mostly PacificRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Diomedea sanfordi
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- Northern Royal Albatross
- Described by
- Murphy, RC, 1917
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Diomedea (Rhothonia) sanfordi
- Described by
- Murphy, RC, 1917
- Type locality
- Off Corral, Chile.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 37 p.861
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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