Black-footed Albatross
Phoebastria nigripes(Audubon, JJ, 1839)
English (US) Black-footed Albatross
The Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) 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 western Hawaiian Islands, and Izu, Bonin, and southern Ryukyu islands (southern Japan); ranges North Pacific from Bering Sea to Tropic of CancerRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Phoebastria nigripes
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Black-footed Albatross
- Described by
- (Audubon, JJ, 1839)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Diomedea nigripes
- Described by
- (Audubon, JJ, 1839)
- Type locality
- Pacific Ocean, lat. 30° 44' N., long. 146° W.
- Original description
- Ornithological Biography (etc.) 5 p.327
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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