Snowy albatross

Diomedea exulans · Diomedeidae

The snowy albatross, also known as the wandering albatross, white-winged albatross, or goonie, is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae; they have a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It is the largest species of albatross and was long considered to be the same species as the Tristan albatross and the Antipodean albatross. Together with the Amsterdam albatross, it forms the wandering albatross species complex, which some began referring to more recently as "snowy".

Where the Snowy albatross lives

Recorded in Ashmore and Cartier Is., S. Geo. and the Is., South Africa, New Zealand, Fr. S. Antarctic Lands, Chile, Antarctica and Falkland Is. (Oceania, Seven seas (open ocean), Africa, South America and Antarctica).

Most records fall in Western Cape, Western Australia and Macquarie Island.

See the Snowy albatross’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Vulnerable (VU). At risk: it could become endangered. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 158,960 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.