Albatross

:This article is about the bird family.

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Diomedea

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Thalassarche

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Phoebastria

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Phoebetria

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The albatrosses are seabirds in the family Diomedeidae, which is closely allied to the petrels, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and also in the north Pacific, but are absent from the north Atlantic (although fossil remains show they once ranged there too). Albatrosses are amongst the largest of flying birds, and the great albatrosses from the genus Diomedea have the largest wingspans of any birds.

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Albatross related Images and Photos (experimental)

The Albatross Flying Near the Ship	Dwight T. Albatross's The Goon Noir #3 Comic Book	Albatross in Flight over Sunlit Ocean	The Albatross Illustration from "Robur Le Conquerant" by Jules Verne Paris Hetzel 1886
A Tiger Shark Feeds on a Young Albatross