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Antipodean Albatross
Diomedea antipodensis Robertson, CJR & Warham, 1992
Diomedeidae — Albatrosses
Antipodean Albatross, Diomedea antipodensis, is a seabird of the albatross family that breeds in the Pacific Ocean around the Chatham, Antipodes, Auckland and Campbell Islands, east and south of New Zealand’s South Island. Outside the breeding season it ranges into the Tasman Sea off south-eastern Australia and across the south Pacific. It is a large bird and was only separated from the wandering albatross group in 1992. Breeding birds are darker than snowy albatrosses, and the species is often hard to tell apart from young birds of that group.
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Diomedeidae — Albatrosses
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean: Chatham, Antipodes, Auckland and Campbell is. (e, s of South I.; New Zealand)
- Nonbreeding range
- to Tasman Sea (off se Australia) and se Pacific
