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Black-footed Albatross
Phoebastria nigripes (Audubon, 1839)
Diomedeidae — Albatrosses
Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes breeds on Torishima, Kita-ko-jima, Muko-jima and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and ranges across the North Pacific from the Bering Sea to the Tropic of Cancer when not breeding. It is an albatross in the family Diomedeidae and order Procellariiformes. Most of the population is in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It is a dark-plumaged bird, with black feet and bill, and adults show white around the base of the bill and below the eye. It was described by Audubon in 1839.
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Diomedeidae — Albatrosses
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean: Torishima (s Izu), Kita-ko-jima (Senkaku Is., w of Okinawa), and Muko-jima (Ogasawara=Bonin Is.; s of Japan) and Northwestern Hawaiian Is. (most of population)
- Nonbreeding range
- North Pacific from Bering Sea to Tropic of Cancer
