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Northern Royal Albatross
Diomedea sanfordi Murphy, 1917
Diomedeidae — Albatrosses
Northern Royal Albatross, Diomedea sanfordi, is a bird of the albatross family that breeds in the Pacific Ocean at Otago Peninsula in south-east South Island and at the Sisters and Forty Fours in the Chatham Islands east of South Island, New Zealand. Outside the breeding season it ranges widely across the southern temperate and subantarctic oceans, mainly in the Pacific. It was first described by Murphy in 1917. It is set apart from the southern royal albatross by its all-dark upper wings, unlike the larger white areas seen in that species.
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Diomedeidae — Albatrosses
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean: Otago Pen. (se South I.) and Sisters and Forty Fours (Chatham Is., e of South I.; New Zealand)
- Nonbreeding range
- widespread all s temperate and subantarctic oceans, mostly Pacific
