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Sooty Albatross
Phoebetria fusca (Hilsenberg, 1822)
Diomedeidae — Albatrosses
Sooty Albatross, Phoebetria fusca, is an albatross of the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean, breeding on temperate and subantarctic islands including the Tristan da Cunha group with Gough, Amsterdam and St. Paul islands, and the Prince Edward, Crozet and Kerguelen islands. Outside the breeding season it ranges through the temperate southern Atlantic and Indian oceans, centred on the Subtropical convergence. It was described by Hilsenberg in 1822. It belongs to the family Diomedeidae within the order Procellariiformes.
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Diomedeidae — Albatrosses
- Breeding range
- Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean: temperate and subantarctic is. Tristan da Cunha group including Gough (sc Atlantic Ocean), Amsterdam and St. Paul is. (sc Indian Ocean), Prince Edward, Crozet and Kerguelen is. (sw to se Indian Ocean)
- Nonbreeding range
- temperate s Atlantic and Indian oceans, centered on Subtropical convergence
