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Southern Royal Albatross
Diomedea epomophora Lesson, RP, 1825
Diomedeidae — Albatrosses
Southern Royal Albatross, Diomedea epomophora, is a seabird of the albatross family that breeds in the Pacific Ocean on Enderby and Campbell islands south of New Zealand’s South Island. Outside the breeding season it is found across temperate and subantarctic oceans in the south. It is one of the two largest albatrosses, with a wingspan that can exceed 3 m. The species nests on tussock grassland, plateaus and ridges, and lays a single egg every two years.
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Diomedeidae — Albatrosses
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean: Enderby (Auckland) and Campbell is. (s of South I.; New Zealand)
- Nonbreeding range
- widespread all s temperate and subantarctic oceans
