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Northern Royal Albatross
Northern Royal Albatross
Diomedea sanfordi
Aves
ENDANGERED

Stats

Lifespan
40-60 yrs
Size
Large
Diet
Carnivore
Activity
Diurnal
Social
Colony
Biome
Pelagic ocean
Range
Southern Ocean
Movement
Flight
Breeding
Egg-laying
Defense
Speed
Status
Endangered

About

The Northern Royal Albatross is a large seabird in the albatross family. It was split from the closely related Southern Royal Albatross as recently as 1998, though not all scientists support that conclusion and some consider both of them to be subspecies of the royal albatross.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    egg
    A clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
  2. 2.
    hatchling
    A naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
  3. 3.
    juvenile
    A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
  4. 4.
    adult
    Fully grown with adult plumage.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Procellariiformes
Family
Diomedeidae
Genus
Diomedea
Species
Diomedea sanfordi