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Antipodean Albatross
Antipodean Albatross
Diomedea antipodensis
Aves
ENDANGERED

Stats

Lifespan
40-50 yrs
Size
Huge
Diet
Carnivore
Activity
Diurnal
Social
Colony
Biome
Open ocean
Range
Southern Ocean
Movement
Flight
Breeding
Egg-laying
Defense
Speed
Status
Endangered

About

Antipodean albatrosses are large seabirds that breed in predominantly brown plumage. They have the longest wingspan of any bird, with a wingspan that can reach up to 10.8 meters.

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 antipodensis