Stats

Lifespan

30-45 yrs

Size

Large

Diet

Carnivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Colony

Biome

Tropical ocean

Range

Galapagos Islands

Movement

Flight

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Speed

Status

Critically Endangered

About

The Waved Albatross is a large seabird that lives in the tropical waters off the coasts of Peru and Ecuador. During the breeding season, this bird flies from the Ecuadorian and Peruvian coasts to a single site off the coast of Peru, 1,000 km to the east.

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

Phoebastria

Species

Phoebastria irrorata