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Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross
Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross
Thalassarche chlororhynchos
Aves
ENDANGERED

Stats

Lifespan
20-50 yrs
Size
Large
Diet
Carnivore
Activity
Diurnal
Social
Colony
Biome
Open ocean
Range
South Atlantic
Movement
Flight
Breeding
Egg-laying
Defense
Speed
Status
Endangered

About

Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses are the largest seabirds in the world, reaching up to 10 feet in height. They have a distinctive yellow-orange snout, which makes them easy to spot as they soar across the ocean.

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
Thalassarche
Species
Thalassarche chlororhynchos