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birds. They have the largest wingspans of any bird, being up to 3.5 m (11 ft) from tip to tip, although the average is a little over 3 m (9.8 ft). Large adult males of these two species may exceed 11 kg (24 lb) in weight, as heavy as a large
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are totally white-bodied, while adult females and younger animals of the other species have dark pencilling marks on the edges of their feathers. Generally the smaller species or subspecies and the juveniles have more dark brown colour. The recently discovered
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The great albatrosses themselves form two species complexes, the wandering and Amsterdam albatrosses, and the royal albatrosses. The splitting of the great albatrosses into six or seven
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is tentative since most of them were discovered before the splitting of this genus. Especially the Southern Hemisphere species probably belong to other genera.
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Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis
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as adults, with birds becoming whiter as they age. The two royal albatrosses at all ages and the larger, older male
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in the US. These may in part be identical with the forms mentioned above. Assignment of the undescribed taxa to
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Nunn, Gary B.; Cooper, John; Jouventin, Pierre; Robertson, Chris J. R.; Robertson Graham G. (1996).
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A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus
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At least four species were found in the Early Pliocene deposits of Lee Creek Mine,
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retains the dark brown plumage of juvenile birds into adulthood.
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are the largest of the albatrosses and are among the largest of
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The earliest known fossils of the genus are from the Middle
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died his companions were turned into white seabirds. The
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has been accepted by most, though not all, authorities.
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Index

Diomedea
Diomedéa
Pliocene
SGI-2016-South Georgia (Prion Island)–Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) 03.jpg
Snowy albatross
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Procellariiformes
Diomedeidae
Diomedea
Linnaeus
1758
Type species
Diomedea exulans
Linnaeus
seabirds
genus
albatross
family
sooty albatrosses
mollymawks
North Pacific albatrosses
species
snowy albatross
southern royal albatross
flying

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