North Pacific albatross
| North Pacific albatross | |
|---|---|
| Waved albatrosses on Española Island, Galapagos | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Procellariiformes |
| Family: | Diomedeidae |
| Genus: | Phoebastria Reichenbach, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Diomedea brachyura Temminck, 1829 | |
| Species | |
|
Phoebastria immutabilis | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Diomedea (sensu Coues, 1866) | |
The North Pacific albatrosses are large seabirds from the genus Phoebastria in the albatross family. They are the most tropical of the albatrosses, with two species (the Laysan and black-footed albatrosses) nesting in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, one on sub-tropical islands south of Japan (the short-tailed albatross), and one nesting on the equator (the waved albatross).