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These feathered giants have the longest wingspan of any bird—up to 11 feet! The wandering albatross is the biggest of some two dozen different species. Albatrosses use their formidable...
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific.
- Diomedeidae, G.R. Gray 1840
- Procellariiformes
29 de mar. de 2024 · Albatross, (family Diomedeidae), any of more than a dozen species of large seabirds that collectively make up the family Diomedeidae (order Procellariiformes). Because of their tameness on land, many albatrosses are known by the common names mollymawk (from the Dutch for “foolish gull”) and gooney.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
17 de ago. de 2023 · Los albatros son aves marinas que pertenecen a la familia Diomedeidae. Tienen alas estrechas y de gran longitud, con una envergadura que podría llegar a medir 3,5 metros, lo que les coloca entre las aves voladoras más grandes (pueden pesar casi 12 kilos).
La familia Diomedeidae comprende entre 13 y 24 especies (el número de especies todavía está sujeto a debate) englobadas en cuatro géneros: Diomedea (grandes albatros), Thalassarche, Phoebastria (albatros del Pacífico Norte) y Phoebetria (albatros oscuros). De los cuatro géneros, se considera que los del Pacífico Norte son un taxón ...
24 de jul. de 2020 · Albatrosses: Facts about the biggest flying birds. References. By Rachel Kaufman. published 24 July 2020. The biggest flying bird in the world can go for years without touching land, has ...
Albatrosses are masters of soaring flight, able to glide over vast tracts of ocean without flapping their wings. So fully have they adapted to their oceanic existence that they spend the first...
