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Light-mantled Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata) Alternate name(s): "Light-mantled Sooty Albatross", "Grey-mantled Albatross" Size: 80-90 cm; wing span 1.8-2.2 m Weight: 2.5-3.7 kg

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Physical description Click here for a physical description Light-mantled Albatrosses are big seabirds that have an all dark grey-brown plumage, except for their name-giving mantle, which is light-grey, and white eye rings. The primaries have grey edges and the central tail feather is also light-grey. Juveniles have some scalloping on the back, neck and chest.

Taxonomy, classification See Light-mantled Albatross at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species Click here for information on habitat and range The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org . The global distribution of the Light-mantled Albatross is available HERE . Light-mantled Albatrosses live on the open sea of the Southern Ocean in a circumpolar distribution. In Australia Light-mantled Albatrosses can occasionally reach coastal waters and the southern coastline around Tasmania and mainly the south-east of the continent, including several offshore islands, while usually they stay out on the continental shelf. Light-mantled Albatrosses breed on antarctic and subantarctic islands, including Macquarie Island.

Sightings Click here for sighting information B. Hensen reports spotting Light-mantled Albatrosses off Macquarie Island, in the Southern Ocean, in December 1993. All photographic and sighting information presented on this page has kindly been contributed by B. Hensen.

Photos

ADULT

Sex unknown

Lateral view of an adult Light-mantled Albatross in flight (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Off Macquarie Island, Southern Ocean, December 1993]

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