Snowy Albatross

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: January, May, September and November · Most records: Australia, South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands, New Zealand

Snowy Albatross has been recorded at 35 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 9 countries and regions.

Records by month Southern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Eaglehawk Neck Pelagic TripAustralia998 records
2. Prion IslandSouth Georgia & South Sandwich Islands92 records
3. Kaikoura – offshore – Albatross Encounter pelagicNew Zealand90 records

Countries and regions with the most records

AustraliaSouth Georgia & South Sandwich IslandsNew ZealandAntarcticaFrench Southern TerritoriesFalkland IslandsArgentinaChile

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The snowy albatross (Diomedea exulans), also known as the wandering albatross, white-winged albatross, or goonie, is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae; they have a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It is the largest species of albatross and was long considered to be the same species as the Tristan albatross and the Antipodean albatross. Together with the Amsterdam albatross, it forms the wandering albatross species complex, which some began referring to more recently as "snowy".

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