阿島信天翁

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同属物种

安岛信天翁

Antipodean Albatross

北方皇家信天翁

Northern Royal Albatross

漂泊信天翁

Snowy Albatross

南方皇家信天翁

Southern Royal Albatross

特島信天翁

Tristan Albatross

形态与习性

The Amsterdam albatross or Amsterdam Island albatross (Diomedea amsterdamensis), is a large albatross which breeds only on Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean. It was only described in 1983, and was thought by some researchers to be a subspecies of the wandering albatross, D. exulans (now the snowy albatross). BirdLife International and the IOC recognize it as a species, James Clements does not, and the SACC has a proposal on the table to split the species. More recently, mitochondrial