Albatross
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Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes. They range widely in the Southern
Short tailed Albatross 1
Skeleton of a black-browed albatross on display at the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
![Unlike most Procellariiformes, albatrosses, like this black-footed albatross, can walk well on land.[citation needed]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Black_footed_albatross.jpg/500px-Black_footed_albatross.jpg)
Unlike most Procellariiformes, albatrosses, like this black-footed albatross, can walk well on land.[citation needed]
A southern royal albatross: Note the large, hooked beak and nasal tubes.
Procellariiformes
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Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families; the albatrosses, the petrels and shearwaters, and two families of storm petrels. Formerly called Tubinares and still called tube
Albatross
…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. They are absent from the North Atlantic, although fossil remains of…
Thalassarche bulleri in flight 3 SE Tasmania
Pterodroma macroptera from Godman's Monograph of the Petrels, 1907–1910
The southern royal albatross is one of the largest of the Procellariiformes.
A white-faced storm petrel moves across the water's surface in a series of bounding leaps.