![]() ![]() They excrete a high saline solution from their nose, which is a probable cause for the pink-yellow stain seen on some animals' necks. They also have a salt gland that is situated above the nasal passage and helps desalinate their bodies, due to the high amount of ocean water that they imbibe. ![]() The wandering albatross is the whitest of the wandering albatross species complex, the other species having a great deal more brown and black on the wings and body as breeding adults, very closely resembling immature wandering albatrosses. Males have whiter wings than females with just the tips and trailing edges of the wings black. The adults have white bodies with black and white wings. The plumage varies with age, with the juveniles starting chocolate brown. exulans) are smaller but are now generally deemed to belong to different species. Albatrosses from outside the "snowy" wandering albatross group ( D. On South Georgia, fledglings were found to average 10.9 kg (24 lb). Immature birds have been recorded weighing as much as 16.1 kg (35 lb) during their first flights (at which time they may still have fat reserves that will be shed as they continue to fly). On South Georgia, 52 males were found to average 9.11 kg (20.1 lb) while 53 females were found to average 7.27 kg (16.0 lb). However, 10 unsexed adults from the Crozets averaged 9.6 kg (21 lb). In the Crozet Islands, males averaged 9.44 kg (20.8 lb) while females averaged 7.84 kg (17.3 lb). On Macquarie Island, three males averaged 8.4 kg (19 lb) and three females averaged 6.2 kg (14 lb). exulans, which they elevated to species status, and use the term wandering albatross to refer to a species complex that includes the proposed species D. Some experts considered there to be four subspecies of D. The type locality has been restricted to South Georgia. Diomedea refers to Diomedes whose companions turned to birds, and exulans or exsul are Latin for "exile" or "wanderer" referring to its extensive flights. The wandering albatross was first described as Diomedea exulans by Carl Linnaeus, in 1758, based on a specimen from the Cape of Good Hope. Some individual wandering albatrosses are known to circumnavigate the Southern Ocean three times, covering more than 120,000 km (75,000 mi), in one year. It has the greatest known wingspan of any living bird, and is also one of the most far-ranging birds. ![]() It is one of the largest, best known, and most studied species of bird in the world. The wandering albatross is one of the two largest members of the genus Diomedea (the great albatrosses), being similar in size to the southern royal albatross. Together with the Amsterdam albatross, it forms the wandering albatross species complex. The SACC has a proposal on the table to split this species, and BirdLife International has already split it. A few authors still consider them all subspecies of the same species. It was the last species of albatross to be described, and was long considered the same species as the Tristan albatross and the Antipodean albatross. The wandering albatross, snowy albatross, white-winged albatross or goonie ( Diomedea exulans) is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean.
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