Phoebastria
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2026-08-05: worms_id 343625 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)
The North Pacific albatrosses are large seabirds from the genus Phoebastria in the albatross family. They are the most tropical of the albatrosses, with two species nesting in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, one on sub-tropical islands south of Japan, and one nesting on the equator.W CalCOFI holds 2,174 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 3 taxa under it.R
- 2,174
- observations
- 2,174
- records
- 1987–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 3
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 3 taxa · Phoebastria nigripes most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:553521")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:553521'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 3 taxa · Phoebastria nigripes most observed
- sp Phoebastria nigripes Black-Footed Albatross1,809
- sp Phoebastria immutabilis Laysan Albatross363
- sp Phoebastria albatrus Short-Tailed Albatross2
Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Diomedeidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · juan.jeri.vidal · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Phoebastria irrorata · source
- Photo · John Sterling · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “North Pacific albatross” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354827140
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗