Northern royal albatross  (Diomedea sanfordi)

Range

The majority of northern royal albatrosses breed on Forty-Fours, Big and Little Sister Islands (Chatham Islands), but breeding also occurs on Taiaroa Head (Otago Peninsula, South Island) and Enderby Island (Auckland Islands), New Zealand. Non-breeding birds occupy the Southern Oceans (2).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

The northern royal albatross typically nests on the flat summits of small islands, but in the non-breeding season inhabits the open oceans (2).

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