Short-tailed Albatross

Short-tailed Albatross
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Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Aequorlitornithes
Clade:	Ardeae
Clade:	Aequornithes
Clade:	Austrodyptornithes
Order:	Procellariiformes
Family:	Diomedeidae
Genus:	Phoebastria
Species:	P. albatrus
Binomial name
	Phoebastria albatrus; (Pallas, 1769)
Synonyms
	Diomedea albatrus

The Short-tailed Albatross or Steller's Albatross, Phoebastria albatrus, is a large rare seabird from the North Pacific. Although related to the other North Pacific albatrosses, it also exhibits behavioural and morphological links to the albatrosses of the Southern Ocean. It was described by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas from skins collected by the Georg Wilhelm Steller (after whom its other common name is derived). Once common, it was brought to the edge of extinction by the trade in feathers, but with protection has recently made a recovery.

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^ BirdLife International (2008). Phoebastria albatrus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 12 Mar 2009.
^ Brands, Sheila (14 Aug 2008). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification - Diomedea subg. Phoebastria -". Project: The Taxonomicon. Retrieved 22 Feb 2009.
^ American Ornithologists' Union (1998) [1983]. "Procellariiformes: Diomedeidae: Albatrosses". Check-list of North American Birds (PDF) (7th ed.). Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union . p. 12 . ISBN 1-891276-00-X.

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Projects

This article is part of Project Aves, a All Birds project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each bird, including made-up species.

This article is part of Project Procellariiformes, a All Birds project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each tubenose, including made-up species.

Thalassarche cauta portrait - SE Tasmania

This article is part of Project Diomedeidae, a All Birds project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each albatross, including made-up species.

[IUCN-1] BirdLife International (2008). Phoebastria albatrus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 12 Mar 2009.

[2] Brands, Sheila (14 Aug 2008). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification - Diomedea subg. Phoebastria -". Project: The Taxonomicon. Retrieved 22 Feb 2009.

[AOU-3] American Ornithologists' Union (1998) [1983]. "Procellariiformes: Diomedeidae: Albatrosses". Check-list of North American Birds (PDF) (7th ed.). Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union . p. 12 . ISBN 1-891276-00-X.

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