North Pacific albatross

North Pacific albatross
Waved albatrosses on Española Island, Galapagos
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Procellariiformes
Family:	Diomedeidae
Genus:	Phoebastria Reichenbach, 1853
Type species
Diomedea brachyura[1] Temminck, 1829
Species
Phoebastria immutabilis Phoebastria nigripes Phoebastria irrorata Phoebastria albatrus †Phoebastria californica †Phoebastria anglica †Phoebastria rexsularum †Phoebastria cf. albatrus †Phoebastria cf. immutabilis †Phoebastria cf. nigripes
Synonyms
Diomedea (sensu Coues, 1866) Julietata Mathews & Hallstrom, 1943

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 (the Laysan and black-footed albatrosses) nesting in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, one on sub-tropical islands south of Japan (the short-tailed albatross), and one nesting on the equator (the waved albatross).