Light-mantled Albatross
Phoebetria palpebrata
- Near threatened
- Card rarity: Uncommon
- Birds
The light-mantled albatross, also known as the grey-mantled albatross or the light-mantled sooty albatross, is a small albatross in the genus Phoebetria, which it shares with the sooty albatross. The light-mantled albatross was first described as Phoebetria palpebrata by Johann Reinhold Forster, in 1785, based on a specimen from south of the Cape of Good Hope.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Diomedeidae
- Genus
- Phoebetria