White-capped Albatross
Thalassarche cauta
Albatrosses (Diomedeidae) · Procellariiformes (Procellariiformes)
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Spesso confuso con
Nei quiz i giocatori confondono più spesso White-capped Albatross con questi uccelli: o questa specie è stata scelta per errore, o il contrario.
| Specie | Confusioni |
|---|---|
| Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus | 2 |
| Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos | 2 |
| Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche carteri | 2 |
| Gray-headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma | 2 |
| Salvin's Albatross Thalassarche salvini | 2 |
Famiglia
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific. They are absent from the North Atlantic, although fossil remains of short-tailed albatross show they lived there up to the Pleistocene, and occasional vagrants are found.
Ordine
Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families; the albatrosses, the petrels and shearwaters, and two families of storm petrels. Formerly called Tubinares and still called tubenoses in English, Procellariiformes are often referred to collectively as the petrels, a term that has been applied to all members of the order, or more commonly all the families except the albatrosses. They are almost exclusively pelagic (feeding in the open ocean), and have a cosmopolitan distribution across the world's oceans, …