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Snowy Albatross

🇳🇱 Grote Albatros ·Diomedea exulans

VUvulnerable 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
  2. 2. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
  3. 3. © Sam Gordon · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  4. 4. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © eloise kerroux · CC BY 4.0
  6. 6. Kerguelen, TF:© pougeon · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. Île Kerguélen, Terres australes et antarctiques françaises:© Adrien Mauss · CC BY-NC 4.0
  8. 8. El Cabo Occidental, Sudáfrica:© mario_mairal · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  9. 9. Chemin de Chêvres, French Southern Territories, TF:© paolo-parsy · CC BY-NC 4.0
  10. 10. TF:© eloise kerroux · CC BY 4.0
Snowy Albatross, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The wandering albatross , snowy albatross , white-winged albatross or goonie ( Diomedea exulans ) is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It was the first species of albatross to be described, and was long considered the same species as the Tristan albatross and the Antipodean albatross. A few authors still consider them all subspecies of the same species. The SACC has a proposal on the table to split this...

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 1,248iNaturalist observations
  • weight 9.1 kgadult, up to
  • threat VUvulnerable

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 1,248 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Weighs up to about 9.1 kg.
  • Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
  • Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

fact sheet

English
Snowy Albatross
Nederlands
Grote Albatros
scientific name
Diomedea exulans
class
Aves
order
Procellariiformes
family
Diomedeidae
IUCN Red List
VU · vulnerable
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
1,248
GBIF records in NL
27
weight
9.1 kg
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1758

IUCN in Dutch: kwetsbaar. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Diomedeidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 4117, Wikidata Q208682, GBIF 5229302, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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