Short-tailed albatross
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Short-tailed albatross parents feed their chicks partly digested food and stomach oil.
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Short-tailed albatross parents feed their chicks partly digested food and stomach oil.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Short-tailed albatross
- Scientific name
- Phoebastria albatrus
- Japanese name
- アホウドリ
- Group
- Birds
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Diomedeidae
- Genus
- Phoebastria
It raises its chicks on islands such as Torishima, and outside the breeding season it roams widely across the North Pacific.
Its long, narrow wings are built for soaring; it glides over the sea on air currents.
It does not dive; it feeds on squid, fish, shrimp and other prey floating at the surface of the sea.
How the Short-tailed albatross lives
It forages by day and possibly by night. It forages alone or in groups. In Alaska, it sometimes follows fishing vessels.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife ServiceBasic data
- Diet
- Squid, crustaceans and various fishes
- Conservation status in Japan
- Vulnerable (VU)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, 5th Red List (2026)
Where the Short-tailed albatross has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アホウドリ
- 简体中文
- 短尾信天翁
- 繁體中文
- 短尾信天翁
- 한국어
- 짧은꼬리알바트로스
- Español
- Albatros de cola corta
- Français
- Albatros à queue courte
- Deutsch
- Kurzschwanzalbatros
- Português (Brasil)
- Albatroz-de-cabeça-amarela
- Italiano
- Albatro codacorta
- العربية
- قطرس قصير الذيل
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Albatros ekor-pendek
- Tiếng Việt
- Hải âu lớn đuôi ngắn
- Русский
- Белоспинный альбатрос
- Türkçe
- Alaca Albatros
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 観光庁 地域観光資源の多言語解説文データベース — 小笠原丸 カツオドリ、アホウドリなどの海鳥Checked: 2026-11-03
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service — Short-tailed AlbatrossChecked: 2026-11-03
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, 5th Red List (2026)Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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