Black-footed Albatross Range Map

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Migration

Disperses long distances from tropical or subtropical nesting areas toward productive feeding areas in the North Pacific, typically east-northeast after breeding, then gradually southward.

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Albatrosses(Order: Procellariiformes, Family: Diomedeidae)

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