---
title: "Northern Royal Albatross"
---

# Northern Royal Albatross

Northern Royal Albatross *Diomedea sanfordi* - globally [Endangered](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/22728323)

 ![Northern Royal Albatross Lois Davis](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/N/Northern_Royal/Northern_Royal_Albatross_-_Lois_Davis.jpg) 

 *Northern Royal Albatross at sea by Lois Page*

 ![Northern Royal Albatross Canterbury Museum Helen Rawlings](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/N/Northern_Royal/Northern_Royal_Albatross_Canterbury_Museum_Helen_Rawlings.jpg)

 *Northern Royal Albatross by Helen Rawlings, from a photograph from Canterbury Museum*

 ![Northern Royal Albatross Laurie Johnson Kitty Harvill](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/N/Northern_Royal/Northern_Royal_Albatross_Laurie_Johnson_Kitty_Harvill.jpg)

 *Northern Royal Albatross by Kitty Harvill, from a* *photograph by Laurie Smaglick Johnson*

 ![Northern Royal Albatross Lea Finke hi res](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/N/Northern_Royal/Northern_Royal_Albatross_Lea_Finke_hi-res.jpg)

 *Northern Royal Albatross by Lea Finke*

 ![Northern Royal Albatross Shary Weckwerth](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/N/Northern_Royal/Northern_Royal_Albatross_Shary_Weckwerth.jpg)

 *Northern Royal Albatross by Shary Weckworth*

 ![Northern Royal Albatross NZ Dept of Conservation Ellyn Lentz ](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/N/Northern_Royal/Northern_Royal_Albatross_NZ_Dept_of_Conservation_Ellyn_Lentz_.jpg)

 *"Be Mine", Northern Royal Albatross*es*by Ellen Lentz*

 *Posted 11 July 2020*