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title: "Short-tailed Albatross"
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# Short-tailed Albatross

Short-tailed Albatross *Phoebastria albatrus* - globally [Vulnerable](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/short-tailed-albatross-phoebastria-albatrus)

 ![Short tailed Albatrosses Kure Cynthia Vanderlip Apple Resonance](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/Short-tailed_Albatrosses_Kure_Cynthia_Vanderlip_Apple_Resonance.jpg) 

 *Female-female pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses on Kure Atoll by Apple Resonance, from a photograph by Cynthia Vanderlip*

 ![Short tailed Albatross Georgia Feild](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/Short-tailed_Albatross_Georgia_Feild.jpg) 

 *Short-tailed Albatross by Georgia Feild*

 ![Short tailed Albatross Laurie Johnson Lucimara Wesolowicz.hiquaL](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/Short-tailed_Albatross_Laurie_Johnson_Lucimara_Wesolowicz.hiquaL.jpg)

  *Female-female pair of Short-tailed Albatrosses on Kure Atoll by Lucimara Wesolowicz, from a photograph by Cynthia Vanderlip*

  ![Short tailed Albatross Dema Clark](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/Short-tailed_Albatross_Dema_Clark.jpg)

 *Short-tailed Albatross by Dema Clark*

 ![Short tailed Albatross Shary Page Weckwerth](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/Short-tailed_Albatross_Shary_Page_Weckwerth.jpg)

 *Short-tailed Albatross by Shary Page Weckwerth*

 ![Short tailed Albatross Lea Finke hi res](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/S/Short_tailed/Short-tailed_Albatross_Lea_Finke_hi-res.jpg)

 *Short-tailed Albatross by Lea Finke*

 *Posted 11 July 2020*