Family: Diomedeidae (Albatrosses)

Authority: (Forster, 1785)

Red List Category

Criteria: A4bd

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Justification of Red List category

This species is listed as Endangered as data from South Georgia (Georgias del Sur), which holds around half the global population, indicate a very rapid rate of decline of the world population over three generations (90 years), even if colonies lacking trend information are assumed to be stable. The major driver of declines is likely to be incidental mortality in longline fisheries.

Population size: 250000 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 107,000,000 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - oceanic island
Land-mass type - shelf island
Realm - Afrotropical
Realm - Neotropical
Realm - Oceanian
Realm - Antarctic
IUCN System - Terrestrial
IUCN System - Marine