Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758

Albatros paseador, Wandering Albatross

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Aves

Order
Procellariiformes

Family
Diomedeidae

Genus
Diomedea

Species
exulans

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Native

Status

Vulnerable

Distribution

Distribution: Fleming (1950) of one albatross seen off Pinta Island on 17 July 1948. Simeon Habel and Theodore Wolf reported the species to be very abundant on Española

References

  • Fleming, C.A. (1950) Some South Pacific sea bird logs. Emu 49: 169-188.
  • Freile, J.F. Santander, T., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Carrasco, L., Cisneros-Heredia, D., Guevara, E., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Tinoco, B. (2019) Lista Roja de las aves del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador. 97 pp.
  • Harris, M.P. (1973) The Galápagos avifauna. Condor 75(3): 265-278.
  • IUCN (2015) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015-4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 November 2015.
  • Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G. Harris, M.P., Sevilla, C., Huyvaert, K.P. (2016) LONGEVITY RECORDS FOR THE WAVED ALBATROSS Phoebastria irrorata Marine Ornithology: 40: 133-134.
  • Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 2006 2(2): 1-27.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Diomedea exulans", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5079. Accessed 4 April 2026.