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The Short-tailed Albatross or Steller's Albatross is a large rare seabird from the North Pacific. Although related to the other North Pacific albatrosses, it also exhibits behavioural and morphological links to the albatrosses of the Southern Ocean. It was described by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas from skins collected by the Georg Wilhelm Steller. Once common, it was brought to the...  MORE

The Short-tailed Albatross or Steller's Albatross is a large rare seabird from the North Pacific. Although related to the other North Pacific albatrosses, it also exhibits behavioural and morphological links to the albatrosses of the Southern Ocean. It was described by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas from skins collected by the Georg Wilhelm Steller. Once common, it was brought to the edge of extinction by the trade in feathers, but with protection has recently made a recovery. LESS