I watched a sooty albatross hovering over the stern.

The name has sometimes been used for the genus Phoebetria as well, but these are correctly called sooty albatrosses.

The sooty albatrosses are small albatrosses from the genus Phoebetria.

Sooty Albatrosses also breed here.

Around 22% of the Sooty Albatrosses survive until adulthood (there are no figures for Light-mantled).

Sooty albatrosses (Phoebetria)

Listen for the mournful calls of light-mantled sooty albatross whose nests are tucked into ledges on the steep sides of the cove.

The Sooty Albatross is a colonial bird; however not to the degree of other Albatrosses, as their colonies usually consist of 50 to 60 pair.

A few White-chinned Petrels and Light-mantled Sooty Albatross nest on the tussock slopes.

The surrounding cliffs of Gold Harbour provide habitat for nesting Light-mantled Sooty Albatrosses, which can often be seen soaring above the beach.

Infinitely graceful light-mantled sooty albatrosses maneuver their eight-foot pearl-gray wings along cliff faces where their single chicks are tucked into grass-grown ledges.

"Pio" is an old sailors' name for the light-mantled sooty albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata), a bird which breeds on Bird Island.

The Sooty Albatross has a dark back and mantle as well, whereas the Light-mantled has an ashy-grey mantle, back and rump.

There are two species, the Sooty Albatross, Phoebetria fusca, and the Light-mantled Albatross, Phoebetria palpebrata.

Of the four genera, the North Pacific albatrosses are considered to be a sister taxon to the great albatrosses, while the sooty albatrosses are considered closer to the mollymawks.

Sooty Albatrosses are a type of Albatross that belong to Diomedeidae family and come from the Procellariiformes order, along with shearwaters, fulmars, storm petrels, and diving petrels.

The fossil species Thalassarche thyridata known from a skull fragment from the Late Miocene of Victoria, Australia shows that the genus had already diverged from the sooty albatrosses 10 mya.

The genus Diomedea formerly included all albatrosses except the sooty albatrosses, but in 1996 the genus was split with the mollymawks and the North Pacific albatrosses both being elevated to separate genera.

The name, applied by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), derives from the Light-mantled Sooty Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata) which breeds on the island.

Birds recorded as breeding on Jacquemart include the Sooty Shearwater, Northern Giant Petrel, Grey-backed Storm-petrel, Light-mantled Sooty Albatross, Brown Skua and Campbell Shag.

The Sooty Albatross, Dark-mantled Sooty Albatross or Dark-mantled Albatross, Phoebetria fusca, is a species of bird in the albatross family.

Three albatross species, the Black-footed Albatross and the two sooty albatrosses, vary completely from the usual patterns and are almost entirely dark brown (or dark grey in places in the case of the Light-mantled Albatross).

Animals known to routinely feed on glacial squid include the Antarctic petrel, light-mantled sooty albatross, Ross seal, southern elephant seal, Weddell seal, Patagonian toothfish, wandering albatross, grey-headed albatross, and the emperor penguin.

On this stunning island we will also see mega herbs which have been regenerated since the removal of sheep in the 70's, and witness other wildlife such as Campbell Island Shags, Light-mantled Sooty Albatross and Sea Lions.

Sooty Albatrosses nest on islands in the South Atlantic (Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island) and islands in the South Indian Ocean (the Crozet Islands to Kerguelen Island).

Sooty Albatross (Phoebetria fusca)

There are two species, the Sooty Albatross, Phoebetria fusca, and the Light-mantled Albatross, Phoebetria palpebrata.

The Sooty Albatross, Dark-mantled Sooty Albatross or Dark-mantled Albatross, Phoebetria fusca, is a species of bird in the albatross family.