Light-mantled Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata)
About the Light-mantled Albatross
The light-mantled albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata), also known as the grey-mantled albatross or the light-mantled sooty albatross, is a small albatross in the genus Phoebetria, which it shares with the sooty albatross. The light-mantled albatross was first described as Phoebetria palpebrata by Johann Reinhold Forster, in 1785, based on a specimen from south of the Cape of Good Hope.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed Public Domain / CC0 ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Argentina, France, United Kingdom · xeno-canto lists 11 recordings for this species in total.
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- American Golden PloverPluvialis dominicarecording
- Baird's SandpiperCalidris bairdiirecording
- BananaquitCoereba flaveolarecording
- Barn SwallowHirundo rusticarecording
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticoraxrecording
- BudgerigarMelopsittacus undulatusrecording
These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.