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Wandering albatross floating on the ocean surface

Aves · Procellariiformes

Wandering Albatross

Diomedea exulans

Possesses the longest wingspan of any living bird species, exceeding 3.5 meters tip to tip, which lets it lock its wings and glide for days over open-ocean swells without a single wingbeat.

Realm
Marine
Conservation status
VUVulnerable
Data provenance

This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.

Method and version
Evidence snapshot

A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1496 licence-filtered records across 184 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.

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Retained datasets (5)