A regular pelagic species along the shelf break, which lies approximately 60 miles west of St. Paul Island and 25 miles south of St. George Island, this species is very rarely observed from land with only a few sightings from land on St. Paul Island since the mid-1990s. This is the most common albatross species […]
Category: Albatrosses (Diomedeidae)
Black-footed Albatross
This species is very rarely recorded near the Pribilofs though it is likely regular during summer and early fall in offshore waters along the shelf break to the west and south of the islands. The few sightings from shore are during the summer months, with only two sightings from land on St. Paul Island. […]
Short-tailed Albatross
This species was once an uncommon-to-common visitor to the waters around the Pribilofs, and regularly seen from shore, though the overall decline in this species has made it now the least likely albatross to be observed from, or near, the Pribilof Islands. Most known records are from July-October, though there are records from the spring […]