🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Black-footed Albatross live?

Phoebastria nigripes has 126,685 records in 15 countries and territories, from 1875 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

AnimaliaChordataAvesProcellariiformesDiomedeidaePhoebastria

When it is recorded

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Peak month: September. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 103,744
Taiwan 4,953
Canada 3,388
United States Minor Outlying Islands 2,046
Japan 1,983
Mexico 1,099
ZZ 421
Russia 72
Chile 2
South Korea 2
Northern Mariana Islands 2
China 1
Ecuador 1
Spain 1
Kiribati 1

Related animals

Others in the family Diomedeidae.

Black-browed Albatross
Black-browed Albatross
328,423 records
Wandering Albatross
Wandering Albatross
176,658 records
Gray-headed Albatross
Gray-headed Albatross
76,260 records
Laysan Albatross
67,460 records
Light-mantled Albatross
Light-mantled Albatross
49,273 records
Royal Albatross
32,515 records
Sooty Albatross
27,323 records
Yellow-nosed Albatross
Yellow-nosed Albatross
12,251 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.