Geoff's Gallery:   Wandering Albatross (6/6)

PROCELLARIIFORMES: Diomedeidae

Diomedea exulans  

The whiteness of the bird in head, neck and back, and the white triangular patches on the inner upper wing suggest an adult bird while the brown wing and slightly smaller size would indicate a probable female Gibsoni Albatross which is one of the two New Zealand races of Wandering Albatross.