Light-mantled albatross-Roetkopalbatros-Phoebetria palpebrata from tail king cat Watch Video
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Description: 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, basedon a specimen from south of the Cape of Good Hope.Light-mantled albatrosses share some identifying features with other Procellariiformes. They have nasal tubes o