The Light-mantled Albatross is a graceful sooty-brown albatross of the Southern Ocean with a pale gray mantle and a distinctive white crescent behind the eye. It has appeared very rarely off the Pacific Coast of North America. It is considered by many ornithologists to be the most beautiful of all albatrosses, with flight described as the most elegant of the group.
Habitat
Southern Ocean; very rare vagrant off the Pacific Coast of North America
Diet
Squid and fish caught from the ocean surface
How common
Very rare
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