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Southern royal albatross footprint

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Southern royal albatross footprint

The feet of the largest albatrosses such as the southern royal are impressively big.

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Paul Sagar, Albatrosses – Albatrosses, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/7056/southern-royal-albatross-footprint (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Sagar, published 2 March 2009.