Species profile
Brown Gooney
Phoebastria nigripes
Quick answer
W Hawaiian, Izu, Bonin and s Ryukyu islands
- Scientific name
- Phoebastria nigripes
- Family
- Diomedeidae
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Genus
- Phoebastria
- Conservation status
- Near Threatened
Recording Brown Gooney in your journal
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Related species in Diomedeidae
- Aldiomedes angustirostris (Aldiomedes angustirostris)
- Amsterdam Albatross (Diomedea amsterdamensis)
- Antipodean Albatross (Diomedea antipodensis)
- Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos)
- Black-browed albatros (Thalassarche melanophris)
- Buller's Albatross (Thalassarche bulleri)
- Campbell albatross (Thalassarche impavida)
- Chatham Albatross (Thalassarche eremita)