An albatross of Antarctic and subantarctic seas; about 1,000 pairs breed each year on Macquarie Island. It has a dark gray head, lighter gray body, and white crescent around most of the eye.
The head is dark gray and the body is light gray, with a distinctive white crescent surrounding most of the eye.
It usually nests alone, though small colonies occur. It feeds mostly on cephalopods and euphausiids, and spends the nonbreeding period entirely at sea.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.