Cf. Snowy Albatross.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 The\u00a0Short-tailed Albatross generally resembles the great albatrosses of the Southern Hemisphere, but they overlap very rarely\u2014only when one wanders into the wrong ocean. \u00a0Like the great albatrosses, Short-tailed has a pink bill and goes through a long series of plumages over many years before reaching its definitive adult plumage.\u00a0 The series differ substantially, but identification generally requires comparison of multiple images because the great albatrosses are confusingly similar and the key details for distinguishing them change with age.<\/p>

Young immature Short-taileds differ from all of the great albatrosses in having all-dark plumage or mostly dark with a paler belly.\u00a0 Subadult Short-taileds differ in having a brown cap and nape with a buffy-orange wash on the face.\u00a0 Adult Short-tailed differs from the great albatrosses in having a mostly buffy-orange head, and in having a distinctive \u201cwings-upon-wings\u201d pattern of white on mostly black upperwings.\u00a0 Among the great albatrosses, only the Snowy Albatross typically shows a buffy wash\u2014on the Snowy, the buffy color is localized around the ear coverts or the side of the neck, not nearly as extensive as on Short-tailed.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t