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Short-tailed Albatross
Phoebastria albatrus
Birdstrong against fish, reptiles
Rare
Swoop
While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).
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Wikapialpha version
Short-tailed Albatross
Phoebastria albatrus
Birdstrong against fish, reptiles
Rare
While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).
Phoebastria albatrus
Photo: © USFWS Endangered Species (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped
Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.
The short-tailed albatross or Steller's albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) is a large rare seabird from the North Pacific. Although related to the other North Pacific albatrosses, it also exhibits behavioural and morphological links to the albatrosses of the Southern Ocean. It was described by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas from skins collected by Georg Wilhelm Steller (after whom its other common name is derived). Once common, it was brought to the edge of extinction by the trade in feathers, but with protection efforts underway since the 1950s, the species is in the process of recovering with an increasing population trend. It is divided into two distinct subpopulations, one of which breeds on Tori-shima in the Izu islands south of Japan, and the other primarily on the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Short-tailed albatross, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Rare.
Every Rare card has 130 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:
How they’re shared out:
DEF 45