Laysan albatross / Laysanalbatros (Phoebastria immutabilis)

Wikipedia: Laysan albatross Source: OTHER Laysan_Albatross_RWD2.jpg
Classification: Genus Phoebastria; Family Diomedeidae
This bird appears across the great seas in the following continents: North America, Africa.
General: The Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to 99.7% of the population. This small (for its family) gull-like albatross is the second-most common seabird in the Hawaiian Islands, with an estimated population of 2.5 million birds, and is currently expanding (or possibly re-expanding) its range to new islands. The Laysan albatross was first described as Diomedea immutabilis by Lionel Walter Rothschild, in 1893, on the basis of a specimen from Laysan Island.^[3] [more]

🔍 No documented observation