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Laysan Albatrosses are white-headed birds with dark gray-brown upperwings and mostly white underwings (with variable dark markings). The underparts are clean white. They have a dark patch around the eye. In flight, note the dark back, white rump, and dark tail.
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.
Laysan Albatrosses are numerous, though they face threats from longline fishing, plastic trash in the ocean, and predation by dogs, rats, and cats. Laysan Albatrosses are pelagic birds of the open Pacific Ocean.
Huge, long-winged seabird. Back and upper wings dark, body mostly white. Has dark marks on center of white underwing and U-shaped white pattern across rump. Size. About the size of a Heron. Color. Black, Brown, Gray, White, Yellow. Wing Shape. Long, Narrow, Pointed, Tapered.
A large seabird with very long, narrow wings; much larger than shearwaters and petrels. Unmistakable with white body, dingy pinkish bill, and dark markings on underwing. Fairly common offshore throughout North Pacific, as far north as the Bering Sea.
An inspiring flyer, the Laysan Albatross (known as Mōlī in Hawaiian) can glide over the open ocean for hours at a time without a single flap of its long, narrow wings, sailing hundreds of miles a day on an impressive six-foot span.
The Laysan Albatross is the oldest known wild bird on the planet, an international icon, and still hatching eggs. This year she had her 39th chick. Wisdom sits on her egg on Midway Atoll in January.
Laysan Albatross Life History, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Laysan Albatrosses range across the northern Pacific Ocean from about the latitude of Costa Rica to the Aleutian Islands and southern Bering Sea. They tend to forage in colder, food-rich waters, although they have been found in waters ranging from about 35°F to 79°F.
The Laysan Albatross is a large, long-winged seabird. Its wings are gray-brown above with a varying degree of dark mixed with white below. Its tail is dark, and its head, belly, and rump are all white. Its face is distinctive, with a dark smudge around the eye and a large pale-pinkish bill.
The Laysan albatross, or Phoebastria immutabilis, is a seabird indigenous to the North Pacific region. More than 99% of the global population of the Laysan albatross lives in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It takes its name from the island Laysan, home to one of its largest breeding colonies on Earth.