Laysan albatross
phoebastria immutabilis latin

Female Laysan albatrosses bond for life, so they can cooperatively raise their young.

Laysan albatrosses, however, feed heavily on squid, which rise to the ocean surface at night.

The other one, the Laysan Albatross, eats more squids instead.

Like all albatrosses, the Laysan Albatross is known to be a long-living bird.

Laysan Albatrosses have a protracted breeding cycle, and breed annually, although some birds skip years.

The Laysan Albatross has a wide range across the North Pacific with 16 nesting sites.

Of the 2 million Laysan Albatrosses which inhabit Midway, nearly all are found to have plastic in their digestive system.

The Laysan Albatross feeds predominantly on cephalopods, but will also eat fish, crustaceans, and other invertebrates.

The worldwide population of black-footed albatrosses is estimated at 100,000 birds, Laysan albatross population at about 2.5 million.

"Death of a Laysan Albatross Chick."

Midway Atoll is home to two-thirds (1.5 million) of the global population of Laysan Albatross.

A minimum of 2,000 adult/subadult and tens of thousands of Laysan Albatross chicks were lost.

The Laysan Albatross and the Black-footed Albatross have been known to hybridize.

Laysan Albatross (Diomedea immutabilis).

But amid the easy island music and Laura Bush's descriptions of the Laysan albatross ("who mate for life"), the significance of the monument felt buried.

The Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific.

Under the Refuge a rare grass species, Lepturus gasparricensis, is protected and both the black footed and laysan albatrosses have been reintroduced.

It has thousands of Black-footed Albatross, Laysan Albatross as well as shearwaters and terns.

Highlights include a million Laysan albatrosses (aka gooney birds), numerous other seabirds, Hawaiian monk seals, green turtles and spinner dolphins.

Midway: Message from the Gyre (2009-ongoing) A series of photographs depicting rotting carcasses of baby Laysan albatrosses filled with plastic.

The Laysan Albatross' plumage has been compared to that of a gull, two tone with a dark grey mantle and wings, and white underside and head.

The Laysan Albatross is normally a silent bird, but on occasion they may be observed emitting long "moo"-ing sounds, descending whinnies, or rattles.

A female Laysan Albatross known as "Wisdom" is the oldest known wild bird in the United States or the Northern Hemisphere.

The IUCN has classified the Laysan Albatross as vulnerable due to drastic reductions in populations; however recent studies show that the population may be rebounding.

Other notable species are the Laysan Albatross, the highly endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal, and the Green Sea Turtle.

The Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific.

But both had prior experience with albatrosses in the Pacific Ocean and had spent time observing these birds on Midway Island, a major breeding area for laysan (Phoebastria immutabilis) and black-footed (Phoebastria nigripes) albatrosses, two widespread Pacific Ocean species.