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 1.18 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]
^BirdLife International (2018). "Phoebastria immutabilis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22698365A132643073. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22698365A132643073.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
The Laysanalbatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to 99...
laying to fledging, with a single egg laid in each breeding attempt. A Laysanalbatross, named Wisdom, on Midway Island is the oldest-known wild bird in the...
most tropical of the albatrosses, with two species (the Laysan and black-footed albatrosses) nesting in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, one on sub-tropical...
named after the ubiquitous "Gooney birds" (albatrosses), in this case LaysanAlbatross and Black-footed Albatross. The location of Midway in the Pacific became...
the two albatross species found in Hawaii, the black-footed albatross takes mostly fish, while the Laysan feeds mainly on squid. The albatrosses in general...
The Laysan rail or Laysan crake (Zapornia palmeri) was a flightless bird endemic to the Northwest Hawaiian Island of Laysan. This small island was and...
in the world, and Midway Atoll has the largest breeding colony of Laysanalbatross in the world. The American Birding Association currently excludes the...
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World War homing pigeon awarded the Dickin Medal Wisdom, a wild female Laysanalbatross. She is the oldest confirmed wild bird in the world as well as the...
order to feed. In Laysan, a Laysanalbatross chick waits for its parent to return with food along neighbouring Black-footed albatross chicks, but their...
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demonstrated via mark-recapture data. For example, more than 99% of Laysanalbatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) in a study returned to exactly the same nest...
they are able to fly. The amount of parental care after fledging varies; albatross chicks leave the nest on their own and receive no further help, while...
largest wingspans of any extant birds. Salvin's albatross, Thalassarche salvini (V) VU Laysanalbatross, Phoebastria immutabilis (En) NT (99% of the total...
consumed such materials. Scientists studying the stomach contents of Laysanalbatross chicks report a 40% mortality rate before fledging. When the stomach...
and Laysan finch, the Laysan duck (the "rarest native waterfowl in the United States"), and the Nihoa fan palm. Other notable species are the Laysan albatross...
where albatrosses breed, together with a list of the species found at each location. Bonin Islands - black-footed, Laysan French Frigate Shoals - Laysan, black-footed...
This bolus from a Hawaiian albatross (either a black-footed albatross or a Laysanalbatross) has several ingested flotsam items, including monofilament...
some of the more aerial species (including swifts, swallows, terns and albatrosses) preen while flying. Many birds have a slight overhang at the tip of...
choice in this family. For black-footed (Phoebastria nigripes) and Laysanalbatrosses (P. immutabilis) there are ten described parts to their mating dance...
Seabirds known to be at Kure in one survey: Black-footed Albatross (Diomedea nigripes) LaysanAlbatross (Diomedea immutabilis) Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Pufinus...
million) of the global population of Laysanalbatross, and one-third of the global population of black-footed albatross. Each seabird species has specific...
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