Black-footed albatross  (Phoebastria nigripes)

Range

Black-footed albatrosses are birds of the northern Pacific Ocean, ranging from the sub-Artic sea southwards beyond the Hawaiian Islands, west as far as the China Sea and east to the North American coast, extending as far south as Baja California (4). This species once nested on many islands in the northern Pacific Ocean but today breeds only on the Hawaiian archipelago, including the Laysan Islands and Midway Island, and in the western Pacific on three Japanese islands (4).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

When not at sea, these albatrosses choose bare slopes and coastlines with little vegetation, or with short turf on which to breed (4).

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