Laysan albatross  (Phoebastria immutabilis)

Range

Most Laysan albatrosses breed on the northwestern Hawaiian Archipelago and off Baja California, and spend the non-breeding season out at sea in the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea (2). Other populations are found in Canada, Japan, Mexico, and Norfolk Island in the Pacific Ocean (1).

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Habitat

This is an open ocean species that comes to land exclusively to breed, at which time it inhabits open sandy or grassy areas (4).