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title: "Laysan Albatross"
description: "Phoebastria immutabilis — Birds. The Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/laysan-albatross
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Laysan Albatross

> Phoebastria immutabilis — Birds. The Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific.

- Scientific name: *Phoebastria immutabilis*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast)
- iNaturalist observations: 3406
- Wikidata: [Q934841](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q934841)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4144](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4144)

## Names

- en: Laysan Albatross
- de: Laysanalbatros
- es: Albatros de Laysan
- fr: Albatros de Laysan
- nl: Laysanalbatros
- pt: Albatroz-de-laysan
- pl: Albatros ciemnolicy

## Countries with the most observations

US (2096), UM (248), MX (127), RU (35), JP (15), CA (4)

## Summary

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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laysan_albatross

## Photo

![Laysan Albatross](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/laysan-albatross/medium.jpg)

Photo: Damien Wallace · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/257762370

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/laysan-albatross?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).