Rising Tide Images
See You Later
Returning to land after months, maybe years, and after solitary nomadic wandering over tens of thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean, Laysan albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis) perform elaborate courtship rituals to establish, or reestablish, a life-long monogamous pair bond. These beautiful mōlī spent the morning displaying to each other before leaping off the shoreline escarpment and gliding out to sea.
V460 banded as an adult 4/23/2018 near Mokuleia by USDA/APHIS/WS.
See You Later
Returning to land after months, maybe years, and after solitary nomadic wandering over tens of thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean, Laysan albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis) perform elaborate courtship rituals to establish, or reestablish, a life-long monogamous pair bond. These beautiful mōlī spent the morning displaying to each other before leaping off the shoreline escarpment and gliding out to sea.
V460 banded as an adult 4/23/2018 near Mokuleia by USDA/APHIS/WS.