Photo By/Credit
Laurel Smith/USFWS Date Shot/Created
05/23/2023Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
A female mōlī or Laysan albatross sits on her newly hatched chick at Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge. The unhatched egg outside of the nest indicates that she is part of a female-female pair and both birds laid an egg and one was pushed from the nest.
Ecosystem
Coastal
Species