165 Free Photos of Laysan

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A large group of Laysan ducks (Anas laysanensis) gathers at Catchment

An elderly male Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) with a blue leg band

A juvenile Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) sits in the sun

A white tern (Gygis alba) distracts my subject, a Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)

This field of Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) is somewhere around 50% capacity

A juvenile Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) with a red leg band quacks

108 - LAYSAN ALBATROSS (2-1-11) point arena, mendocino co, ca (2)

Close-up of an adult female Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis)

A juvenile female Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) forages in front of the Chugach office among the fallen nuts

Two juvenile Laysan albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis) observe a sailboat attempting to enter the Refuge

Close-up of an adult male Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis)

Close-up of a juvenile Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis)

A Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) in front of the Volunteer House, where I lived

Close-up of an adult female Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis)

An adult Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) wanders across Eastern Island, surrounded by sooty terns (Onychoprion fuscatus)

An adult female Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) peers through tall grass

Laysan Island sign with Magnificent Frigatebird

Size difference between adult male and female Laysan ducks (Anas laysanensis) and the vagrant female northern pintail

A juvenile Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) on the beach on Eastern Island

An adult female Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) forages in front of the Chugach office among the fallen nuts

An adult female Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) exhibiting the characteristing squinting associated with botulism. This individual was captured, treated, immunized, banded, and re-released.

An adult female Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) exhibits the characteristing squinting associated with botulism. This individual was captured, treated, immunized, banded, and re-released.

A juvenile Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) sits on North Beach under a moonbow (a rainbow formed by moonlight)

PMNM De-tangling an Albatross Chick

Rainbow on Laysan Island-4

Recording health of Laysan ducks

Kūkini's new band

A juvenile Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) sits alone in a field, long after most of the other chicks have fledged. It will likely not survive.

Wisdom is expecting!

Kūkini is 3 months old

WisdomLove11.21.2015 Kiah Walker

PMNM - Nihoa Millerbird on Laysan Island

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Wisdom and Chick 2014

Wisdom on 25Dec15 4

Kūkini stretching

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Juvenile Laysan ducks (Anas laysanensis) swim in a seep on Eastern Island; in the background, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kukui has arrived to translocate some of these ducks to Kure Atoll as part of the species conservation plan

Wisdom's mate Akeakamai with their newest chick. Photo credit: Bob Peyton/USFWS

Wisdom on 25Dec15

PMNM albatross chick and debris

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Monk Seal on Laysan Beach

Brown Noddy on Laysan beach

Wisdom's mate Akeakamai incubating their egg 2017

PMNM-Hawaiian Longfin Anthias at Laysan-GregMcFallNOAA

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Primary colors

2014Wisdom and her egg (December). Photo credit: Greg Joder

Wisdom's Mate 1.21.2016

Mate (left) and Wisdom with egg 28NOV15 2

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Wisdom incubating her egg, December 2018. Photo credit: Madalyn Riley/USFWS Volunteer

Wisdom incubating her egg, December 2018. Photo credit: Madalyn Riley/USFWS Volunteer

A Laysan albatross/black-footed albatross hybrid

PMNM - Albatross Chick And Derelict Net

Wisdom incubating her egg (December 2014). Photo credit: Daniel W. Clark/USFWS

Wisdom incubating her egg (December 2014). Photo credit: Daniel W. Clark/USFWS

Wisdom incubating her egg (December 2014). Photo credit: Daniel W. Clark/USFWS

A black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) (or hybrid Laysan–black-footed, potentially)

A rainbow hangs over the Midway aviary on the morning of the 2014 Laysan duck translocation to Kure Atoll

The sky over Eastern Island is full of birds

A rainbow hangs over the Midway aviary on the morning of the 2014 Laysan duck translocation to Kure Atoll

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The Midway aviary, used as a temporary holding place for Laysan ducks captured for translocation as part of the USFWS Species Recovery Plan

A nesting area near the runway with a particularly high concentration of black-footed albatrosses (Phoebastria nigripes)

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kukui departs Midway with 28 juvenile Laysan ducks that are being translocated to Kure Atoll as part of the USFWS Species Recovery Plan

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NOAA/USFWS field staff on Laysan and Lisianski Islands and Pearl & Hermes Reef, facing two hurricanes and a supertyphoon, are evacuated to Midway Atoll by two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft from U.S. Marine Corps Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163.

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NOAA/USFWS field staff on Laysan and Lisianski Islands and Pearl & Hermes Reef, facing two hurricanes and a supertyphoon, are evacuated to Midway Atoll by two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft from U.S. Marine Corps Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163.

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NOAA/USFWS field staff on Laysan and Lisianski Islands and Pearl & Hermes Reef, facing two hurricanes and a supertyphoon, are evacuated to Midway Atoll by two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft from U.S. Marine Corps Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163.

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NOAA/USFWS field staff on Laysan and Lisianski Islands and Pearl & Hermes Reef, facing two hurricanes and a supertyphoon, are evacuated to Midway Atoll by two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft from U.S. Marine Corps Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163.

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