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Also known as the Laysan Albatross.
From the series of thirty-three prints, Living Endemic Birds of Hawaii, by Marian Berger.
From en.wikipedia.org: "The Laysan Albatross, Phoebastria immutabilis, is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific. This small (for its family) two-tone gull-like albatross is the second most common seabird in the Hawaiian Islands, with an estimated population of 2.5 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, based on a specimen from Laysan Island. Considered vulnerable.
The Moli is the largest seabird in the Pacific region, reaching nearly 3 feet long with a wingspan up to 80 inches and weighing from 5 to 7 pounds. It spends the summer months feeding at sea about 1,000 miles from the Hawaiian Islands and may stay at sea 5 or more years before coming ashore to nest. With long, thin wings, the Moli is expert at gliding, and stays aloft most of the time it is at sea, alighting on the water only to feed or during very calm seas."
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